Israel’s NEOLIA Weave World Music Into Explosive Metal With New Self-Titled Album Out May 2023
Album Mastered by Howie Weinberg (Metallica, Pantera, Nirvana)
Music Video “Blow The Leaves”
Photo Credit – Avi Veldman
Photo Edit by: Rana Sneider
Israel’s Neolia chooses to float in a space where a balance between nirvana and chaos coexists. They create a wild and mystic energy field with their music by incorporating rock/metal with different elements, mostly from Latin and African music. They are releasing their self-titled debut album this coming May 2023 and plan to tour with it internationally while constantly exploring new creative ways to increase their connection with their audience and supporters.
The video for “Blow The Leaves” is now available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/kcsOO7tCf-Y
Spotify – https://spoti.fi/41x1k1j
Musically, the album is a reflection of years of soaking up music of different genres from rock to pop to world music and whatnot. It’s a fusion of bits upon bits of pieces absorbed and processed and then spat out from a personal perspective. In its musical aspect, it’s rock and metal based, but with a twist of African, Latin, Jazz, and ambient that reaches the spectrum of high and low, tender, extreme, and crazy. The band explains the album further:
“The way the music combines with the lyrics is parallel in the sense that it doesn’t tell the story that inspired it in a chronological way, but as a puzzle where the character, Alex, reflects upon fractions of his life, from different phases. We don’t know where Alex ends up in his life, but we do know where he has been, and what he goes through in each place. Each track gives us a glimpse into Alex’s life and describes a certain scene, a thought process, or an emotional conflict from childhood to adulthood. He gets shoved to the margins of society, and follows a long and harsh way in search of purpose and communication with the people around him.”
Neolia formed to give to others and to encourage people to come together (A connection between souls). They formed to give showcase their art in a few dimensions, one that’s personal, and spiritual and the other that is musical and expressive.
Recommended listening for fans of The Mars Volta, Sikth, and Mudvayne, the self-titled album was mastered by Howie Weinberg (Metallica, Pantera, Nirvana) an due out on May 5th, 2023.
Album pre-order is available at https://bandcamp.com/neoliaband
Track Listing:
1. The Shed – 3:44
2. The Shed outro – 0:52
3. Your prophecy – 7:44
4. Dance of violence – 7:10
5. Carried away – 5:49
6. Carried away outro – 1:24
7. Karma – 4:09
8. Karma outro – 0:44
9. Day in day out – 11:06
10. Anchors – 7:14
11. Rise and fall – 5:06
12. Blow the leaves – 7:02
13. A better version of you – 4:53
14. Refahim – 8:00
Album Length: 74:57
For more info: Neoliaband.com | Facebook.com/neoliaband | Instagram.com/neoliaband
