Truthsayer Outshine

• 1 Enough 04:01
• 2 Emptiness Inside 04:54
• 3 Our Minds 03:26
• 4 You Are Not Alone 04:00
• 5 I Am Darkness 04:25
• 6 The Darkest Place 03:37
• 7 Screaming Silence 05:51
• 8 World Ending Fascists, Pt. 1 02:08
• 9 World Ending Fascists, Pt. 2 05:09
• Total Runtime 37:31

Info zu Truthsayer

The brilliant new dark alternative metal album from Outshine titled Truthsayer has something for every rock and metal fan, including rich guitar work, haunting keys, a powerful back beat, and mesmerizing vocals. Musically, the feel is wonderfully diverse, with parts and parcels working together to craft a vision both dark and distinct, disturbing, yet hopeful. The keys are eerie and foreboding, leading us down shadowed corridors with hypnotic vocal harmonies that often split into octaves, as if to show contrasting views of the world existing atop each other like fog on cobblestone and the sun on the sea.

In terms of raw pathos, the band plays its listener like an instrument that coaxes emotions from the soul and paints them like colors on a canvas and poems in the skyline. Concurrently, Outshine’s fans do not feel alone on an island. They are part of something big, something greater than themselves, something universally and collectively profound, though their specific part is unique and important. The band is all about the bare truth, about finding answers and building bridges. And they do so by example. No one in this project – himself owns the spotlight, and that is their superpower. Lockstep. Synchronized. Stronger together.

Lyrically, the band blasts the elite, biased media and totalitarianism, depicting a world distorted with poison as common people are kept in a metaphorical asylum of sorts, locked in their rooms, screaming silently from behind sound-proofed glass. It puts us slightly off balance, as these messages of doom are superimposed on music with such a chunk and satisfying groove vibe. In the end, the band tells us that shadows recede. Hell turns to hope. Night ends with dawn, and the ashes of a scorched earth can produce an awesome rising phoenix. This band is for real, and Truthsayer is nothing less than a magnificent megaphone.

"Truthsayer feels comfortable in its own skin – unapologetic in its determination to espouse the sound of the 90s/early 2000s to a new generation maybe not as familiar with that great period of gothic, darker alternative metal. Outshine keeps executing from the heart, and the fans will benefit from their output through each successive record." (Matt Coe, deadrhetoric.com)

Jimmy Boman, vocals, guitars, synthesizers, piano
Robert Petersson, drums
Niklas Ingvarsson, bass
Par Arvidsson, guitar, backing vocals

Produced and recorded by Kenny Boufadene and Jimmy Boman at Studio Meltdown in Kingsbacka, Sweden

Outshine
Dark melancholy rock/metal band Outshine (Gothenburg Sweden) has had one of the rockiest histories you could imagine. Outshine has released 4 albums starting 2007, done 7th US tours between 2005-2018 and numerous European tours. The band started out in 1996 when founder, guitarist and vocalist Jimmy Boman but more as a studio project until 2002.

Moving forward they released "Prelude to Descent" fall 2013 with great reviews, did a Scandinavian tour with Gothic Metal icons Paradise Lost but got robbed when arriving back home from the tour that created a turmoil of issues, deceptions and fights that didn´t end until 2016.

During 2015 a new album started to take form but numerous re-recordings and band members changes pushed the release date nearly 4 years.

The new album was finally released in February 2018 after years of lawsuits with Swedish tax authorities (won in court spring 2017), band member deceptions, murder threats and trials concerning lost property. A mayhem of anxiety was finally over? No quite...

The release of the new album was followed by a new tour, this time in the Ireland & UK in February 2018 again with Paradise Lost. But after the tour turmoil struck the band and the departure of the singer went ugly and there was no other way then to start over from scratch.

Finally, at peace, the band is now releasing new singles and videos for the songs "Love Is Dead" and "Nightcall" and founder and guitarist Jimmy Boman (Ex-Norberg) has taken on the vocals. "Love Is Dead" & "Nightcall" is marking a direction back to the dark, gothic metal roots Outshine once came from and the re-build has now started.

The band, Jimmy Boman (ex-Norberg) (guitars, vocals) and Niklas Ingvarsson (bass), joined by session musicians live, is now working on a new album.

The sound will be different, more of a Sisters Of Mercy/Type O Negative feel to it and with a darker, melancholy feel to it. The new not yet titled album will be produced by Kenny Boufadene at Studio Meltdown and recorded at Grand Recordings in Gothenburg. The band is currently also looking for a label.

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