NOTHNEGAL: Songwriting For New Album Completed

December 3, 2009

Maldivian metallers NOTHNEGAL have issued the following update:

"Guess it's time for an update on the developments on our upcoming album. We have completed writing all songs that would appear on it and currently in studio going through the recording process and even though we have been working on these songs since last July we are still perfecting/fine-tuning them to make sure we achieve what we are really looking for.

"We focused mostly on creating a more unique sound which differentiates us more and the result turned out to be almost something completely different from what we had with 'Antidote of Realism' EP, but we still managed to keep the melodic keyboard elements intact while getting them to sound darker and epic than before.

"We have nine songs completed for the album and they have some really heavy/thrashy/groovy riffs, with Kevin [Talley; DAATH, MISERY INDEX, CHIMAIRA] keeping the drums aggressive and technical while Marco [Sneck; POISONBLACK, KALMAH, CHARON] has the keyboards dark and yet melodic.

"We are very excited about everything and impressed with outcome of the combined effort from our new lineup and the material we are coming up with this time. The songs contain a little bit of everything from thrash metal, groove metal, death metal to black metal and doom so we believe that the material is quite diverse as well. Apart from that, we have also incorporated some atmospheric ambient sounds/noises in the songs which are unique to the Maldivian environment.

"A track from the new album album will be available for streaming on our MySpace soon and as you may have noticed, the MySpace layout have been updated a bit since we thought it needed that. But it will soon be updated again with the brand new album artwork theme which is done by our friend Aaron Marsh of Sons of Nero who have done some killer art for some of the best bands out there.

"As for the release schedule, it is yet unknown. But keep checking our MySpace for more updates on the album and the band."

NOTHNEGAL's "Antidote of Realism" EP was self-released by the band earlier this year. The CD was produced by Anssi Kippo, who has previously worked with CHILDREN OF BODOM and NORTHER, among others.

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