MANES signs to CANDLELIGHT RECORDS

MANES has signed to Candlelight Records. Two albums is currently in pre-production and the recording of the first of these, given the working-title “Invention…”, will start this summer with an estimated release in early 2007. The band comments via their Myspace blog: “We'll be collaborating with some external people again on this, both musical, lyrical and visual artists, so that's keeping the unpredictability-meter dangerously close to the red zone for us as well, which we find very satisfying. Some of the songs has already been given names like Deeprooted, Every passenger a pilot, Controlled escalation and Dira Necessitas. We find the new stuff very dark and atmospheric in a close-to-suicidal way, and some of you will probably hate us forever and wish we'd just die after this one. Which we also find very satisfying.” Read more at http://www.myspace.com/manes
The first sign of life from the Manes camp will however come in the form of the demo/pre-prod track “Indiscretion first draft” featured on the upcoming Candlelight Records compilation “Phoenix Risen” (out 03/07/06). This is a comprehensive double CD compilation featuring the latest tracks from the label's entire current roster.

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Manes was founded back in late 1992 and released three demos and their debut album “Under ein blodraud maane” on Hammerheart Records as a two-piece, but has since then evolved to become a multi-headed monster. With members from bands like 3rd and the Mortal, Atrox and Chton the band released the album “Vilosophe” on the Italian label Code666 in 2003 to great reviews like 15/15 in Legacy (Ger), 10/10 at Metal.de and 5/7 in Metal Hammer (Ger). As a stepping-stone before the next album is released the EP [view] came out as a limited edition in February 2006 on Aural Music, the mother-label of Manes' earlier label Code666. The band left Aural Music not long after the release of this EP and signed to Candlelight Records. The music defies any easy genre definitions, but can best be described as a dark mix of metal, rock and electronica. Manes has played gigs with bands like Isis, Katatonia, Red Harvest, Madder Mortem, Theater of Tragedy etc. and played festivals like Quart, Inferno, Hole in The Sky and Southern Discomfort.

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Out now:

[view] – ltd.ed EP
>> Aural Music. Seven track ep featuring new songs, coversongs and remixes

Svarte Skoger – ltd.ed CD
>> Kyrck Prod. Collection of all three 93, 94 and 95 demos plus two bonustracks

Til Kongens Grav De Dode Vandrer – ltd.ed LP
>> FNS Rec. Third hard-to-find 95 demo on vinly with poster

1993-1994 – ltd.ed LP
>> Kyrck Prod. Two first 93 and 94 demos on vinyl with booklet