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Towards the madness of the world


Action: EUFOBIA
Title: Madness
Base: Sofia • Bulgaria
Style: Thrash Death Metal
Genre: Thrash Metal, Death Metal
FFO: Sepultura, Rotting Christ, Death
Type: Full-length
Format: CD
Label: Wizard LTD.
Release: June 10, 2022


Bulletpoints:
🔘 New & third album of the Bulgarian Death Metallers
🔘 Content exciting nuclear war end time concept
🔘 Also visually lavishly staged




[ Video by Nikolay Tsvetkov • Ronin Cinema House ]


The band says about "Wolf Among The Sheep":
"The style of the song is a deliberately idiosyncratic mix of Thrash and Melodic Death Metal. The lyrics of the song are about how we have to defend ourselves against those people who we once let into our lives because they pretended to be our friends. People we actually wanted to help - but instead of being grateful, they unfortunately took advantage of our kindness and even tried to destroy us. The main roles in the video are played by the members of the airsoft team 'Brothers In Arms' and Maria Georgieva, who is already known from our previous video for the song 'Madness'."

Singer and guitarist Niki gives info on the original inspiration for the lyrical content of "Wolf Among The Sheep":
"'Wolf Among The Sheep' is a song about betrayal. Only the people who are close to us can betray us because we trust them. This reminds me of a story from my past.
Our first band manager was a woman who initially gave us valuable advice on what we should do to maximize our impact on potential audiences. So she and I gradually became friends, and I was convinced that she was my best friend. When she had problems with her ex-husband, who, by the way, I'm still friends with today, I stood by her and helped her get through the ugly breakup that followed.
When the time came to release a truly professional album, there was no one willing to invest in an unknown underground band without any experience from the former communist bloc, as Eufobia was at the time, so with great effort and hardship I managed to raise a considerable amount of money out of my own pocket to pay for a high-quality recording and a professional video. I even took out a loan, which I later paid off over eight long years.
Then my so-called best friend, who was also a concert promoter among other things, asked me to give her almost all of my money to organize a concert for a world famous band. She promised to give me back my money right after the concert. I was so naive.
The concert was a great success. I attended it and saw with my own eyes that the hall was full, but the next day she tried to lie to me that it was a total loss and she had no money to pay me back. I may have been naive, but not that much. I later found out that she had told other people that this had been her plan from the beginning. She had wanted to worm her way into my trust just to take advantage of me.
That was a hard blow, but I recovered from it and even managed to record the album as I had planned and shoot the video. I learned a valuable lesson that way, which is to never trust ungrateful and treacherous bitches who pretend to be victims, because sometimes things are not what they seem, and there is rarely smoke without fire. Nowadays I always pay attention to red flags."



Mighty and threatening thunders from the Bulgarian capital Sofia ... fatal cause:
EUFOBIA hail with their important third studio album brute and martial in the ears! This extremely determined disc is clearly created with gallons of the most rebellious heart and with immense compositional joy. And you can clearly hear the massive further development of the THRASH DEATH METAL troupe.


[ Artwork: Val Volegna • 12 DROPS Design ]



Fact is: absolute artistic openness prevails here in all conceivable musical matters. Contemporary baptized with the programmatic and socially apt album title "Madness", these indomitable hell souls reveal the successful striving for artistic identity. Fortunately successful: EUFOBIA show on their 'new' a very own face! 



Outstanding specialty of the much-cursing death horde in all their new creations: brutally aggressive, technically adept and really fat guitar assaults! Heaps of razor-sharp riff canonades are to be experienced, which not infrequently ignite as quickly as a giant tank filled to the brim with fresh kerosene.

And also with their capably handled lead axe, EUFOBIA conjure wonderfully massive earworm moments out of the boxes again and again. Remarkably fit in instrumental interplay, noticeably skilled in the passes and with gigantic enthusiasm at the start, the flaming world critic quartet stands out from many competitors with its new furious output. 




[ EUFOBIA 2022 • Pic: Mariyan Tomov ]



Performing with martial and at all times confidently hewn rhythmic earthquakes, the truly bone-crunching and edgy drum work on this superbly crafted release is by no means left behind either: for the drumsticks of the fierce rhythm kettle-keeper Blago hammer on his cauldrons as fast and nimbly as gigantic, ultra-heavy demolition hammers. 




In addition, the sinister Balkan flails fire razor-sharp words in the most authentic and truthful way on their new output with welcome provocations:
biting lyrics straight from the dirty and dusty street. Singer and guitar monster Niki doesn't give a damn about compromises in content and fights on "Madness" with incredibly effective and uncompromising throat attacks.

With "Madness" EUFOBIA show the worldwide rest of the scene that even nowadays it is still efficiently possible to hammer acutely into the epicenter of the Death Metal profession with a lot of self-confidence and burning fervor. (Markus Eck)


EUFOBIA has produced a new music video for the title song "Madness", which is the first single of their third album. The video was created by Val Volegna of 12 Drops Design. The lead role is played by the Bulgarian model Maria Georgieva. The story of the video is about a group of survivors in a world, which has been destroyed by a nuclear war, who try to save a girl trapped in a radioactively contaminated area:


[ Madness • Music Video ]



[ EUFOBIA 2022 • Pic: Mariyan Tomov ]




FLASHBACK:
The memorable band name of these Bulgarian THRASH DEATH METAL command is of ancient Greek origin and literally means 'fear of good'.

EUFOBIA was founded 2003 and no band member has ever been replaced since, which is pretty rare to find nowadays.

These musicians are in any case a very own formation. The emphasized independent, intense sound of EUFOBIA is just as individual as interesting structured and full of variety, even in the abysmal, manic emotional passages. Every song by the guys therefore can stand completely for itself.

During the summer 2018, EUFOBIA worked on the music video for the song "Cyber Pervert", which is presented the world since September 17th 2018. The title is so self-explanatory that nothing needs to be explained about the lyrical, socio-critical content.

Besides, the members also diligently write new songs for the fourth album, which is expected to appear between spring and summer of 2019.

So far EUFOBIA have performed live more than 180 (!) times and shared the stage with well known acts such as Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Rotting Christ, Kreator, Vader, Immolation, Onslaught, Malevolent Creation, Pyogenesis, Gorgoroth, Sinister, Broken Hope, Dragonforce, Eluveitie, Keep Of Kalessin, E-force, Negura Bunget, Suicidal Angels, as well as with many fellow underground ones.

In October 2017 the musically and lyrically hard biting genre-hopefuls from the city of Sofia published their music video for the song "Graveyard":

"Graveyard" is taken out of their third, self-titled album "Eufobia", which has been published in November 2016.

For this successful longplayer, the Bulgarian idealists were able to bring in a lot of sympathetically affirming to fully encouraging and enthusiastic press reviews.


EUFOBIA live at Wacken Open Air 2018:





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TRACKS:
01. Madness 03.54
02. Facing The Firing Squad 03.26
03. Wolf Among The Sheep 03.38
04. Messiah 03.49
05. Those Who Believe 03.12
06. Burning Streets 02.46
07. Use Your Head 03.12
08. Liberation 03.07
09. The Establishment 04.59
10. Animal Farm 04.01

total: 36.08 min.

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LINE-UP:
Niki • Guitar, Vocals
Ivan • Guitar
Steff • Bass, Vocals
Blago • Drums & Vocals

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DISCOGRAPHY:
2010 • Insemination • EP
2011 • Cup Of Mud • Full-length
2016 • Liquid Of Creation • Single
2016 • Eufobia • Full-length
2022 • Madness • Full-length

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EUFOBIA are available for interviews via phone, Skype, Zoom & email