Catch us on our European tour in March!
Hailing from Budapest, melodic hardcore/metalcore outfit Satelles achieved what they wanted on their last two albums. While ‘Some Got Saved’ (2018) was a pure angst parade in the veins of Life Long Tragedy or Killing The Dream, written around the topic of the regime change in 1990, their latest full-length, ‘3AM Confessions’ (2021) expanded their sound with influences from post-hardcore, screamo, even local folklore or blues. The album’s main concept was written with the metaphor of a sleepless night with sensitive yet lifetime-changing questions about politics, history and our responsibility for taking actions against oppression. Mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan), mixed by Markus Matzinger (Implore, Six-Score), the release also gained the momentum for another headline European tour for two weeks, an Album of the Year mention by NuSkull.hu’s editors, and a handful of live shows with the likes of Touche Amore, While She Sleeps or even Enter Shikari.
On ‘Arcadia’, Satelles also revisits their past. The four-tracks release boldly touches the transitioning metalcore inspirations from the 2000s, resembling with the heritage of Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Poison the Well or Heartscarved, while the main driver of the songs can be still defined with the bittersweet, Eastern-European melodic hardcore tone what the band tried to secure in the past years. Unlike the previous two full-lengths, there’s only a soft veil of concept around the Arcadian trope, personal revelations and the Eastern-European societies’ Messiah-complex with a hard take on nationalism. The release has been mastered again by Alan Douches and mixed by Andreas Magnusson, the drummer of Scarlet who also worked with the likes of Twelve Tribes, The Black Dahlia Murder or Despised Icon.
