Brother Against Brother have released Primal War In Heaven, the opening track of The Legion Awakens, which Frontiers put out on 18 December.
Marcelo Gelbcke says it was also the first thing he and Sergio Mazul wrote for the record, and that it ended up where it started. He describes it as classic heavy metal, Queensryche and Iron Maiden in the melodies, run through seven string guitars for the low end.
Mazul wrote the words after years of reading Solomon and Enoch and watching films about angels at war, and he is clear that a song about Heaven and Hell is not an original idea. I consider it a rare thing to do it properly, is roughly his position.
The album is a concept built on duality, with each track taking one side: faith and transcendence on one, temptation and destruction on the other, and the conclusion that both are needed. Renan Zonta of Electric Mob and Nando Fernandes share the singing.
It is the second album from the project Gelbcke and Mazul started after their first Icon Of Sin record in 2020.