Long live love!

Action:	HARKON
Title:	Love And Vore
Base:	North Rhine-Westphalia • Germany
Style:	Progressive/Melodic Heavy Metal
Genre:	Melodic Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal
FFO:	Fates Warning, Queensrÿche, Nevermore
Type:	Album
Format:	CD + Vinyl + Digital
Label:	Doc Gator Records
Distro:	/
Release:	Oct. 31, 2025

Bulletpoints
🔘 The long-awaited debut album
🔘 A sophisticated symbiosis at its finest
🔘 Delights and grows with every listen


After their 2019 EP "Ruins Of Gold", 2025 finally marks the birth of HARKON's debut album "Love And Vore"!

As keen as the double-edged lyrics and the word play on the widespread phrase of 'love and war' ("Vore" is the short form of Vorarephilia, a paraphilia characterized by the desire to be consumed by, or to personally consume, another person or creature, which is perfectly visualized by the cover artwork), the songs on "Love And Vore" are as balanced as diverse.

From the hard hitting opener "Watch The World Go By" via micro-epics like "Blood Will Have Blood" to the wheather-beaten ballad "The Errorist", "Love And Vore" is a true cornucopia of heavymetalism - help the whole world hear it!
"Love And Vore" has been supported by the Wacken Foundation.

HARKON reveal:
"'Watch The World Go By' is about still seeing beauty in the rockiest road ahead - even if it sometimes means letting the outside world, with all its blunders, pass you by."





Once again HARKON teamed up with Cornelius Rambadt (Disbelief, Bonded, Sodom, The Very End, Darkness and many more) for recording and mix as well as Dennis Koehne (Lacuna Coil, Caliban, Orden Ogan, Grip Inc., Exumer and many more) for mastering to wrap "Love And Vore" in an organic and warm, yet contemporary and face-melting sound: PROGRESSIVE/MELODIC HEAVY METAL!




Also the album's visual aspects were meticulously taken care of:
While the band photos were shot by Sebastian Freitag (a photographic artist, balancing between fine art, live & portrait photography) the artwork for "Love And Vore" has been created by HARKON's own Björn Gooßes a.k.a. Killustrations, who has been creating vast eye-candy for bands, festivals, labels, authors and companies from more than 30 countries, crafted with a mixed media approach between compositing, photography and object installation.





FLASHBACK
So what's HARKON all about? Metal? Definitely! Hardrock? Yes! Prog? A bit. HARKON are sitting on the fence and make themselves at home right there. They offer playfulness without showing-off, they spin a colourful thread yet steer clear of patchwork, they balance between jackhammer and vanilla sex and still manage to give each track its own, yet still recognizable HARKON-flavour.

Neither one trick pony nor newbies, HARKON are grown Metal men and have played hundreds of stages all over the globe with their other/former bands (e.g. The Very End, Adrian Weiss Band, Night In Gales, Forces At Work). Still they dare to start afresh - because it feels right, because the songs kick ass, because this world needs a bit of HARKON!

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SINGLES
"Watch The World Go By":
➭ Streaming Pre-save
"The Errorist":
➭ Streaming Pre-save
➭ Linktree

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LINE-UP
○ Björn Gooßes • Vocals
○ Volker Rummel • Guitars
○ Marcel Willnat • Bass
○ Lars Zehner • Drums

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DISCOGRAPHY
2019 • Ruins Of Gold • EP
2025 • Love And Vore • Full-length

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VISUAL CREDITS
Band: Sebastian Freitag
Artwork & Logo: Björn Gooßes

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