Portuguese symphonic metal band Enchantya released their third studio album Cerberus earlier last year via Finnish record label Inverse Records. To celebrate the success they're now releasing the whole album as Orchestral version. The release date for 'Symphony of Cerberus' album is set to be 26th April 2024.

The first single Rising Star (Orchestral version) is released today and the music video is available here: https://youtu.be/9VzdKW4zMzk

Pedro Antunes comments:
" “Cerberus” was EnChanTya’s most symphonic and bombastic album to date. When people’s reactions to this direction of the band were so positive and gave us the honor of receiving the Album of the Year award by the most famous Metal Magazine in our country, Caminhos Metalicos, we decided to strip the songs down to its orchestral elements and give ourselves and our listeners a sister version of them, a more classical and symphonic approach to the world we explored in “Cerberus”. It is a celebration of the album’s success and also a more experimental vision like the band has always been happy to take.

We found that “Rising Star” should be the first gateway into this new project because of its cosmic and relaxing nature, standing in contrast to the heaviness of the original song, which represents the vision for this side-album so well.

We hope that you enjoy this take on “Rising Star”, and that it entices you to check out “Symphony of Cerberus” on April 26th!"

LISTEN Rising Star (Orchestral version) on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/enchantya-rising-star

BIOGRAPHY:
Enchantya was born in 2004 when vocalist Rute Fevereiro took a break from her classic band Black Widows and started exploring music for a new project. In 2005, the band recorded their first EP, Moonlighting the Dreamer, out in 2006. Having witnessed a great reception, the band started to work on their first album, releasing 'Dark Rising’ through Massacre Records in 2012 to very positive reviews. After some time touring and promoting the album,the band began composing. However, artistic and creative differences about the new music's direction and sound would lead to the departure of members and the band split up.

Rute was alone with her project again and having to start all over. Fortunately, this did not stop Rute's motivation and a few months later, by March of 2016, she had chosen a whole new team of talented musicians to take Enchantya through the next step. After a year of rehearsing with amazing creative chemistry, the band created "On Light and Wrath" , Enchantya’s second album. Like in their debut album, the band booked a few months of studio recordings in 2018 with Fernando Matias at the Pentagon Audio Manufacturers, to bring the new album to life with eleven tracks, entitled "On Light and Wrath" , also taking one step further by adding violin, a whole choir of singers and the guest appearance of the vocalist from D E S I R E , Nuno Caldas, creating a very refreshed and even more epic sound for the band. Finnish label Inverse Records released Enchantya’s album in 2019.

In the middle of their second album's promo tour, the pandemic hit and the band spent the following two years composing and recording their new opus in the midst of all the chaos. The result was the band's third album "CERBERUS", a heavy and symphonic effort born of the songwriting through the world's conflicted times, and also Enchantya's most ambitious record to date. "Cerberus" was out on April 28th of 2023 to critical acclaim, considered Portugal's best metal album of the year, and nominating Enchantya for the Adamastor Award for best portuguese bands of 2023, alongside Moonspell and Seventh Storm.

Celebrating the success of "Cerberus", before all the awards the band was already preparing to announce "Symphony of Cerberus", the orchestral version of their acclaimed album. Now, on April 26th 2024, marking a year after the release of "Cerberus", Enchantya will release "Symphony of Cerberus", consisting of the 12 original tracks revamped for orchestra and choir, allowing the symphonic parts of "Cerberus" to shine and be heard in all its glory, with a few surprises including solo violins arranged and performed by violinist and composer Miguel Berkemeier, who has been accompanying the band on live shows throughout this era's tour.

Enchantya to release Symphony of Cerberus album - Rising Star single and video out now!

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