– November nineteenth, 2024 –
Band To Reissue “Awakening From Dukkha” And “Knowledge Eyes” Full-Size Albums + New Video Now Enjoying
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Steel Blade Information is happy to welcome Inside Mongolian steel collective NINE TREASURES to its esteemed roster.
Thanks to a few acclaimed albums, hundreds of thousands of streams, and European excursions and festivals (Wacken Open Air, Woodstock Poland, and so on), steel heroes NINE TREASURES are nicely on their method to undertaking their objective of a Mongolian steel revolution. Shaped by vocalist/guitarist Askhan Avagchuud in 2010 within the autonomous area of Inside Mongolia in China, NINE TREASURES are a novel mixture of heavy steel and conventional Mongolian instrumentation, using each typical vocals and Mongolian throat singing. Guitars, bass, and drums collide with indigenous string devices together with the balalaika and the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), leading to a sonic kaleidoscope that follows no set template. Enjoying one-hundred-plus pageant exhibits and headlining gigs per 12 months in Asia, to audiences of as much as 50,000, NINE TREASURES are on the prime of their sport.
Feedback Askhan Avagchuud (guitars, vocals, balalaika, tovshuur), “We’re excited to be on Steel Blade. We’ve at all times been impressed by heavy American and European bands. America and Europe are crucial for us to tour and create a relationship with Steel music followers from these international locations we admire.”
NINE TREASURES has practically accomplished an epic new file, greater than 5 years within the making, which is able to drop on Steel Blade subsequent 12 months. Within the meantime, the band will re-release the twelve-song compilation album Awakening From Dukkha in addition to a remaster of 2017′s Knowledge Eyes.
Awakening From Dukkha collects re-recorded songs from NINE TREASURES‘ three studio LPs, 2012′s Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor, 2013′s 9 Treasures and 2017 Knowledge Eyes. The band’s evolution has been profound. “We experimented loads and thru our total journey, we felt like we have been getting higher with every album,” Askhan says. “However the primary vibe for us has at all times been the identical, which was the pentatonic jap music combined with heavy steel. We don’t do half step notes usually, that’s why the vitality is comparable all through all of our albums.”
That stated, the brand-new music on the as-yet-untitled 2025 LP will likely be a large step for the band, because the frontman explains, “This new album is completely different from any of our previous releases. We added centered manufacturing element and advanced the best way we write music. We’re centered on large riffs and galvanizing moments that take our viewers on a journey; that’s a part of the custom we grew up in.”
The band takes its identify from a bunch of objects referenced in historical Mongolian folklore, NINE TREASURES contact on the mythology and fairy tales of their homeland. Askhan, a practising Buddhist, is intent on utilizing their music to carry consolation, and ease the struggling of others. “I need to share the teachings I’ve discovered with folks like me who’ve skilled anxiousness or life struggles who search refuge and therapeutic in music,” Askhan says. “We wish NINE TREASURES to carry optimistic and galvanizing vitality into the world – the best factor we will do with that is to encourage folks.”
Watch a video for NINE TREASURES‘ “Knowledge Eyes” HERE.
The reissues of Awakening From Dukkha and Knowledge Eyes will likely be launched digitally on January tenth, 2025.
Awakening From Dukkha (Re-Recorded) Observe Itemizing:
01. Black Coronary heart
02. Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor
03. Fable Of Mangas
04. Nomin Dalai
05. Tes River’s Hymn
06. Ten Years
07. The Dream About Historic Metropolis
08. Reward For Superb Horse
09. The Finish Of The World
10. Knowledge Eyes
11. The Cussed
12. Three Years Previous Warrior
Knowledge Eyes (Remastered) Observe Itemizing:
01. Ten Years
02. The Finish Of The World
03. My Hulunbuir
04. Knowledge Eyes
05. Hushuu Baby
06. Us
07. Gown Of Prince
08. Don’t Need To Dance
09. The Cussed
NINE TREASURES:
Askhan Avagchuud – guitars, vocals, balalaika, tovshuur
Orgil – bass, backing vocals
Saina – balalaika, backing vocals, guitars
Namra – drums
Nars – morin khuur, backing vocals
NINE TREASURES Discography:
十丈铜嘴 Arvan Ald Guulin Honshoor (2012)
9 Treasures (2013)
Knowledge Eyes (2017)
Awakening From Dukkha (2021)
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