Calgary's RED CAIN Nominated For YYC Music Award For "Metal Recording of The Year"; New Album “NÄE'BLISS” Out Now!

L-R - Taylor Gibson (drums), Kalie Yan (bass, vocals), Evgeniy Zayarny (vocals), Samuel Ridout (guitar)

Photo Credit Zak Kelly

Calgary, Canada's Red Cain have been nominated by the YYC Music Awards for "Metal Recording of The Year" for their single "Fisher King", which is featured on the band's latest their latest third full-length “NÄE'BLISS” released this past June.

The band is nominated alongside their metal peers Osyron, Syryn, Balrogath, and Carlos Cruz Project.

The award category is presented by Loud As Hell Festival.

Vocalist Evgeniy Zayarny comments:

“It’s a great honour to be once again nominated for the prestigious YYC Metal Recording of the Year award. One of our key values as a band has always been to recognize the contribution of our home scene to our success, and to celebrate the massive presence of local talent in Calgary, our home city.
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The YYC Music Awards team and the other nominees share these values, and it’s lovely to see local artists celebrating each other in this decentralized era.
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The nominated track, “Fisher King”, is very important to us. It remains in many ways THE original Red Cain composition, written in its first form 12 years ago and evolving now to one of our most popular songs. It is also a track that takes us back to our musical roots after 3 albums, and what better way to achieve this than recognition and support from local fans and industry professionals?
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Huge congratulations to the other nominees and a big heavy metal thank you to the YYC Music Awards team, Loud As Hell Metal Festival - and all Calgary music fans for supporting this award.”

YYC Music Awards - Metal Recording of The Year 2023 Nominees:

​https://yycmusicawards.com/awards/2023/2023-yycma-nominees

Balrogath - Arcane Sacrifice

Carlos Cruz Project - Volume 1

Osyron - Momentous

Red Cain - Fisher King

Syryn - Heads or Tails

Red Cain's new album “NÄE'BLISS” is a homage to the legendary world of American author Robert Jordan's fantasy epic "The Wheel of Time" (novel/TV series). With a grimdark edge, down-tuned guitars, death and power prog metal influences, and an unrelenting march forward, "NÄE'BLISS" is a foray into the reverse side of the Wheel of Time story - that of the Forsaken, antagonists, instruments of the Great Lord of the Dark, and the brutal and captivating allure of letting Chaos reign supreme.

The band comments on the release of “NAË’BLISS”:

"A labour of love and technique, this record is much more stripped down, aggressive, and heavier than our previous releases - while retaining the unique Red Cain sound. With virtuoso guitarist Samuel Ridout and backup vocalist Kalie Yan joining the band, we cracked the gates into tech-death and prog, using bands like Tesseract and Meshuggah as inspiration - and veering heavily into death metal with vocals and arrangements. The result, combined with our conceptual homage to the fantasy series Wheel of Time, brings us back to our musical roots and delivers the most honest and intense Red Cain album yet. Enjoy!"

“NAË’BLISS” can be heard in full at the following links:

Youtube - https://youtu.be/0NV2RzaJ0VQ​

Spotify - https://sptfy.com/Or3m​

Bandcamp - https://redcain.bandcamp.com/album/na-ebliss​

The band explains in further detail about choosing the Wheel of Time concept:

“We are all massive fantasy fans, and for us, Wheel of Time rubs shoulders with LOTR as a genre-defining epic fantasy series that started it all. The world of the Wheel is a brutal, compelling world with multitudes of fascinating characters, and we were particularly interested in exploring its more visceral aspects - an area that begs to be paired with heavy metal. We’ve seen some of our musical icons, like Blind Guardian, successfully go down this path, and it was magnificent to see new musical interpretations of those stories spun out by them - not to mention some bloody good fun. Now, it is our turn to ride forward in another turn of the Wheel. Enjoy!"

Red Cain is recommended for fans of Kamelot, Symphony X, Myrath, Powerwolf, Mastodon, and The Contortionist.

