Vallenfyre (Paradise lost, My Dying Bride, At The Gates, Doom members)

PARADISE LOST, MY DYING BRIDE, AT THE GATES Members Join Forces In VALLENFYRE - Sep. 2, 2011

Century Media Records has revealed more details about its latest signing, the U.K. death metal band VALLENFYRE. The group is the brainchild of Gregor Mackintosh, songwriter and guitarist of PARADISE LOST, and features members of MY DYING BRIDE, AT THE GATES and DOOM.

VALLENFYRE just released the "Desecration / Iconoclast" seven-inch single (limited to 500 copies) on Imperium Productions. Samples of both tracks can be found on the band's official web site.
http://www.vallenfyre.com/

VALLENFYRE is:

* Gregor Mackintosh (PARADISE LOST) - Vocals and Lead Guitar
* Hamish Glencross (MY DYING BRIDE) - Rhythm and Lead Guitars
* Mully - Rhythm Guitars
* Scoot (DOOM, EXTINCTION OF MANKIND) - Bass
* Adrian Erlandsson (AT THE GATES, PARADISE LOST) - Drums

The sound of VALLENFYRE goes back to Gregor's youth.

"I was first introduced to more extreme music by my older brother in 1981." Gregor says. "Over the next few years in my early teens, I grew to love various early hardcore punk bands like DISCHARGE, ENGLISH DOGS, CONFLICT, etc. Around a similar time I was becoming aware of other more metal music like MOTÖRHEAD and BLACK SABBATH. In '84/85' I got into bands who were fusing these styles like HELLHAMMER, ANTISECT and AMEBIX. A couple of years later I started tape-trading with people all around the world, which enabled me to hear lots of really cool, interesting, extreme music. AUTOPSY, NAPALM DEATH, MORBID ANGEL, REPULSION, NIHILIST are some of the more well-known names I started to get into, but there were many, many more which never gained the same notoriety. At the same time, I formed PARADISE LOST with my friends. Our early stuff was a bit of a mixture of all this stuff but we also had a lot of doom influence from the likes of CANDLEMASS, TROUBLE and ST. VITUS."

The events that led to the conception and formation of VALLENFYRE are not particularly happy or pretty ones.

"In the late summer of 2009, my father, John Mackintosh, was diagnosed with prostate cancer," Gregor explained. "Later in the autumn as his treatment progressed, PARADISE LOST embarked on their European tour to support the latest album ['Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us']. A week into this, I received a call from my mother telling me that the doctors had found cancer in his lungs and it was terminal. He only had weeks to live. I made the decision to leave the tour, leaving my very able guitar tech Milly [not be confused with VALLENFYRE's Mully] to take my place. I went and stayed with my parents for the next few weeks. After a very sad and painful time, he passed away on the 2nd December early in the morning. Over the next few weeks I experienced all the famous stages of grief. It started to become very self-destructive so I decided to channel it into creating something. To pay respects to the man that drove us to our very first gigs because none of us could drive. The only dad I knew that listened to BOLT THROWER's 'Peel Sessions' on the radio. The guy who gave me my first chord book. I decided that I was going to go right back to the beginning. To my roots in death, crust and doom. It all started very angst ridden. This wasn't originally meant for anyone else to hear. It was a release. After recording some material, I realized that I was actually enjoying doing this but I wanted friends involved so it could actually become real fun."

The tracks on the seven-inch single and the upcoming album were recorded between December 2010 and April 2011.

Added Gregor: "The album is called 'A Fragile King', which is a reference to my father's battle with cancer. The lyrics are predominantly about the same thing, but also include gripes with society, religion, politics and relationships as well. It's all pretty grim."

"A Fragile King" will be released on October 31 in Europe and on November 1 in North America.

VALLENFYRE is not a one-off project but will continue as a band that will also play live in 2012.




I bought this album last friday, what a KILLER album. I bought the black vinyl and the clear vinyl version.. This is going to end high in my 2011 top 10!!!!

Every time I see "featuring members of at the gates" I get my hopes up thinking Tomas Lindberg is on vocals.

Good song none the less.

metalhead777 wrote:

Every time I see "featuring members of at the gates" I get my hopes up thinking Tomas Lindberg is on vocals.

check out Lock Up with Lindberg, Shane Embury, Nick Barker, & Anton Reisenegger. great deathgrind.

as for Vallenfyre, they're pretty drab sounding. not bad altogether, but i was expecting more with that line up i guess.

I like how it sounds...that's the kind of "extreme" vocals I like...deeper, rich & full...

mc666 wrote:

metalhead777 wrote:

Every time I see "featuring members of at the gates" I get my hopes up thinking Tomas Lindberg is on vocals.

check out Lock Up with Lindberg, Shane Embury, Nick Barker, & Anton Reisenegger. great deathgrind.

as for Vallenfyre, they're pretty drab sounding. not bad altogether, but i was expecting more with that line up i guess.

Isn't Lock Up a grindcore band?

Yep, they are.. Nice one though.

I really enjoy Vallenfyre.. I like the sound, I think the vocals are killer and the songs are really strong. On the vinyl edition is a non-cd track and that song is really sick with a real creepy vibe. Real Celtic Frost.

This one is going to end in my top 5!

metalhead777 wrote:

mc666 wrote:

metalhead777 wrote:

Every time I see "featuring members of at the gates" I get my hopes up thinking Tomas Lindberg is on vocals.

check out Lock Up with Lindberg, Shane Embury, Nick Barker, & Anton Reisenegger. great deathgrind.

as for Vallenfyre, they're pretty drab sounding. not bad altogether, but i was expecting more with that line up i guess.

Isn't Lock Up a grindcore band?

death/grind yeah.

as for Vallenfyre, the more you listen to it, the more it grabs you. i've played it three more times since i made my first post & i like it a lot more.

I have seen the video over at metalinjection. I'd like to hear more from this album.

Just recieved the clear vinyl... I now have to find the black-gold marbled vinyl edition and than I've got all three editions.

Ordered this and the new Paradise Lost dvd earlier.