BLAXEM (modern metal) challenge the reality of the world with their new “Ethereal” music video, new album ‘Ethereal’ out now!
Watch the punishing new “Ethereal” music video via YouTube, and listen to the album on all platforms via this location
New EP album Ethereal produced by Dann Hidalgo and Guille Malatesta available everywhere now!
Blaxem are a devastatingly heavy modern metal band from Chile, a beacon of light in dark times accompanied by a distinct heavy feel that rings true. The band just premiered another new music video, entitled “Ethereal” which is the title track and third music video from their new album Ethereal which was just released on May 16, 2025 via Eclipse Records. The album was produced by Dann Hidalgo and Guille Malatesta, engineered & mixed by Dann Hidalgo, and mastered by Hakeen Mishea. Available now on all platforms at this location.
“Ethereal is the track that gives the EP its name, so we wanted this video to capture the very essence of the song.” says vocalist/guitarist Dann Hidalgo. “We wanted at first to shoot the video in a forest nearby but at the time we went it was close, and luckily one of the camera guys knew the abandoned railway, and it was a miracle. This was the perfect place but as it was a public space, we almost set up a live show as people started getting curious and stayed watching us record the video.”
Blaxem serve up a raucous monster-mash of hard driving burn n’ crunch with their new EP Ethereal. The album is amazingly uplifting in not only the unadulterated rawness of the musical presentation, but in its passion and power. More specifically, track to track, listeners will notice non-linear, clever songwriting chock full of twists, turns, and satisfying surprises as well as lead guitar performances that would bend our hearts to the breaking point and dazzle our senses with such intricate, power-shredding that one stands amazed that so many sweet notes could fit in one measure. As for overall theming, the band seems to illustrate world-culture as a pilgrimage of starless gloom through which we overcome our lack of purpose and direction through truth, strength, and empathy. That said, listeners will rejoice in this glorious journey through the underworld of gut-wrenching riffs and long shadowed caverns, thunderous drums and old stone corridors lit only by the dim and damp glow of torches flickering along the stories of the shattered world written on the walls in dark blood. The bass guitar is lethal phantom, banging in the attic, knocking about in the tool shed, pounding under the cellar stairs, and the growl vocal rips open your soul, raising haunted angels from the red mist to sing you a death knell. Ethereal features cover art designed by Hakeen Mishea and it was released on May 16, 2025 by Eclipse Records.
Listen to Ethereal on all platforms at https://ffm.to/blxeth
For more information about Blaxem and their “Ethereal” album, please visit them on Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Eclipse Records and follow them on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Deezer now!
Ethereal track listing
01. Grey Summit
02. Miscellaneous
03. Ethereal
04. Images of Tomorrow
05. Radiant Abyss
Blaxem lineup
Dann Hidalgo (vocals and guitar), Guille Malatesta (lead guitar), Chelo Romanini (bass and backing vocals), Robert Unger (drums)