Music Videos:

We Are Chaos - https://youtu.be/YbXEV1DFjnQ​

Fisher King - https://youtu.be/WaPe8mQ5uG8​

The Great Hunt - https://youtu.be/Xm8OeUGVkjg

Track Listing:​
1. Fisher King - 5:35
2. Blight - 6:37
3. The Great Hunt - 4:09
4. We Are Chaos - 4:55
5. Sightblinder - 2:47
6. The Man Who Can't Forget (Part I) - 2:38
7. Crane of Malkier (Part II) - 2:04
8. Red Cain - Fires of Heaven ft. James Delbridge (Lycanthro) - 8:02
Album Length: 36:52

Red Cain, from Calgary, Canada is a modern progressive metal project with Eastern European roots. They have been making waves since their first release in 2016, with award-winning music videos and concept albums “Kindred: Act I” and “Kindred: Act II”. Red Cain’s first two full albums conceptually told a sprawling story of how raw and primal ancient myth collides with modern society and human yearning toward the stars, toward perfection. The albums contained a ton of genre inspirations, from gothic rock to ambient electronica, power, black, and death metal, and were universally lauded for their inventiveness, variety, and strong conceptual content. They continue this momentum with forthcoming releases.

Red Cain is:​
Evgeniy Zayarny - Vocals
Samuel Ridout - Guitars
Tyler Corbett - Guitars
Kalie Yan - Bass, Vocals
Taylor Gibson - Drums

For more info: Redcain.ca | Facebook.com/redcainofficial | Instagram.com/redcainarmy | Redcain.bandcamp.com | Spotify​

"NAE’ BLISS is a fine example of world-class Metal. With every album they grow in statue and status they can stand shoulder to shoulder with the titans of the genre." - Metal-Rules​
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​"Red Cain continue their evolutionary path with NÄ̈E’BLISS, taking us all on a fantastic and metallic journey that will surely help them carve their name even deeper into the metal scene worldwide." - The Headbanging Moose

"they come up with elements of melodeath, symphonic-, prog- and powermetal, melted together by the expressive vocal performance of singer Evgeniy Zayarny, who convinces with his full tone and an impressive range... “Näe’bliss” is well written, varied and dynamic, telling the stories about a common “good” against an “evil” antagonist in a great way." - The Prog Space​
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"What a masterpiece! In my last review, I gave my first 10/10 and called it my album of the year. That place has already been overtaken." - Musipedia of Metal

"Canadians Red Cain took on the mammoth task of turning Robert Jordan's works of the Wheel of Time series into an album... Needless to say the Power Prog band delivers an ambitious album filled with twists and turns that will keep you on your toes!" - Belgian Jasper​
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​"Red Cain has made by far the best Wheel Of Time-related piece of art that I’ve seen or heard since before November 18, 2021. Sour grapes aside, this is some energetic power metal worthy of the source material." - Metal Utopia​
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​"Red Cain combine with clean singing and growling vocals on opener “Fisher King.” Much of Nae Bliss has a fresh modern sound (“Blight” and the gothic “The Great Hunt”) and some modern groove (“Sightblinder”)... The modern metal here reminds me of Iced Earth and Nevermore which has some excellent clean vocals. " - Transcending the Mundane​
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"this is an album to explore if you tend to enjoy a more theatrical and bombastic variety of progressive metal." - Progressor

"If you're into the symphonic side of metal, then this is a must have album." - Smorg Magazine

"As such Red Cain uses Näe’bliss to showcase the slickest noodling and power grooving of their career... Red Cain hasn’t yet made an album for the ages in this modern expression of classic prog/power exuberance, but each record thus far has swung for the fences and landed in good graces—stop sitting around and spin some Red Cain!" - Angry Metal Guy​
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​"you’ll still feel the mighty pull of Power Metal all over the record. But the progressive parts now start to encroach on soundscapes bands like Haken or Caligula’s Horse3) usually usurp. And that leaves us with an uncannily savvy power prog mix with an unholy urge for unusual extreme metal undercurrents on full display. And that led – yet again – to overheated turntables over at the RMR office tower. Red Cain are back and in full swing yet again, feisty as ever. And as well they should be. So, where’s that bookshop? Robert Jordan’s fantasy lore’s beckoning us." - Rock Music Raider​
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​"With Näe’bliss, Red Cain has created their own progressive metal epic fantasy that is fuelled with blast beats, howling guitars, wailing vocals, and rumbling bass. The intricate lyrics tell their own tales and have captured the essence of the adversaries and nemesis of the story. Perhaps for me, storyline aside, is the wonderful vocal dynamic between Evgeniy Zayarny and Kalie Yan and how they play off each other in a beautiful tit for tat of clean versus harsh and singing versus operatic as if they were the protagonist and antagonist. Let the chaos reign supreme, crank Näe’bliss to 11." - Amplify The Noise​
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​"“Fisher King,” is a monstrous opening, a song that tempts the deliverance and brings the power of brilliance and chaos of the whirlwind.... “Fires of Heaven,” is bombastic, powerful, enchanting and downright haunting. A song that smashes through everything." - The Median Man