HELEVORN

track-list:
Inherit the Stars
The Defiant God
Signals
When Nothing Shudders
Unbreakable Silence
L’Endemà
The Lost Futures
Children of the Sunrise

Helevorn are:
Josep Brunet – vocals
Sandro Vizcaíno – guitars
Alex Correa – guitars
Pedro Sánchez Bonnín – keyboards
Jose Rubio Rodriguez – bass

discography:
2001 Prelude Demo
2005 Fragments Full-length
2010 Forthcoming Displeasures Full-length
2014 Compassion Forlorn Full-length
2019 Aamamata Full-length
2024 Inherit the Stars Single
2024 Signals Single
2024 Espectres Full-length

10/10 Games, Brrraaains & Head-Banging-Life:
“‘Espectres’ is an album of the utmost quality that delivers a punch of moodiness, melancholy and emotion while managing to still be pretty damn heavy. It’s an album that deserves to be heard and once you listen to it, it’s going to be hard to stop repeating it over and over again.”
The ProgSpace:
“Directly from the start of the album, Helevorn make their intentions clear: to create a melancholic atmosphere for the listener to drown in. Musically speaking, ‘Espectres’ offers us a classic gothic metal sound with references to bands like Paradise Lost, Moonspell and Tiamat. The vocals offer a balanced mix between cleans and growls, with some sporadic female input to add to the gothic atmosphere. Sometimes things get a bit more upbeat, sometimes a bit doomier, and there is even a guest contribution by Saturnus vocalist Thomas Jensen to finish the album in a rather morose fashion. All in all, Helevorn have succeeded to create a lovely album full of gloomy bliss, making ‘Espectres’ a perfect start for the autumn season.”
Sentinel Daily:
“What it does is push the boundaries of the genre with subtle experimentation, emotive songwriting, and a deep understanding of the human condition. Helevorn has crafted an album that is both introspective and outwardly forceful, making it a vital listen for any fan of doom in 2024.”
9/10 Ever Metal:
“‘Signals’, in my opinion, is the song that best defines Helevorn’s own fingerprint, by taking Melodic Death Metal, highlighting the impressive guitar solo which bring beautiful soundscapes to the song, and planting it right in the middle of the Doom Metal preponderant on ‘Espectres’…if you enjoy the vanguard sonority arising from Doom Metal patterns, just go for it.”
Viking in the Wilderness:
“An album to seek out if a more atmospheric oriented and melancholic variety of doom metal is music you tend to enjoy.”
Heavy Debriefings:
“It is simply one of the best melodic death doom albums of the year coming from one of the best melodic death doom bands. 19 years since their debut LP and they have only gotten better with age. Their blend of melodeath and death doom is a match made for fans like myself making for some of the catchiest songs in the style without ever losing the intensity and brutality the genre entails. Match that with the dark atmosphere that doom has and you have those melodic emotions flowing through you as you listen. A spectacular display of making this style with dynamics and authenticity. Give this one a shot to see how this genre should be done.”

Helevorn:
“We think it can be an intense experience for those who want to connect something very emotional and very philosophic with dark and gloomy music. This album is based on Hauntology, described first by Jaques Derrida and after by the philosopher Mark Fisher. He wrote ‘The Ghosts of My Life’, an amazing book where he describes the ‘slow cancellation of future’ and a lot of great concepts about the specters and the absences. How they make us what we really are. Is a fantastic concept to write a Doom Metal album, isn’t it?”
Josep Brunet (Vocals):
“We started the recording sessions of our fifth album on January 29th, 2024, again with Miquel A Riutord ‘Mega’ at his studios in Inca (Mallorca). The same studio where we recorded our last two albums. The last three years have been very intense for the band due to some lineup changes. The fact is we had to ask Sebastià Barceló (Trallery) to record the drums because it was impossible to find a permanent drummer. Moreover, the last year was very productive (we decided to not play live so much), we composed the eight songs that we had just recorded at the studio. We finished the sessions some days ago.”
Josep continues about the concept of the album:
“We love to write about real things, and we have always done it. This time it came to our hands the book of Mark Fisher ‘Ghosts of my Life’ and we decided that we wanted to talk about it. The ‘hauntology’ gave us the departure point where we started to write non-stop and gave life to our songs. Mark Fisher wrote about how post-Fordism and neoliberalism broke the way that music and culture, in general, were able to create something new, so that’s the ‘slow cancellation of future’. The examples he gave are fantastic. The idea that Fisher talks about the ‘specters’ is the part we have dug more into. How these specters conform to our thoughts, our feelings, and our longings. Indeed, it is something philosophic but at the same time kind of ethereal.”
About the new songs vocalist josep tells us:
“The songs are a bit different than in the past because is the first time that the new guitar player (Alex) has composed the 60% of the album, so we can say that ‘is Helevorn but in a new (but) same way’. You will find the same atmosphere, and the same feelings but played a bit differently. Maybe more raw, with more details, more technique, etc. We really love the way that the band started working with the new members and how they put their ideas in common. We definitely found comfortable with the idea of ‘Mediterranean Doom‘ in our previous album, but now is, without any doubt, less epic, less ‘folkie’, and more Doom and Metal. And as always, we can say that we are so proud of this album and maybe they are the best songs we have ever recorded (is very common to say that, I know).”
Track by Track explained by Josep Brunet:
‘Inherit the Stars’:
“The connection we have with the Universe. What would happen if we all die and the Earth disappears? Very Helevorn Song.”
‘The Defiant God’:
“God gets angry with humankind. Should we pray more or should we fight for him until death?”
‘Signals’:
“The hit. The beginning of the song (the key part that makes you dance) was made with guitar melodies before entering to record the album. It was there that our producer suggested we record a key sequence to make it more ‘gothic’. And there is a guitar solo performed by Biel Gaya that is awesome.”
‘When Nothing Shudders’:
“It starts very slow and it ends very very high. It’s about the genocide of Palestine. Very raw and real.”
‘Unbreakable Silence’:
“Dedicated to Mark Fisher and people who finish their lives due to mental illness. That’s not an individual issue but a problem that we, the society, should work in common.”
‘L’Endemà’:
“A song in Catalan, our mother tongue, with some female vocals performed by Ines Gonzalez. Very heavy, doom, and with a beautiful chorus.”
‘The Lost Futures’:
“The slowest and doomed song we have ever written. Very old school. No future because post-Fordism killed it.”
‘Children of the Sunrise’:
“It was just a piano song that turned into a very special song in the studio with a very special guest appearance of Thomas Jensen of Saturnus. Dedicated to all the children who came to this world to make it a better place. I thought about my two children when I was writing it.”
At the end Josep explains the artwork of the album:
“That’s an old fig tree. In the middle of a dead soil field. But it lives. That tree is not only what it is, it exists due to a series of absences that make it present in the world. That’s the same for the human beings. So that fig tree is moved, so is more than real or maybe is a ghost.”