“When we first started jamming through the shanty rhythm with that heavy as balls riff we knew that ‘When the Sun Bursts’ had to be the first single from our new record" said singer Simon Bismarck. “We have a lot of different stuff to this next album, and this track felt like the perfect gateway into our new world…“  

Building on their acclaimed debut ‘Stagmata’, ‘When the Sun Bursts’ delves further into their eclectic tendencies, overlaying massive doom riffs with progressive sea shanties and falsetto wails.

WHEN THE SUN BURSTS

Inspired by the 1920 novel ''Nyarlathotep'' by H.P. Lovecraft. The song tells the story of the outer god Nyarlathotep, waking up from Egypt, arriving in a small town, teaching inhabitants forbidden knowledges, leading them to mental insanity, confusion and eventually death.

Nyarlathotep The Crawling Chaos

Stand to attention, you cowards and thieves
Many enter this doorway, and nobody leaves
You may try to fight it, but nobody wins
So let's begin

Surrender all your hopes, they are useless to you now
Let go of all your dreams, just drop to your knees and bow
Your life is not your own, you no longer have a voice
Bow down to my throne, it's not like you have a choice

Fight for your life
Give me the will to stay alive
Fight for your life
To die by the honour of the knife
Fight for your life
Give me the will to stay alive
Fight for your life
Only the ruthless will survive

You've travelled a distance, it took many years
So now you must prove that it's been worth all the tears
Say goodbye to your family, you'll never see them again
Pick a sword or a dagger and join the thrones of men

You will fight my war
It won't be long until your blood is on the floor
Your faith is tested till your soul and bones are sore
There's nothing you can do
No less and no more than the oath that you swore

Fight for your life (My throne)
Give me the will to stay alive (My throne)
Fight for your life (My home)
To die by the honour of the knife
Fight for your life (My throne)
Give me the will to stay alive (My throne)
Fight for your life (My home)
Only the ruthless will survive

Lay down your life (Your life)
You have no choice (Your life)
Lay down your life (Your life)
You have no choice (Your life)
Lay down your life (Your life)
You have no choice (Your life)
Lay down your life (Your life)
You have no choice (Your life)

My throne
My throne
My home

My Throne

First song video release on youtube on Oct. 31, 2024:

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Same song released on streaming platforms with improved mixing and mastering on January, 29, 2025.

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It was a dark and stormy night, one late summers eve in 2016, when five men convened to test which beers to serve at the wedding of one of their party. Someone in the party (no one remembers exactly who) realised they should take advantage of their status as vaguely competent musicians, living varying shades of the rock n’ roll life and play a show for the Stag Do. 

A little later, after much bravado it was decided that nothing more than a European Festival would suffice. After a few more rounds rock supergroup Bleeding Antlers were born.  
Sensing mischief was in the air, Hobgoblin Beer engaged with the band to produce a documentary charting their journey from their debut London show to playing he main stage of a European Festival, getting band tattoos, and recording some original material. The rest as they say, is a blur....

In 2021 the band emerged from quarantine to release their debut album ‘Stagmata’.

Nocleansinging.com describes ‘Stagmata’ as “answering the age old question of what would happen if you took the catchiest bits of Candlemass, the hookiest parts of Paradise Lost, added a dash of the grim grandeur of Primordial and a touch of almost Nu-Metal-ish groove, and then laced the whole thing with a hefty helping of folk-goth glamour, Hammer-horror camp, and drunken satanic swagger?

Well, you’d have a hell of a good time, I can tell you that.”

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