AATR PREMIER HEIDRA “Cloaks And Daggers” official video

10th April 2023 0 By Jon Deaux

Roughly one year after releasing their latest album “To Hell Or Kingdom Come”, Danish Viking-inspired melodic metallers HEIDRA are back with a new video. “Cloaks And Daggers” – one of the most melodic death metal songs in the whole record – is displayed with a series of live-captured images that show all Heidra’s firepower on stage.

Heidra is a Copenhagen-based metal band playing a mix of melodic, black, and power metal with folk-themed undertones, powerful choruses, and brutal growls. The band was formed in 2006 and has been steadily growing in strength, songwriting, and as a live performing band over the years. Heidra released their debut EP “Sworn to Vengeance” in 2012 which was followed by the band’s first full-length album “Awaiting Dawn” in 2014.

These two critically acclaimed releases pushed Heidra forward and landed the band a series of concerts, including two smaller international tours with bands such as Ektomorf, Infest, and Noctem, a Danish tour and support concerts in Denmark for folk metal giants Korpiklaani.

In 2016 the band was given a support slot on a full European tour in support of Ensiferum and Fleshgod Apocalypse. This propelled the band, literally and figuratively onto the international stage and opened the door to many new fans and new friendships. At the conclusion of the tour work began in earnest to a follow-up album, expanding upon and continuing the epic narrative begun on “Awaiting Dawn”. “The Blackening Tide” was recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered in 2017, being released in the following year. Following the release, Heidra once again set out to conquer Europe, supporting Omnium Gatherum on their European tour in the fall of 2019.

2020 became the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and, as most actual band activities had been stopped in their tracks, Heidra began working on their third studio album, “To Hell or Kingdom Come” – an album that would complete their trilogy of story-driven concept albums, “The Dawn Trilogy”.

“To Hell Or Kingdom Come” is out now on digital, CD and LP (two colours, each limited to 300 units).