Ogre - Sign To Cruz Del Sur Music, New Album In October
Portland, Maine long-running doomers Ogre have joined Cruz Del Sur Music roster, and will unleash their fifth studio album this October, titled Thrice As Strong. The album was tracked with Rowan Bishop at Garage Mahal Recording in Westbrook, Maine. More details to follow.
"Once we started working on this album, we posted a few messages on social media, reaching out to any potential labels that might be interested in working with us this time around," says guitarist Ross Markonish. "Will started up a correspondence with Butch Balich from Argus who then put us in touch with Tom Phillips of While Heaven Wept, who works closely with Enrico. We played with While Heaven Wept years ago at a doom festival in Rochester, New York and we've also shared the stage with other Cruz artists, including Argus and Apostle Of Solitude, so we couldn't be happier to share a label with all those great bands, not to mention Slough Feg, another favorite!"
"When we first started working on this album, our original plan was to try to keep song lengths down a bit," Markonish continues. "Reason being, our prior albums all featured at least one song in the 10-15-minute range, never mind our concept album, Plague Of The Planet, which consists of a single, 37-minute song! While that proved difficult (a couple songs on this album stretch into the 8-minute range), it still did inform our general approach to songwriting this time around.
"I would also say that there is a bit more of an '80s metal influence on these tracks - some Maiden, a little Dio perhaps, and also some of the more underground bands of the time, like Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road. Rowan even said he heard a little Mercyful Fate on some of the songs! The way I put it to someone, while our prior albums were majorly influenced by '70s-era Pentagram, this one shares some of its sound and ethos with the Victor Griffin '80s line-up that produced the Relentless and Day Of Reckoning albums."
"Once we started working on this album, we posted a few messages on social media, reaching out to any potential labels that might be interested in working with us this time around," says guitarist Ross Markonish. "Will started up a correspondence with Butch Balich from Argus who then put us in touch with Tom Phillips of While Heaven Wept, who works closely with Enrico. We played with While Heaven Wept years ago at a doom festival in Rochester, New York and we've also shared the stage with other Cruz artists, including Argus and Apostle Of Solitude, so we couldn't be happier to share a label with all those great bands, not to mention Slough Feg, another favorite!"
"When we first started working on this album, our original plan was to try to keep song lengths down a bit," Markonish continues. "Reason being, our prior albums all featured at least one song in the 10-15-minute range, never mind our concept album, Plague Of The Planet, which consists of a single, 37-minute song! While that proved difficult (a couple songs on this album stretch into the 8-minute range), it still did inform our general approach to songwriting this time around.
"I would also say that there is a bit more of an '80s metal influence on these tracks - some Maiden, a little Dio perhaps, and also some of the more underground bands of the time, like Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road. Rowan even said he heard a little Mercyful Fate on some of the songs! The way I put it to someone, while our prior albums were majorly influenced by '70s-era Pentagram, this one shares some of its sound and ethos with the Victor Griffin '80s line-up that produced the Relentless and Day Of Reckoning albums."
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