News about and from Ethereal Sound Works activities, projects and bands
Hourswill
Le Radeau de la Méduse
ESW.LPV.149
Taken from the forthcoming album of Hourswill, Le Radeau de la Méduse is a very limited vinyl edition. Shipping scheduled for July.
A1 Le Radeau de la Méduse
B1 Not Enough
B2 Gehenna
Os Vultos
Vultos III – As lágrimas são o sangue da alma
SW003DD
Spectral Works proudly announces the release of the second album of Os Vultos, entitled Vultos II – A luz imprime memórias, set for today. Vultos II is available on all major digital platforms and on bandcamp: https://os-vultos.bandcamp.com/album/vultos-iii-as-l-grimas-s-o-o-sangue-da-alma
Hourswill
Depressione Anaclitica
ESW.CDS.148
“Theme based on psychic matters and centered on a type of depression linked to dependency, abandonment and separation that leads to feelings of fear, anxiety and mistrust. Its commonly developed during the childhood but it can also affect individuals in an adult age.”
Os Vultos
Vultos II – A luz imprime memórias
SW002DD
Spectral Works proudly announces the release of the second album of Os Vultos, entitled Vultos II – A luz imprime memórias, set for today. Vultos II is available on all major digital platforms and on bandcamp: https://os-vultos.bandcamp.com/album/vultos-ii-a-luz-imprime-mem-rias
Ethereal Sound Works is proud to announce the record deal with Carnification for the release of their debut album, Walking Among Thousands.
Carnification is a melodic death metal band from Azores.
Fourth album of Hourswill, Ensemble, is produced by Fernando Matias (Pentagon Audio Manufacturers) and featuring the guest performances of Luís Simões (Saturnia) and Nuno Cruz (Thragedium). It is definitely a must have item for enthusiasts of the genre and supporters of the heavy music universe in general. Welcome to all the parts of something free considered together and in relation to the whole. Pre-order available till May 18.
Le Radeau de la Méduse is the vinyl version of the forthcoming album of Hourswill, Ensemble, included 3 tracks taken from it. Very limited edition. Pre-order available till May 11. Shipping is scheduled for June.
Ensemble tracklist:
Le Radeau de la Méduse tracklist:
A1 Le Radeau de la Méduse
B1 Not Enough
B2 Gehenna
Produced by Fernando Matias (Pentagon Audio Manufacturers) and featuring the guest performances of Luís Simões (Saturnia) and Nuno Cruz (Thragedium) it’s definitely a must have item for enthusiasts of the genre and supporters of the heavy music universe in general. Welcome to all the parts of something free considered together and in relation to the whole.
Anifernyen
Ex Tenebris Lvx
ESW.CDA.142
The second album of the blackened death metal band Anifernyen is a conceptual album inspired by the fictional book De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis, a key element in The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It is structured into nine tracks, each symbolically corresponding to one of the nine gates described in the narrative. The record unfolds as a thematic and musical journey through the occult, knowledge, and transcendence.
The tracklist for Ex Tenebris Lvx consists of the following nine songs:
Spectral Works proudly announces a record deal with Buraco Negro, a Metal, Avant Garde, Prog Jazz band from Lisboa, Portugal, for the release of their debut album, 53 490 000 Anos Luz.
Buraco Negro is an original and conceptual musical project created in 2023 by LordSir7Peles, born from the desire to explore new sonic languages and artistic narratives beyond conventional boundaries. The project presents itself as a space for experimentation, identity, and profound expression, where music is treated as a sensory, emotional, and philosophical journey.
Buraco Negro’s sound merges influences from heavy metal, doom metal, and avant‑garde with elements of prog jazz, resulting in a dense, atmospheric, and unpredictable aesthetic. Each composition is crafted as part of a greater universe, where weight, dissonance, and improvisation coexist with moments of introspection and creative freedom.
The concept took form when LordSir7Peles shared the idea with Carlos Pires, whose vision and artistic sensitivity were essential to bringing the project to life. From this collaboration emerged a body of work that preserves the project’s raw and distinctive essence while adding solidity, coherence, and sonic depth.
The project achieved an even more singular dimension with the special participation of José Martins on saxophone. His presence introduces an expressive and unexpected layer to Buraco Negro’s music, strengthening the fusion between experimental metal and progressive jazz, and broadening the emotional and atmospheric range of the compositions.
Thus, Buraco Negro positions itself as a bold and self-aware artistic project, reclaiming the importance of music with soul, personality, and concept. It looks to the past as a reference and to the future as an open, uncertain, and challenging territory. It invites the listener to dive in without guarantees, embracing the fall, the intensity, and the transformation that only a true musical journey can provide.
Hourswill
Unheilvoll
ESW.CDS.147
“A portrait of existence in modern society and the constant growth of dangerous politics and ideologies cultivated upon the human frustration, disillusion, weakness, failure, discontent, void and hatred that may conduct, in a near future, life as we know it towards its own extinction.”
Ethereal Sound Works is proud to announce the record deal with Hourswill for the release of their fourth album, Ensemble.
Hourswill is a progressive metal and rock band from Lisbon.