WE SELL THE DEAD - Heaven Doesn't Want You And Hell Is Full (23 fevrier 2018)

Apollo Papathanasio s'occupe en attendant le prochain Spiritual Beggars avec Niclas Engelin d'In Flames.



The official music video for the song "Pale And Perfect" from WE SELL THE DEAD can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's debut album, "Heaven Doesn't Want You And Hell Is Full", which will be released on February 23 via earMUSIC.

Revolving around Niclas Engelin (IN FLAMES, ENGEL), DRÖMRIKET's Jonas Slättung, Gas Lipstick (former HIM drummer) and the voice of Apollo Papathanasio (SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, FIREWIND), WE SELL THE DEAD goes beyond the strains of conventional storytelling and create a multi-media experience of premium quality heavy metal music embedded in visually stimulating and atmospheric visuals.

Heavy-yet-melodic sounds transport the listener into a Victorian inspired world that is defined by pompous manors and daunting luxury standing in deep contrast to the harshness and cruelty of the gutter. It is a world that reeks of hysteria, but, above all, a sense of mysticism and dark romanticism. WE SELL THE DEAD's music rises above this, not merely pointing out this injustice, but expanding the narrative into the extreme, playing with themes of ghosts, death or religion.

But not only…

Despite a reference to Victorian times, WE SELL THE DEAD maintains a very modern and ever-so-current approach that translates to the world we live in today.

Explains Slättung: "From the late 1800, an era that has inspired our band enormously, comes one of the greatest and darkest crime mysteries of them all: Jack The Ripper. We don't know 100 percent who he was but we know his horrendous deeds. All the visuals we had in our mind, combined with the sometimes slightly morbid lyrics, made us think that this is what music would have sounded like if heavy metal had existed in the 19th century, or if Jack The Ripper had travelled forward in time to join a metal band. WE SELL THE DEAD would have been his natural choice for a backing band. He probably would have felt right at home with us.

"But, at the same time, the world hasn't exactly evolved into a beautiful place since the 1880s. In the 1979 movie, 'Time After Time', Jack The Ripper escapes justice by, indeed, fleeing in a time machine to 1979. After getting caught by his followers, The Ripper utters this line of wisdom: 'Back in 1893, I was a monster. Today... I'm an amateur.'"

"Heaven Doesn't Want You And Hell Is Full" will be released as a CD, LP and on digital.

Track listing:

01. The Body Market
02. Echoes Of An Ugly Past
03. Leave Me Alone
04. Imagine
05. Turn It Over
06. Too Cold To Touch
07. Trust
08. Pale And Perfect
09. Silent Scream

Devant le succès phénoménal de ce sujet, le groupe remet le couvert avec un deuxième album:


WE SELL THE DEAD's sophomore album, "Black Sleep", will be released on February 21, 2020 via earMUSIC, bringing a riveting mix of dark and raw heavy metal with catchy songs about death as an integral part of life and living.

The band has shared the video for the new single "Across The Water". Check it out below.

"The term 'black sleep' is, of course, a metaphor for death," the band explains. "'Eternal sleep' is a somewhat more frequently used term, but we wanted an expression that sounded both sinister and soft at the same time. Because it is a quite beautiful thing — this short life of ours. Blink and it's over. And, most importantly, death is not the enemy. Indifference and life without meaning are. We are all going to die, eventually, all of us, sometime sooner or later. Life isn't about sitting and waiting for that to happen. Life is about taking what you've got and squeezing the most out of it."

WE SELL THE DEAD began in 2016 with Niclas Engelin (IN FLAMES, ENGEL) and Jonas Slättung (DRÖMRIKET). They were quickly joined by their old friend Apollo Papathanasio — the frontman for FIREWIND and SPIRITUAL BEGGARS — on vocals. Gas Lipstick, the drummer for the first album and a former member of HIM, has been replaced by ENGEL drummer Oscar Nilsson due to logistical circumstances. In addition, Petter Olsson joins the band as a full-time member on keys and thereby perfectly rounds out the quintet.

"Black Sleep" track listing:

01. Caravan
02. Across The Water
03. Black Sleep
04. Carved In Stone
05. The Light
06. Hour Of The Wolf
07. River In Your Blood
08. Nightmare And Dream
09. Scars In My Heart
10. Shallow Grave

WE SELL THE DEAD is:

Niclas Engelin - Guitar
Jonas Slättung - Bass
Apollo Papathanasio - Vocals
Oscar Nilsson - Drums
Petter Olsson - Keys

Le seul truc qui m'étonne dans ton groupe c'est de ne pas voir Sharlee D'Angelo à la basse...

J'ai l'impression que le bassiste de WE SELL THE DEAD est à l'origine du groupe, sinon c'est évident qu'ils auraient pris ce bon vieux Sharlee !

Nouvel extrait, de plus en plus 'classic hard rock' avec Apollo qui se prend pour David Coverdale:

Nouvel extrait:

En regardant l'actualité d'Apollo suite à mon écoute de Firewind, je regarde un extrait et je me dis "tiens, étonnant, ce n'est pas Sharlee d'Anegelo à la basse"!