Oath Of Cranes - the new band from ex-Celtic Frost drummer Franco Sesa and ex-Celtic Frost guitarist Erol Ünala - turn doom metal on its head. Today they celebrate their debut album The Unsung Mantras, released via Klang Machine Records.
The group have also released the video for their track 'Krodhana', which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/NmySPR-WGn0
Purchase The Unsung Mantras:
Digital: https://oathofcranes.lnk.to/theunsungmantras
2LP Vinyl & merch: https://kmm.rocks/oathofcranes
Oath Of Cranes will make their live premiere with special guests Tar Pond (ft. former Coroner drummer Marky Edelmann) at Undertown, Geneva, on 27th May: Tickets / More info
Franco Sesa combines his passion for eastern traditional music — particularly the mantra chants of Tibetan monks — with his love for hard rock to create a genuinely innovative wall of sound. From meditation gongs, Buddhist chants and bagpipe-evoking Tibetan horns to walls of distorted guitars, Sesa’s trademark heavy-hitting drumming, and the haunting desperation in Fabrizio Merico’s vocals: the incredible energy created by combining in-your-face doom metal with influences from Eastern music and Shamanic cultures creates goosebumps throughout The Unsung Mantras.
Following a years-long creative process following Sesa’s departure from Celtic Frost (and eventually seeing his reunion with fellow ex-Celtic Frost warrior Erol Ünala), The Unsung Mantras is widely available now.
The songs on The Unsung Mantras are dark and disturbing, yet beautiful and healing: traditional instruments and sounds from Asian heritage and cultures with shamanic roots, including singing bowls, horns and Tibetan monks' chants, support the powerful and innovative metal celebrated on the album. The result vividly underscores the album's Daoism-inspired concept and the band's broader cultural influences, such as the choice of Sanskrit for song titles, imagery inspired by the Sadhu tradition, and the tribute to the uplifting virtues described by the iconography of Hindu deities. The Oath Of the Cranes is a promise: good death follows a good life.