Azure

With their new album “AZURE,” announced for November 21, the still relatively young musicians continue their mission to gently and respectfully help the beloved classic heavy metal and hard rock, which made up a significant part of their youth and early career, evolve.
In the process, the revelry and yearning of early hard rock romanticism meets a dash of robust prog metal, coming together to create an atmospheric density reminiscent of a powerful film soundtrack. NEREIS themselves describe this approach as follows: “What we wanted was to create a sound that could satisfy the hard rock nostalgia in us and our audience, while conveying a sense of freshness and experimentation, all the while maintaining a catchy and easily understandable character.”
“AZURE” is all about the cosmos as a calming constant in all life. Again and again, the gaze is directed from outside toward Earth and its narrow, seemingly ephemeral blue ribbon that protects us and allows us to breathe. In the music itself, it is often possible to sense where the inspiration for “AZURE” originated: from the pioneers whom we can only propel away from the planet's surface with extreme force, freeing them from the clutches of gravity for a brief moment so that they can grant us this view of ourselves in the grand scheme of things.