Black Heart DeVicious

• 1 Afterlife 04:48
• 2 Heroines 06:09
• 3 A Special Mind 05:39
• 4 Liar 03:46
• 5 Black Heart 04:47
• 6 Not What it Seems 05:39
• 7 Welcome The Night 05:10
• 8 After Midnight 04:52
• 9 Falling 04:59
• 10 Miles Away 05:13
• 11 Escape from Reality (Bonus Track) 03:51
• 12 Axenya's Dream (Bonus Track) 02:45
• Total Runtime 57:38

Info for Black Heart

After the surprising success of their previous long player „Phase Three“ DeVicious is back with their highly anticipated 4th Studio album „Black Heart“!eartHeart Having previously produced three albums in only three years, the international outfit based in Germany decided to use the pandemic enforced break wisely to take their time for the song writing and production and eventually ended up 137 days producing their most melodic, heaviest, most angry yet freshest and most unique album to date.

Being in Lockdown for 1,5 years and being forced to see the events going down around the world had a big impact on the lyrics and the music. DeVicious went back to the studio with one cardinal rule: don’t copy yourself and no stylistic influence is off the table as long as it is fun to play and the melody is big enough.

Band leader & producer Alex Frey wanted to create a different atmosphere as on the previous albums. DeVicious have always defined themselves through big arena type melodies, which often comes with limitations of style and a particular lack of freedom. Black Heart“ contains influences from traditional Hard Rock, Metal, Melodic Metal, Progressive Rock and even EDM sounds found their way into the production.

DeVicious will also release their own comic book series „Dollhouse DV“ in 2022. The main characters of the comics are the models on the covers for the „Black Heart“ album and its singles. The comics and artwork were created in entirety by the band. Three of the 12 songs are part of the official Soundtrack for the comic books…

„Black Heart“ was produced by Alex Frey at Tower 13 Studios, Karlsruhe, mixed by Patrick Damiani at Tidalwave Studios Karlsdorf and mastered by Robin Schmidt at 96kHz Mastering Karlsruhe. Additional backing vocals by Michael Bormann (Michael Bormann’s Jaded Hard) and Baol Bardot Bulsara (TNT).

Antonio Calanna, vocals
Alex Frey, bass
Radivoj Petrovic, guitar
Lars Nippa, drums
Denis Kunz, keyboards
Guests:
Michael Bormann, vocals
Baol Bardot Bulsara, vocals

DeVicious
is a dynamic melodic rock band from Germany whose scorching anthems are destined to thrill music fans all over the world. They’ve supported the likes of Hardline and Crystal Ball on tour, and recently unleashed Phase Three – their latest magnum available on Metalapolis Records. Highwire Daze caught up with bassist Alex Frey to find out more about this amazing collective ready to set the melodic rock planet on fire with their memorable songs and exhilarating live shows.

Introduce yourself, tell me what you do in DeVicious, and how long the band has been together.

I am Alex, the bass player of DeVicious and I am also the main songwriter and producer for the band. The idea of DeVicious was born Summer 2016 during a steak dinner. We ended up in the Studio January 2017 where we began writing and recording our first album Never Say Never which was named one of the huge positive surprise releases in 2018 when it was released. We also won a couple of Album of the Year awards from European Rock websites and Radio Stations.

This album contains no booklet.