PRIEST - Ascend To Another Dimension With Dark Electronic Reimagining Of RAMMSTEIN’S “ENGEL”

Los Angeles, CA – With two back-to-back tours across the US and Europe, festival dates, and a brand-new single all happening in rapid-fire succession, you might think that PRIEST never sleep, instead fueled by the phantom power of some otherworldly, extraterrestrial entity. While we cannot confirm or deny the validity of that claim, we can attest to the awe-inspiring magnitude of their most recent release, a truly transformative take on Rammstein’s “Engel.” PRIEST’S “Engel” hammers the mechanized edge of the original into a skin-splitting, piercingly sharp point, with a pounding, bass-heavy beat, gritty, distorted vocal overdubs, and a delicately velveteen, ethereal melody, compliments of female vocalist and PRIEST visual artist, Greta Helling. PRIEST reimagine the original by stripping it down to its nuclear core, before quantizing and constructing a truly unique coalescence of electronic and melodic instrumentation that is all their own.

Stream/download the single: https://orcd.co/priest_engel

Rammstein’s “Engel” was released in April 1997 as the first single from their second album, Sehnsucht (Desire), along with a music video inspired by the 1996 Quentin Tarantino film, From Dusk Till Dawn. “Engel” made its own on-screen debut during the closing credits of November 1997’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and earned its place in the top three of the German singles chart, in addition to being certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for the sale of over 250,000 copies.

“Engel” serves as a standout single from the upcoming full-length feature, A Tribute To Rammstein, available worldwide on August 25th. This power-packed compilation features old and new school industrial acts, including Manntra, Stoneman, and Julien-K, joining forces with vanguard veterans, Front Line Assembly, Laibach, Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory), Paul Ferguson (Killing Joke), and Skold (KMFDM/Shotgun Messiah), for a one-of-a-kind aggrotech amalgamation of industrial and dark electro.

Pre-order the physical:

https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/a-tribute-to-rammstein-cd/ 

https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/a-tribute-to-rammstein-cassette/

Pre-save the digital: https://orcd.co/variousartists_atributetorammstein

TRACK LIST:

1. Du Hast – Burton C Bell, Big Paul Ferguson & MGT 

2. Deutschland – Front Line Assembly feat. Dino Cazares 

3. Sonne – Skold 

4. Engel – Priest 

5. Amerika – Laibach

6. Feuer Frei! – The 69 Eyes

7. Ausländer – Jah Wobble & Jon Klein

8. Radio – Julien-K 

9. Ich Will – Stoneman

10. Keine Lust – Lacrimas Profundere

11. Links 2 3 4 – Manntra

12. Mein Teil – Original God

13. Du Hast – Leæther Strip

PRIEST’S “Engel” arrives just in time to celebrate the conclusion of their US summer tour, alongside fellow electro-industrial icons, Powerman 5000 and Julien-K, and the first of their festival dates in Finland.

If you haven’t had a chance to see them yet, don’t miss out, and be sure to catch them in Tampa and across Europe this fall!

PRIEST ONLY

22 September STOCKHOLM, SE Nalen Klub

05 October TAMPA, FL Absolution Fest

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30 October TAMPERE, FI Olympia 

31 October HELSINKI, FI Tavasti

02 November COPENHAGEN, DK Stengade

04 November HAMBURG, DE Markthalle

05 November UTRECHT, NL Tivolivredenburg

06 November ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE, LU Rockhal

08 November BRISTOL, GB The Fleece

09 November MANCHESTER, GB Rebellion

10 November NOTTINGHAM, GB Rescue Rooms

11 November NEWCASTLE, GB Newcastle Uni

12 November LONDON, GB Scala

14 November ANTWERP, BE Kavka

15 November BOCHUM, DE Zeche

16 November ASCHAFFENBURG, DE Colos-Saal

17 November PARIS, FR La Maroquinerie

18 November BARCELONA, ES Apolo 2

19 November MADRID, ES Sala Mon

22 November LYON, FR Rock n Eat Live

23 November PRATTELN, CH Z-7

24 November MEZZAGO, IT Bloom Club

25 November MUNICH, DE Strom

26 November WIEN, AT Szene

27 November LJUBLJANA, SI Orto Bar

29 November BUCHAREST, RO Quantic Bar

01 December BUDAPEST, HU Barba Negra

02 December WINTER, CZ Masters of Rock

03 December KRAKOW, PL Kamienna 12

04 December WARSAW, PL Hydrozagadka

05 December BERLIN, DE Hole 44

06 December LEIPZIG, DE Hellraiser

14 December OSLO, NO John Dee

15 December KARLSTAD, SE Nöjesfabriken

16 December STOCKHOLM, SE Slaktkyrkan

17 December GÖTEBORG, SE Pustervik