PSYCHOTIC EYES To Release Acoustic Death Metal Album In June

In late 2014, Brazilian progressive death metal band, Psychotic Eyes, wrote a new chapter in metal history. The band had lost its drummer and received an invitation to play an important show. Once they did not want to miss the opportunity, the idea of presenting an acoustic show seemed ideal: death metal played with two acoustic guitars, guttural vocals and no drums.

What seemed unlikely has become history! Never before had been an acoustic death metal show like that one presented at Galeria Olido in Sao Paulo. The avant-garde spirit of Psychotic Eyes gained projection in the media worldwide. The final result was so good that get into the studio and record some songs in this format became inevitable.

Olhos Vermelhos (Red Eyes in english) is the title that Dimitri Brandi (vocal/acoustic guitars) and Douglas Gatuso (vocal/acoustic guitars) have chosen for what will be the third official album by Psychotic Eyes – being entirely acoustic – and also the first acoustic death metal album in history.

Olhos Vermelhos is being recorded at HBC Records in Guarulhos/SP with production by Humberto Belozupko. The album will bring two unreleased tracks, “Olhos Vermelhos” based on a poem written by Luiz Carlos Barata Cichetto and “Memento Mori”. Also included in the tracklisting, in new arrangements, are “The Hand of Fate”, a song that appeared on the band’s self-titled debut album, as well as “Life” and “Dying Grief”, both from the second studio album, I Only Smile Behind The Mask (2011).

“The recordings are awesome, the material will be fantastic”, says the euphoric Dimitri Brandi. “They are just taking more time than we expected, because to record death metal with acoustic guitars is proving a much more difficult task than expected. As the guitar is an acoustic instrument, everything we do is picked up by the microphone. A guitarist and bassist used to play harder on the strings produces many cavernous noises that do not sound well in the recording. This has made the process take longer than would a recording with electric instruments, but the result is getting amazing”.

Olhos Vermelhos will be released in June. Details about formats and distribution platforms will be announced soon.