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VENUS PRINCIPLE reveal second single 'Shut It Down'

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VENUS PRINCIPLE release second single 'Shut It Down' taken from their debut album "Stand in Your Light"


VENUS PRINCIPLE have released the beautifully sorrow-laden new track 'Shut It Down' as the second single taken from the dark psychedelic rockers' debut full-length "Stand in Your Light", which has been scheduled for release on May 27. Biographical information and all details about the British-Swedish outfit's first album can be viewed below.


The obviously pandemic inspired song 'Shut It Down' again features a stunning duet between between Daisy Chapman and Daniel Änghede, and is now available via this link: https://youtu.be/RWWEr7pFChc



VENUS PRINCIPLE band pictures and other graphic materials are provided via this link: (click here for Dropbox)



VENUS PRINCIPLE 'Shut It Down' taken from the album "Stand in Your Light"


VENUS PRINCIPLE comment: "We wrote 'Shut It Down' while most of Europe was caught in the lockdown of spring 2020", explains singer and pianist Daisy Chapman. "Whilst the subject matter of a virus creeping across all the continents may already feel outdated by now, both Daniel and I were isolated in Sweden and the United Kingdom while we were penning lyrics and creating chords. At the time it felt like a post-apocalyptic nightmare. This song came together through another cross-country exchange and it embodies frustration and loneliness through soaring harmony, unrepenting guitars, and lyrics."




Tracklist

2. Barricades

3. All These Words

4. Days of Summer

5. The Lord He Giveth and He Taketh Away

7. Kindle the Fire

8. Drag Nets

9. Sanctuary

10. The Haunting

11. Stand in Your Light




"Stand in Your Light" is a work of love. Passion drips out of every note from the bitter-sweet honeycomb of solemn melodies that VENUS PRINCIPLE have created for their debut album. Although this is the first record from the British-Swedish collective, these hymns for the burdened and broken come audibly with the profound maturity of hard earned experience from all the veteran musicians involved.


Classic rock is at the heart of "Stand in Your Light". Whether the resulting music is dubbed art rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, or anything else, VENUS PRINCIPLE are openly showing their roots with obvious pride: KING CRIMSON, PINK FLOYD, BLACK MOUNTAIN, GENESIS, Bob Welch era FLEETWOOD MAC, and many others of the giants that shaped modern guitar based music into the towering and persistent heritage have left their marks on "Stand in Your Light". Yet the 6-piece is anything but a simple carbon copy.


Expertly, VENUS PRINCIPLE add their own ingredients to the canonical rock elements. Foremost pain and darkness permeate each track, spawning a terrible beauty ruling in triumphant glory. Yet shadow cannot exist without light, which the British-Swedish musicians provide in delicate moments of hope, tenderness, and warmth. In these aspects of "Stand in Your Light", the metal spirit of some of the protagonists on the album reveals itself. Particularly tasteful British influences such as musically a dose from the legacy of sadly split-up ANATHEMA, and on a more emotional level a pinch of MY DYING BRIDE and PARADISE LOST but without their metallic harshness have added to the collective's recipe.


VENUS PRINCIPLE were formed in autumn 2019 after several of its members decided to part ways with CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX. Still fully in love with dark, melodic art rock and psychedelic music, this group of close-knit friends was not content to just sit at home and twiddle thumbs. Inviting more familiar associates into their fold that included active and former members of AT THE GATES, ISON, TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE DISASTER, and LOUISE LEMÓN this new rock band was born. To join the collective took more than just being friends. Each member is expected to share the passion and musical vision for this modern take on a vintage sound, which this new band derives from both the styles of Sweden and the UK that is crafted into a fresh and eclectic aural experience.


Although they are just at the starting point of an intended long career, VENUS PRINCIPLE emerge with the fully-fledged masterpiece "Stand in Your Light". This album is bound to accomplish a most difficult feat by delighting adherents of both rock and metal.


Release date: May 27, 2022


Style: Dark psychedelic rock


Line-up

Daniel Änghede – vocals, guitars

Daisy Chapman – vocals, piano

Jonas Stålhammar – guitars, keyboards

Mark Furnevall – keyboards, backing vocals

Ben Wilsker – drums

Pontus Blom – bass


Guest musicians

August Eriksson – saxophone

Johan Weber – pedal steel guitar

Kalle Widén – pedal steel guitar


Produced by Venus Principle

Recording by Jamie McKivitt at Shaken Oak Farm, Witney, UK

Recording by Kalle Widén at Studio Enheten, Uddevalla, Sweden

Additional tracking by Scot Mckenzie at New Cut Studios

Additional tracking by Jonas Stålhammar and Daniel Änghede at Moondawn and Observatoriet Studios


Logo design by Jonathan Hultén

Artwork & layout by Roger Iderman


Available formats

"Stand in Your Light" is available as a 36-page hardcover 2CD artbook incl. bonus tracks, on limited gatefold 2-LP crystal clear vinyl, on gatefold 2-LP black vinyl, and as Digisleeve CD



Band pictures and other graphic materials: (click here for Dropbox)


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