Rude Awakening Records

  Today’s the release date set for HERUKA’s third full length, “Memorie”, out on Rude Awakening Records once again. The album contains ten Black Metal songs with Italian lyrics composed in poetic style, on common themes of death and suffering of life. The new album follows the previous full “No Sun Dared Pass Our Windows” two years after its release in 2020 and marks the return to the Italian lyrics also used in their early releases. The band celebrates the new record unleashing a new lyric video: a cover of “Passacaglia della Vita”, a 17th century baroque song often attributed to the Italian composer Stefano Landi and covered by many artists of different styles along the centuries. HERUKA brings the tune in a Black Metal interpretation, with the help of two special guests to recall the baroque origin in the intro and the outro. https://youtu.be/JkPNeNk7OPY The artwork completes the conceptual death work on “Memorie”: a detail of “The Human Fragility”, homage to a masterp

  While the release date of HERUKA’s new record approaches, the Black Metal band from Italy publishes another extract from “Memorie”. After unveiling the first single “Presagi”, now it’s time for “Ad un Passo”: again, the lyrical content is about a suffering life close to its end and the whole record sees Italian lyrics written in poetic style sharing common themes. Release date for “Memorie” is set for May 24th, once again the record will be published by Rude Awakening Records and limited to 300 CD copies worldwide. The artwork is a tribute to a piece of art by Italian painter Salvator Rosa, a detail taken from “The Human Fragility” (1656 circa).   Complete “Memorie” tracklist: 1. Inno 2. Presagi 3. Ad un Passo 4. Memorie 5. Indarno 6. Vegetale 7. Inutile Attesa 8. Anossia 9. Criogenesi 10. Passacaglia Heruka is: Nekrom: vocals Adranor: guitar Moha: guitar Nemuri Shi: drums Cruz: bass Special guests: Flavio Virzì (acoustic guitar) and Sonja Horlac