Hiraes

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Hiraes is a German melodic death metal band from Osnabrück, which consists of former members of Dawn of Disease and Britta Görtz, the former singer of Critical Mess & Cripper. In 2020, the former Dawn of Disease bandmates teamed up with singer Britta Görtz of Critical Mess under the name Hiraes. Dawn of Disease disbanded following the departure of singer Tomasz Wisniewski who began to fully focus on Nyktophobia in 2020.[1] Up to this point the band had released five studio albums. Singer Britta Görtz also released a total of five studio albums with her former band Cripper and then two more studio albums with her successor band Critical Mess. On 25 June 2021, Hiraes released their debut album "Solitary" on Napalm Records. In an interview with the music magazine Rock Hard, Görtz reports that all of the songs on the album were written when the band was still nameless but already complete. The band name comes from the Welsh word "Hiraeth", which stands for nostalgia, melancholy and holding on to places of the past that never existed and the longing for them. "Our music reflects this very well", explains Görtz. In an interview with the music magazine Metal Hammer, the band reports how much the pandemic has shaped their musical work. While the album "Solitary" deals thematically with the experiences of being alone during the pandemic, "Dormant" deals with the search for one's own path, for resilience and inner strength. Hiraes' second album "Dormant" was released on 24 January 2024, again by Napalm Records and reached number 36 in the German album charts. Musically, Hiraes is described as a mixture of Arch Enemy and The Halo Effect and compared to the genre greats Dark Tranquillity, Insomnium, In Flames and Soilwork.

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