Allamedah - singles "Algema" and "Perspective" 2018

Greetings people, sorry for my absence but this year keeps on being hard to me, seems I can't find the right path in between the problems... well that is not the reason i am here today.
On of these days I stumble upon something that put me in absolute awe. I was seeing a react channel caught A&P Reacts(I totally recommend them for finding cool stuff) and heard something I really didn't expect to. I already knew from Ava Inferi how the Portuguese matrix works so well in metal, mainly the atmospherically darkest metal, more connected to darkness of mind and being.
But Ava is a style more connected to gothic metal, and I was still to see if it would work in another style. Than the said channel showed a band called Allamedah with a Fado singer called Valeria Carvalho. I didn't knew any of them, neither the band or the girl. But as the songs starts I became in awe, is starts with strength, in Portuguese(something kind of rare) and all of a sudden the song has a break and it starts a Fado time, then it evolves with conjunction of fado and a more heavy/prog sound of the band. From the break on the presence of the Portuguese Guitar is simply majestic. The song is called "Algema", and it should be shared for more people to know, and then maybe we will more and more fusions of each country style with metal.

The second song "Perspective" is more a typical heavy metal song, but I still enjoy it, that kind of sound is not the most common in Portugal, where black and thrash metal prevails. For me a progressive fan I lack more solid bands on the genre to follow.

Hope you enjoy both songs as much as I do. Cheers and see you soon.

Elements of Progressive - Ava Inferi - Onyx (2011)

Today or Tonight as you wish I will show you something different.

Ava Inferi is a project created by Rune Eriksen (Mayhem) with Carmen (from Aenima), here there are elements of progressive, like the heavy guitar, some ambience sounds, but the main style of Ava Inferi is Gothic, Opera, symphonic, Lyric and even Fado. It was created in 2005. The Portuguese singer is a remarkable piece on the band. Her voice is strong, clean and with great vocal range. makes a perfect combo with the guitar of Eriksen. This band despite of Rune has deep Portuguese roots, as some songs have Fado as influence

Onyx from 2011 is an album that brought more progressive elements, more dark ambience to the band, they will no longer be only Gothic, they will add other influences to their sound.

The band members on this album were the following

• Carmen Susana Simões - vocals
• Rune Eriksen - electric and clean guitars, effects
• André Sobral - guitar
• Joana Messias - bass
• João Samora - drums, percussion

The track list was this one

1. "Onyx" – 4:49
2. "The Living End" – 6:49
3. "A Portal" – 4:56
4. "((Ghostlights))" – 6:57
5. "Majesty" – 5:56
6. "The Heathen Island" – 9:19
7. "By Candlelight and Mirrors" – 5:48
8. "Venice in Fog" – 5:59

The Song I will share with you it's called Living End, strong song, melodic also, we can feel the emotion through the entire song.

Sadly in 2013, more or less two months after what we in Portugal Called, Lisbon Dark Failure (Lisbon Dark Fest), where Therion weren't fully payed as they deserved to be by a bunch of stupid promoters. Ava Inferi announced their end. However, even this year they released a new single in a compilation, and Rune and Carmen anounced a new coming project. We are eager to hear it in a near future.