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Following up on the triumphant “A Sign In The Noise”, launched on the finish of 2021, PRIEST, the synthwave act that includes former members of the Grammy Award-winning Swedish rock act GHOST, has simply unleashed a follow-up single, “Techno Lady”. The monitor trades the distorted guitars of PRIEST‘s former gig for icy synths and throbbing drums to craft a memorably melodic ode to feminine badassery.
To advertise the music, the band determined to create its greatest, most elaborate music video up to now, collaborating with in-demand filmmaker and videographer Vicente Cordero (Industrialism Movies), who has helmed movies by CRADLE OF FILTH, SKOLD, 3TEETH, QUEENSRŸCHE and others. Cordero pulls out all of the stops for “Techno Lady”, saturating the display with neon colours and retro graphics to convey the music’s central character to life, an ass-kicking, online game enjoying, motorbike driving, gun toting renegade who has no downside holding her personal in Cordero‘s quasi-futuristic hyper-violent world. The video showcases the cinematic high quality of PRIEST‘s sound, which has already been tapped by main Hollywood producers for inclusion within the upcoming Mel Gibson film “Sizzling Seat”.
Because the bandmembers themselves declare: “It is a hi-octane bop with immediate hooks that scores the futuristic mindscape of PRIEST. Vicente masterfully realizes that imaginative and prescient and we solely want we made the music longer so we may see extra of it. Strap your belt on correctly and revel in ‘Techno Lady’!”
PRIEST will embark on a European tour, “Eurotour 2022”, with particular visitors SJÖBLOM and CRAVEN, on the finish of March.
Hailing from the identical icy darkness of the Scandinavian inland that birthed GHOST, PRIEST consists of a trio of musicians — vocalist Mercury, who was generally known as Water when he performed bass for GHOST, keyboardist Salt, previously generally known as GHOST keyboardist Air, and programmer/ keyboardist Sulfur — who got here collectively in 2017 and began releasing their very own distinctive brew of digital music that bears little sonic resemblance to their former band but nonetheless shares the identical inventive DNA. However whereas GHOST borrowed their theatrics from old style horror and ’80s rock, PRIEST comes steeped in cyberpunk and industrial music.
PRIEST‘s upcoming full-length album, due later within the yr through Cleopatra Data, was produced by one other GHOST alumni, Simon Söderberg (GHOST guitarist and producer/engineer of debut album “Opus Eponymous”).
In 2020, PRIEST launched a brand new album referred to as “Cyberhead”, the follow-up to its debut, “New Flesh”. “Cyberhead” was the primary album since unique singer Tom Åsberg (also referred to as Ginger Khan) left the band to pursue different initiatives. PRIEST mastermind Linton Rubino has taken over on vocals, that are carried out by a masked character they name Mercury.
Again in 2017, GHOST chief Tobias Forge was sued by 4 former members of the band after being dismissed by the group’s founder the earlier December. They accused the singer of dishonest them out of their rightful share of the income from the band’s album releases and world excursions. The lawsuit was filed within the district court docket of Linköping, Sweden, the place GHOST was initially based mostly. It claimed {that a} partnership settlement existed between Forge and the 4 former members, all of whom carried out anonymously within the band as Anonymous Ghouls. Because of the lawsuit, Forge was compelled to disclose his identification after years of performing in a masks as Papa Emeritus. He has maintained that “no authorized partnership” ever existed between him and the opposite members.
In Might 2018, Linton, who performed bass dwell in GHOST from 2013 to 2014 within the function of the Anonymous Ghoul Water, blasted the band’s 2018 album “Prequelle”, saying he was “ashamed to have been a part of that” and calling the music “a joke” and “mainstream shit.”
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