NAMI Signs With YEAR OF THE SUN RECORDS

Andorra-based metal outfit NAMI has inked a deal with Year Of The Sun Records for the North American release of its new album, "Fragile Alignments". Due later this spring, the CD will also be made available by Kaiowas Records in Spain and Season of Mist/Klonosphere in France.

NAMI's complex sound is often compared to that of OPETH, MESHUGGAH and GOJIRA.

"Ever since Year Of The Sun contacted us, we haven't been able to stop thinking about our music crossing the ocean, a fact that is reinforced by the optimism and the wonderful attitude of this label. We are more than happy to sign on with Year Of The Sun Records!!! We just feel at home,” commented drummer Sergi Verdeguer.

With "Fragile Alignments", NAMI has constructed a journey that is rich with emotion and forged by a legitimate heaviness.

After completing the initial recording of "Fragile Alignments", the band traveled to Örebro, Sweden, where producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, AMON AMARTH, KATATONIA) put the finishing touches on the project by mixing and mastering the new record.

"When I first heard NAMI, I was blown away by the strength and maturity from this young act," states Bogren. "Watch out, great metal is climbing down from Andorra."

Bogren's impression of the band is strongly echoed by Year Of The Sun president C. Benner.

"When I first listened to 'Fragile Alignments', I realized that there was something special happening within the first ninety seconds," says Benner. "It was immediate. Then I spoke to the band about the concepts behind the music, it then it really blew me away."

"Fragile Alignments" is a conceptual album where every song is a part of the same story with the distinction being that "[the individual tracks are] not in chronological order, which gives the listener a few different ways to listen to the album," says Sergi Verdeguer.

"The starting point of the album is freedom, represented by the capacity of choice by a single human being. He proceeds on a journey, surrounded by reflections of good or right and evil or wrong.

"'Fragile Alignments' is a project that we've worked really hard on and I think it shows in the content of this record. We've really put our heart into it."

"Fragile Alignments" track listing:

01. Awakening From Lethargy
02. The Inner Man: Materia
03. The Growing (Earth)
04. Oppression and Understanding (Fire)
05. Loop of Truth (The Link)
06. Cosmical Beginning (Air)
07. Conscience of the Void: From Oblivion to the Renew (Water)
08. The Inner Man: Anti-Materia
09. The Pattern

"Awakening From Lethargy" audio stream:

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