TRVE x Eulogy Presents: **Wayfarer**

with Sonja and Valdrin

Saturday, May 11th 2024

Eulogy - 10 Buxton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801

Doors 7PM || Show 8PM

**Wayfarer**

WAYFARER (Century Media) is the pre-eminent Western American Metal band. Composed of four black clad players from Denver, Colorado, the band’s sound draws from the deep wells of black metal, gothic country, and americana - creating a thunderous and uniquely American genre of metal all to their own. After ten years of existence, the band presents AMERICAN GOTHIC - a defining statement of Western heavy music that explores the dark soul of the nation itself. This time working alongside accomplished producer Arthur Rizk (Eternal Champion, Kreator) the band brings an aggressive and expansive vision to life in a new full length LP. Led by powerful riffing, bleak melodic sensibilities, and pointed songwriting, this record serves as a funeral for the American dream. Caked in dust, and buried deep in blood and gunpowder, it paints a brutal and beautiful portrait, and sees WAYFARER elevate their unique and genuine brand of metal to new heights. “What we have now is a world full of oil drillers, and railroad barons. Cattle thieves and company men. This is the new American Gothic.”

**Sonja**

In 2014, Melissa Moore birthed the idea for the Gothic Rock Heavy Metal band Sonja while having an existential meltdown on a strung out flight home from Melbourne to Philadelphia. After calling drummer Grzesiek Czapla upon landing and later inviting bassist Ben Brand, the power trio plunged deep into secret places where fear and pain were transformed into obsessive pop hook-laced metal. The years that followed were filled with ruinous sexuality, gender apocalypse, casual encounters, generosity, discretion, danger, desire, paranoia, passion, and endless rock n roll.

"Loud Arriver" is the band’s 2022 debut full length that was released on Cruz Del Sur Music (mixed by Arthur Rizk). Featuring the Zev Deans directed music video for "Nylon Nights", Sonja began the perpetual cycle of touring the US and Europe. Festival and tour appearances continue as the band writes their follow up album and are pulled deeper into submission to their goddess, Heavy Metal.

**Valdrin**

Valdrin is a melodic black/death metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio. Formed in 2010, the band began writing music for what would become the debut album “Beyond the Forest.”The album was released through Blast Head Records in June 2014 and received positive feedback from many media outlets including Decibel, who gave the debut an 8/10 rating.

During that time, the band began playing live all across the tri-state area surrounding Ohio, and started recording the sophomore album, “Two Carrion Talismans” which was released in October of 2018 by Blood Harvest records. This album saw the band’s international presence grow, with great reviews from Metal Injection and other outlets. During this time the band expanded their live presence, appearing in cities such as Philadelphia, Richmond (VA), and Atlanta, where they took part in the annual Mass Destruction Fest alongside bands such as Nile, Terrorizer, Sigh, Deceased, Demolition Hammer and many others. It was at this festival that the band made contact with the promoter, Cody Martin of Mass Destruction Booking, who became the band’s booking agent.

In 2020, Valdrin released their third album, “Effigy of Nightmares” on Blood Harvest which significantly raised their international reputation, attaining glowing reviews in Metal Injection and features in such articles as “The Obituarist,” where Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder praised the album. After the Covid pandemic began to dissipate, the band embarked on some short tours June of 2022 and September 2023 which saw the band playing in new cities across the east coast and mid western United States.

On November 24th of 2023 Valdrin released their fourth full length album entitled “Throne of the Lunar Soul,” to widespread acclaim in the metal underground. The goal of the band is to promote this album and tour as much as possible, and eventually be able to play gigs overseas in continents such as Europe and South America, where the band's following has continued to grow.

This is an all ages event

Presented by Eulogy.

Burial Beer Company LLC dba Burial Beer Co

Burial Music Hall

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