Stockholm-based heavy metal band IGNITED is set to release its second full-length album, Cradle of the Wicked. The follow-up to 2019’s “Steelbound” will be out on October 27.
The band has also revealed the cover artwork and track listing for “Cradle of the Wicked” (shown below).
“Cradle of the Wicked” was recorded, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden by Fredrik Nordström. Additional engineering and edits by Robert Kukla. Songwriting on “Cradle of the Wicked” by Dalton Castro, Martin Bellucci, Maurício Velasco. The album was recorded in August 2022.
Cradle of the Wicked – track listing:
1) Cradle of the Wicked
2) The Overflow
3) At the Damned’s Hall
4) Bloody Satisfied
5) Uncontrollable
6) The Sewer Lords
7) Life Goes By
8) Nightshift
9) Tearing Down the Walls
10) Abyss of Fear
At the beginning of 2017, the band started working on a proposal to play an energetic heavy metal as straightforwardly as possible and then the first songs got into shape, which turned into the pre-production of the first album.
“Steelbound” was recorded in August 2019 in São Paulo, Brazil, produced by Thiago Bianchi (Noturnall/ex-Shaman), and the artwork was designed by Gustavo Sazes (Arch Enemy/British Lion/Machine Head).
The album was released digitally on November 1st and played live during the band’s first concert as one of the opening acts for the band Noturnall, featuring Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) in Porto Alegre, Brazil (Bar Opinião) and also in another gig in February of the next year, right before the pandemic took place. After being made available on digital platforms along with a video clip for the song “Ignition” and a lyric video for the song “Times” in the same year, the band got a distribution deal for a physical CD release in 2020 through Voice Music Records. The promotion was handled by the band and PR agencies.
Denis Lima – Vocals (Brazil)
Dalton Castro – Guitars (Stockholm – Sweden)
Martin Bellucci – Bass (London – UK)
Maurício Velasco – Drums (Brazil)
“Steelbound” has reached more than 200.000 streams on Spotify and more than 100.000 on YouTube so far, having an excellent acceptance by the audience in many countries.
In the same year, the band participated in online festivals like Heresy Metal Festival idealized by Argentinian metalheads, and also worked on the production of a live album called Steelive and an acoustic version of the song “Times,” exploring different sounds than previously done in the debut album. Also, a guitar playthrough for the song Roaring Gears was released and promoted.
In 2021 another music video for the song “Living In The Dark” was released by the band and got some promotion as well made by a European PR agency this time, and marketing actions like in the previous releases were made. In April 2022, the live album came out after the acoustic version, and Martin Bellucci was introduced as their new bass player.
The band worked together on the second album pre-production during the first semester of 2022. In August landed in Gothenburg, Sweden to record at Studio Fredman with the production of Fredrik Nordström (Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Dream Evil), having a Swedish production at its finest. A new video clip was produced by Bravo & Bravo Films (Soilwork, The Night Flight Orchestra, H.E.A.T), and the album artwork and design are handled again by Gustavo Sazes.
Ignited was born in the South of Brazil, Balneário Camboriú, and is now based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Source: ClawHammer PR
SKELETONWITCH released their second full studio album with Prosthetic Records, Breathing the Fire, on October 13, 2009. I could not resist the Metal temptation and need of picking up this new CD on my visit to f.y.e. today. As I stood there staring at the hellish and downright evil artwork on the front cover of Breathing the Fire, it dawned on me… the Metal wait is over for this new Skeletonwitch. Yeah, very often enough I want my Metal pretty damned fast and extreme in every musical facet. All twelve songs on this album are extremely worthy, I can’t point out any skip overs whatsoever. Skeletonwitch does not fall short of Extreme Metal – every song on Breathing the Fire is blended with the very best of several Metal genres.
Today I found myself in another one of those funks, where the melancholy feelings just won’t subside. So, earlier tonight, I turned to music, Metal Music, to settle my thoughts, nerves and soul. I chose to listen to Entombed, Wolverine Blues. Released back in 1993, on Earache/Columbia Records, I find it startling that this album is around seventeen years old already. An excellent listening choice I made, Entombed was the Metal elixir and their album Wolverine Blues was the Metal prescription that served me right tonight. Entombed delivers their original style of Death Metal or Death N’ Roll with Wolverine Blues, it is as groove charged as it is sinister. With each listen, I can still hear some Thrash Metal being fused within Entombed’s songs on this album. In a Metal nutshell, Entombed covers some ground with Extreme Metal genres. This is one hell of a heavy and hard album, the righteous Metal remedy for curing my blues – let me tell you. Lyrically, there is no bashfulness to be found when it comes to topics and imagery on Wolverine Blues. The combination of the aggressive lyrics and Death N’ Roll charge makes this album sound like it belongs on top of the Metal heap in 2009.
As a life long Metalhead, whenever you see a Heavy Metal Band crack the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart it is cause for Metal celebration. With that said, whenever I witness an Extreme Metal Band crack this same album chart, well, the world suddenly becomes a better place indeed. Step in The Black Dahlia Murder… please. Their newest album – Deflorate, (Metal Blade Records), debuted at #43 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart the week of September 15, 2009. (12,000 units were sold in the first week of this albums release). YEAH! In the midst of dozens of bubble gum – Pop Music new releases, there arises… The Black Dahlia Murder. Let this debut week showing of this incredible band and album, be a Metal reminder to the commercial Pop/Elevator Music world, that Extreme Music lurks around every corner, back road, corn field, city street and CD aisle. Earlier this year, Cannibal Corpse cracked this same Billboard Top 200 Album Chart as well, I see an Extreme Metal pattern of awareness starting to develop here in 2009. Metal Odyssey is Extreme Metal proud of The Black Dahlia Murder, (and still damn Metal proud of Cannibal Corpse too). Real music… Metal Music. All of us Metalheads and the Metal Bands we follow are not going away anytime soon… METAL RULES.
Alright, I am more than thrilled at this new Obituary album, “Darkest Day”, I am enthralled with Metal jubilation. Death Metal jubilation. I am also reminded as to why I am lured into the heaviest, most Metal bludgeoning genre there is… it is Obituary. These guys are not about making nice with the trend setters… forget about it. Obituary is Old School Death Metal lathered with extreme. Understand, however, that Obituary delivers grooves by the Death Metal bushels. From it’s deadly beginning track – “List of Dead” to it’s deadly ending “Left To Die”, I am going out on a Metal limb here by stating… “Darkest Day” is one of 2009’s best Metal albums period. Being one of the true forefathers of the Death Metal genre, Obituary lays their Death Metal cards out on the table here, you either are with them or with them. This is not a Death Metal band that you just want to try out, if you buy an Obituary album, you are either a fan or your about to become one. 
I am Metal psyched about another great Metal album coming out in this month of September of 2009, Children of Bodom – Skeletons In The Closet
I cannot wait to get my hands on this new album and crank it up extremely loud, on September 23, 2009, I will. I am just very curious as to how the Britney Spears cover of Oooops! I Did It Again… is going to sound like. What about the Kenny Rogers song? Man, that should be a Metal hoot. Knowing the way Children of Bodom play their Metal, I am confident they will rage these songs into Extreme Metal bliss. Still, I cannot believe I am writing about Britney Spears, Kenny Rogers and Children of Bodom in the same post. One thing is for sure here, Children of Bodom can never be accused of not being diversified. The cover songs represent a darn cool list of bands here… Slayer, W.A.S.P., Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Scorpions, Ramones – these are legendary bands without question. Thank you, Finland, for the fine Metal export they call Children of Bodom.
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