APOCÆLYPSE makes its presence known today with the release of the band’s debut album, FÆNIX. Led by acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ira Black (Vio-Lence, Lizzy Borden, Metal Church), APOCÆLYPSE marks the highly anticipated album’s arrival with a brand new music video for “FÆNIX…OUT OF FLAMES.”
Stream/Purchase FÆNIX: https://vyd.co/Faenix
“FÆNIX…OUT OF FLAMES” MUSIC VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKAKBJ7aKM
Built around themes of perseverance, rebirth and confronting the forces that threaten to consume us, FÆNIX introduces APOCÆLYPSE with a commanding collision of modern metal muscle, memorable hooks and cinematic ambition. Across the album, the band moves between deeply personal subject matter and a broader examination of an increasingly fractured world, channeling both into songs designed to hit with equal parts weight and purpose.
Mixed and mastered by Chris Collier (Korn, Whitesnake), “FÆNIX…OUT OF FLAMES” provides a fitting centerpiece for the record and its underlying message. Pairing towering riffs and melodic intensity with the album’s recurring ideas of transformation and survival, the track captures the spirit behind FÆNIX: emerging from destruction changed, but stronger.
The album arrives with APOCÆLYPSE already building considerable momentum. Debut single “INTELL-I-GENTS” continues its ascent on the Billboard and Mediabase radio charts, expanding the band’s reach following a breakout introduction that quickly put the new project on the metal world’s radar. Its cinematic music video has also amassed more than 1.4 million views.
Where “INTELL-I-GENTS” confronts the increasingly complicated relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence, follow-up single “BLACK BOX” revealed a far more personal side of Black’s songwriting. The song examines survival, trauma and the process of facing the experiences that shape us rather than keeping them buried.
Together, those songs helped establish the wide emotional and conceptual territory explored throughout FÆNIX. The album combines the experience of veteran musicians with the urgency of a band beginning an entirely new chapter, moving between aggression, melody and atmosphere without losing sight of its central theme: the ability to endure, evolve and rise again.
FÆNIX was spearheaded by Ira Black, whose decades-long career has included work with Vio-Lence, Lizzy Borden and Metal Church among others. The APOCÆLYPSE lineup is completed by Black’s son Ira Black IV on guitar, Matt Snell on bass and Lonny Pasillas on drums.
With FÆNIX now unleashed, APOCÆLYPSE transforms its early momentum into a full-length statement of intent and one rooted in classic heavy metal power while pushing toward something distinctly its own.
FÆNIX is OUT NOW.
FÆNIX – Track List:
1. INTELL-I-GENTS
2. BLACK BOX
3. LOVE TO HATE
4. HATE RESPONSE
5. THE LAMB & THE GOAT
6. THE AMERICAN WAY
7. MIND’S EYE
8. GRAVITY GAME
9. BLACK SUNDAY
10. FÆNIX…OUT OF FLAMES
“INTELL-I-GENTS”
MUSIC VIDEO
“BLACK BOX”
MUSIC VIDEO
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