IRIST – Sign With Nuclear Blast Records

Atlanta, GA outfit IRIST have officially signed with Nuclear Blast and will have their debut album, “Order Of The Mind“, out via the label on March 27. A music video directed by Mount Emult (Pixies, Dying Fetus) for their new single “Burning Sage” can be viewed above. Pre-orders for the album itself are available now here.

The band’s vocalist Rodrigo Carvalho had the following to say of this track:

“‘Burning Sage‘s’ frantic rhythmic patterns and ritualistic imagery made our choice to work with Mount Emult rather easy. We wanted to convey this song’s dark atmosphere. Mount Emult’s exciting collage work allowed us to do just that. ‘Burning Sage‘ is about overcoming negative emotions – the process is represented as a ritual in which these emotions are purged. It made sense to use imagery that were a part of different cultures to illustrate how universal this theme is.”

Nuclear Blast is a record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic death metal, grindcore, power metal and black metal bands, as well as tribute albums. Nuclear Blast is widely respected as the top label for the melodic metal scene, along with fellow non-RIAA label Century Media. The label’s main office is in Donzdorf, Göppingen. Nuclear Blast America is distributed through Century Media, as part of a strategic partnership between the two independent metal labels. Their most successful artists include Blind Guardian, Soilwork, In Flames, Meshuggah, Therion, Dimmu Borgir, Nile, Death, Sonata Arctica, Epica, Wintersun, and Nightwish.