Following the explosive singles “Fire” , “Cross The Line” , and “Warriors Of Metal” , guitarist and producer Val Santos shares today, the 29th, “Dead Words”, a track featuring vocals by Leandro Caçoilo and a guitar solo by Felipe Machado , from VIPER . This new release marks the fourth single from the artist's first solo album, 1986 , which arrives on May 28th via Wikimetal Music.
“One of the heaviest songs on the album, it also features the lowest tuning, in C,” explains Santos about the single, whose cover art was designed by the talented Vini Dias, recommended by the artist's partner, who will also be responsible for the track's lyric video. “I initially composed this song thinking of Black Sabbath , but it went in a bit like Metallica , but with Leandro [Caçoilo]'s voice, it went more towards hard rock. So in my opinion, it's something that mixes Black Sabbath with Metallica and Alice In Chains Wah Wah pedal .”
Demonstrating his experience as a great musician, Val Santos admits that "Dead Words" doesn't follow the 80s sound that the project celebrates and focuses on; however, considering the song's quality, his intuition as an artist led him to include it on the album and as the fourth single from the release. "I'm very eclectic in that regard, even within heavy metal I don't like to follow any rules, I like all the branches that the style offers, I go from hard rock to thrash easily, passing through the traditional," he reveals.
1986 , an album arriving on May 28th, is Val's tribute to the 1980s, the decade in which he began listening to heavy metal and interacting with and working with bands that were emerging on the Brazilian scene, such as VIPER, Vodu , and Volkana .
Listen to “Dead Words” below.
