HEMINA – Night Echoes (2019)

“Night Echoes” is the title of the new HEMINA album, 4-piece Melodic Progressive Metal band from Sydney, Australia. The band’s sound has been described as a unique combination of hard hitting syncopated grooves, lush synth backwashes, multi-part vocal harmonies, blistering memorable leads with a focus on songwriting and emotion.

Hemina have supported international bands Uriah Heep, Kamelot, Apocalyptica, Queensryche and soon-to-be Haken. They have shared the stage with Aussie legends, Caligula’s Horse, Chaos Divine, Voyager, Twelve Foot Ninja, Divine Ascension, Breaking Orbit among many others and simply live for the stage.

Hemina’s first three albums ‘Synthetic’, ‘Nebulae’ and ‘Venus’ were met with critical acclaim traversing many different sides of the band’s sonic spectrum from the complex and dark, to the immediate and uplifting. The release of ‘Venus’ saw Hemina taking their music overseas for the first time, culminating in performances at Progpower Europe (Netherlands) and Euroblast (Germany).

The band’s fourth album ‘Night Echoes’ is the most collaborative work to date offering the eclectic flavours of what fans have come to expect in the past as well as a new palette and range of emotional expression never before heard from the group.
Hemina return with a more concise 45 minute concept album exploring adolescence, nostalgia, grief, and loss in the 21st century with a thematic arc to accompany and elaborate on their previous conceptual output.

‘Night Echoes’ is Hemina at their most emotional and melodic without ignoring the aggressive and venomous side that keeps the music in balance.
With a powerful modern production and mix crafted by Skene at Ploughman Studios with audiophile mastering from Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions (Periphery, Devin Townsend, Plini, Architects) – this is Hemina at their best.
Highly Recommended

 

01. The Only Way
02. What’s the Catch?
03. We Will
04. One Short
05. Flat
06. Everything Unsaid
07. Nostalgia
08. In Technicolour
09. Flicker

Douglas Skene – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production
Mitch Coull – guitar, vocals
Jessica Martin – bass, vocals
Nathan McMahon – drums, percussion, vocals

with:
Phill Eltakchi – vocals (4)
Selin Akbaşoğulları – vocals (6)
Reece Denton – xylophone & ocarina (5), gang vocals
Dean Bennison – slide guitar (9)
Anthony Stewart – musical box (8), gang vocals
Tom de Wit, Shane Ian Leadbeater, Harrisen Walden, Mairead Walden, Lachlan Arvidson, Simon Bowles, Luke Delbridge, Radina Dimcheva, Jay Orr, Jevginiy Kasputin, Rico Kallirgos, Daniel Straka, Mark Ashby, Fernando Segundo, Bart Sluis and Aaron Austin – gang vocals

 

Pre Order:
hemina.bandcamp.com/album/night-echoes