Grey Skies Fallen to Release "Cold Dead Lands" January 24th, 2020

Grey Skies Fallen to Release "Cold Dead Lands" January 24th, 2020

For Immediate Release: Grey Skies Fallen will self-release Cold Dead Lands on January 24, 2020. Cold Dead Lands is the 5th studio album from the New York-based melodic death metal/doom band in a 23-year career. Cold Dead Lands was produced by Grey Skies Fallen. The album was recorded at Audio Playground, and engineered by Keith Moore. Dan Swanö (Nightingale, ex-Edge of Sanity, ex-Bloodbath) mixed and mastered the album at Unisound Recordings Studio. Travis Smith (Opeth, Nevermore, Katatonia) created the artwork. Dan Gargiulo (Revocation, Artificial Brain) and Will Smith (Buckshot Facelift, Artificial Brain, Afterbirth) appear as guests. Listen to the Album Teaser

Cold Dead Lands Tracklisting

1. Visions from the Last Sunset

2. Cold Dead Lands

3. Procession to the Tombs

4. Picking Up the Pieces

5. Ways of the World

6. After the Summer Comes the Fall

For Fans of Opeth, My Dying Bride, Anathema

Pre-order a digital download or digipack CD of Cold Dead Lands via the band's Bandcamp page. All pre-orders include an instant, high-quality download (MP3, FLAC, more) of the album track "Procession to the Tombs," plus the complete album the moment it’s released on January 24th.

About the band:

Grey Skies Fallen formed in 1996 under the name Eve of Mourning. A demo under that name was released that year. Upon discovering a band of the same name based out of Chicago, the band changed the name to Grey Skies Fallen in February 1997. A demo was recorded that year with the aid of a drum machine. Rick Habeeb, (guitars/vocals) Joe D’Angelo, (guitars) and Chris Montalbano (bass). With Craig Rossi on keyboards and Aaron Williams playing drums, the debut album The Fate of Angels was recorded and released in March, 1999.

After this album, Chris and Aaron departed. Sal Gregory stepped in on drums, and remains in the band to this day. Full-length albums Tomorrow’s in Doubt (2002) and Two Way Mirror (2006) followed. The latter saw a drastic departure in sound from the first two albums. For the next 7 years, there were various lineup changes.

An EP called Along Came Life was released in 2010. This would be the last album featuring founding member Joe D’Angelo. Another EP, Introspective, followed in 2012, and showcased a 21-minute long title track.

Tom Anderer (bass) and Joe Sanci (guitars) joined in 2013 and the band quickly recorded The Many Sides of Truth full-length, (2014) and Earthwalker 7" (2015). Sanci departed around this time and D’Angelo came back to record a cover of My Dying Bride’s “From Darkest Skies” for an MDB tribute album, Mires of Sorrow. This would be the last recording for Rossi, who soon departed after an 18-year tenure.

Left as a three-piece, and without replacing the keyboards, the remaining members recorded Cold Dead Lands, a brooding slab of doom metal, with plans to unleash it upon the world on January 24th, 2020. The album was recorded by the band’s usual engineer, Keith Moore, and was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound. There had been talks for the band to work with Swanö in this capacity since 1999, and the plans finally came to fruition. Live shows are being planned in support of the new album.

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