 EXILED HOPE Releases Lyric Video For “Behold My Shattered Skies” Watch “Behold My Shattered Skies” HERE Critically acclaimed gothic power metal artist EXILED HOPE, has revealed a lyric video for “Behold My Shattered Skies”. The song is taken from Apocrypha, which was released on all streaming platforms on April 11, 2025. “Behold My Shattered Skies” is a standout track on Apocrypha, with a sound that blends both folk metal and 70s rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac with a cinematic quality. Sofia comments, “Behold My Shattered Skies” is very different from the rest of the album because it’s a purely acoustic folk song (with extra synth layers for ambience). This song is an outlet for my spooky folk influences, which is a genre that I love almost as much as metal. This song was strongly inspired by the soundtrack to The Witcher 3, drawing from “Ladies Of The Woods” and “Priscilla’s Song”. I took it as another opportunity to add a soundtrack-style feel to the album and to remind listeners that my influences venture beyond even all the various metal subgenres.” Watch the video HERE: https://youtu.be/oHTXQMcN9mQ Order Apocrypha HERE: https://exiledhope.bandcamp.com/album/apocrypha-2 Listen on all streaming platforms HERE: https://linktr.ee/exiledhope  About EXILED HOPE: Multi-instrumentalist Sofia Frasz established EXILED HOPE in 2019, and draws musical inspiration from the likes of AVANTASIA, NIGHTWISH, KAMELOT and CRADLE OF FILTH to name a few. EXILED HOPE’s releases all take place in the same fictional universe and combine to form a dark fantasy metal opera. Each album centers on a character dealing with both an internal and external conflict in this world, and the lyrics explore how they navigate those conflicts. This is intended to provide some kind of escapism through the lyrical world building, while still keeping the songs grounded in real, relatable emotions despite their fantastical setup. EXILED HOPE is working towards the next album, Apocrypha, due to be released April 11th, 2025. Through EXILED HOPE, Sofia has composed music for two short films, Hallowed Paths and What Happens After Midnight, and has collaborated with UK melodeath outfit STEEL FORGE. EXILED HOPE is: Sofia Frasz – all instruments and all vocals https://music.apple.com/us/artist/exiled… https://exiledhope.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ExiledHope https://www.instagram.com/legally_metal/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/024Bd5Vi... https://www.tiktok.com/@exiled.hope https://x.com/exiledhope99 https://www.youtube.com/@exiledhope Track Listing: The Summoning The Day Will Come Blood Of The Ancients Dreamwalker (Feat Metal Matt) Over For You Altar Of Moloch feat Imperator Mortem The Silence Is Deafening Behold My Shattered Skies Deathslayer Lightborn Remnants Forbidden Majesties |
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Hard Rock Band Ginger Evil Drop New Single
If you’re looking for Halestorm meets ‘Foo Fighters meets Fleetwood Mac, Ginger Evil are right in your wheelhouse. Their new single of off their latest album “The Way It Burns” has soul, blues, jazz, and southern rock flavors that died out sadly in the 1970s. The new wave of this Rock is back in 2025 with some killer offers, and Ginger Evil is a catalyst!
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Finnish female-fronted rock sensations Ginger Evil are pleased to unveil their new single and official lyric video “Better Get In Line”, taken from their debut album, “The Way It Burns”, out now via Frontiers Music Srl.
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The band described the themes of the new track:
“Better Get In Line” tells everything essential that is wrong in the world and what is wrong with people. We are now witnessing democratic countries taking their first steps towards dictatorships, led by multimillionaires who are blinded by their own greed and needs. People who care about nothing but themselves and their own delusional reality. Can’t we prevent this? Everyone needs to make personal choices to ensure that such things do not thrive in any country. Small actions have a big impact when the group is large enough. Do we want to gamble with our future?”
Ginger Evil began as Moonshine Inc. in 2005, in a rehearsal room in Helsinki, Finland. After a couple of years of rehearsal and composing, a fruitless search for a singer meant the songs were put on ice.
Meanwhile, guitarist Tomi Julkunen and bassist Veli Palevaara continued gigging in Finland with The Milestones, including arena shows with Deep Purple and Whitesnake. In the aftermath of their fifth album, those Moonshine Inc. songs from a decade back emerged from hibernation, so the search began again for a vocalist.
The powerful voice of Ella Tepponen was known to Tomi and Veli from many theatre and music projects, and drummer Toni Mustonen was already familiar to everyone. Jamming together found a shared musical passion, and a group creative process soon flourished. Ginger Evil was born.
“From Foo Fighters to Fleetwood Mac”, is how the band hears their music, with singer Ella bringing a whole new kind of twist to their rock expression. Once the band got together and songs were taking shape, on board jumped music producer and film director Richard Stanley, known for his work with The Who and John Lennon, heard demos of Ginger Evil and was inspired to co-write lyrics.
In 2022 Ginger Evil signed a deal with Frontiers Music Srl. (Def Leppard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, TOTO, Whitesnake, Skunk Anansie). Debut album “The Way It Burns” was released on February 14, 2025. Organic and fresh sounding album was something that rock fans had been waiting for since the 90’s; something familiar, something new, something that got their asses shaking once more!
“The Way It Burns” Tracklist:
1. Rainmaker
2. Dead On Arrival
3. Shame Old
4. Flames
5. Hands Move To Midnight
6. Arrowhead
7. Better Get In Line
8. Black Waves
9. Whispers
10. Not Your Fool
11. Last Frontier
12. Wake Me
Line Up:
Ella Tepponen – vocals
Tomi Julkunen – guitars
Veli Palevaara – bass
Toni Mustonen – drums
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