New album, “Wayfarer”, out on March 27th!
KERRIGAN are one of the most promising newcomers from Germany playing traditional heavy metal. Three years after the highly acclaimed debut album “Bloodmoon”, it’s time for the follow-up entitled “Wayfarer”.
“Dreamy, melancholic and pretty versatile,” this is how guitarist and singer Jonas Weber describes the second KERRIGAN album. For him, “Wayfarer” is more or less a direct continuation of “Bloodmoon”: “Regarding the songwriting, ‘Wayfarer’ continues where ‘Bloodmoon’ has left off. The idea for the song ‘Blood And Steel’, for example, dates back to the mixing phase of ‘Bloodmoon’ at Iguana Studios, and the demo recordings of ‘Surrender’ and ‘Wayfarer’ developed parallel to the work on the first album.”
“For me, the record is everything I love about bands from the eighties,” adds guitarist Bruno Schotten. “Songs, that are accessible but have so many interesting details that they never get boring. We said to ourselves: maybe it’s indeed time for a modern heavy metal classic, and I do hope that with songs like ‘The Ice Witch’ or ‘Blood And Steel’ we came one step closer to our aim. Furthermore, I’d say that ‘Wayfarer’ is a very varied album. Apart from orthodox speed metal, you can find everything on there; even a happy, uplifting song like ‘Fighter’.”
“Wayfarer” was recorded, mixed and mastered by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios / Germany. Cover artwork by Adam Burke.
(Photograph by Samira Aline)
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