AURORA BOREALIS Signs With XTREEM MUSIC

Maryland-based death/black metallers AURORA BOREALIS have inked a deal with Xtreem Music. The band's new album, "Worldshapers", will be released on March 1, 2014.

If there is a legendary and pioneer band that started blending Death & Black 20 years ago, this one is AURORA BOREALIS from Maryland (USA). Now, with their 6th full length album already recorded, Xtreem Music is proud to announce the addition of the band to its roster, signing them for the release of "Worldshapers" in spring 2014.

Formed back in 1994 by mainman Ron Vento, the band has been developing their unique brand of brutal, fast and technical yet melodic Death Metal with adequate doses of Black Metal. One of the most outstanding points in the history of AURORA BOREALIS has been the usage of top drummers for the recordings of all their albums such as Tony Laureano, Derek Roddy, Tim Yeung and currently Mark Green, which gives a good idea of the band's pedigree, and everything excellently topped by the awesome songwriting of Ron Vento.

"Worldshapers" is the 6th full length album, their finest work to date, which contains 10 tracks of relentless Death/ Black with an astonishing production at Ron Vento's very osn Nightsky Studios, blending elements that might evoke bands like early HATE ETERNAL, ANGEL CORPSE, IMMORTAL, CARCASS, NILE, EMPEROR… but managed in a masterly way and with lyrics dealing about mythologic, cosmic and futuristic matters.

Release date for "Worldshapers" is set for March 1st, 2014 but you can already listen to an exclusive advance track at Xtreem Music's Youtube & Soundcloud channels here:

Aurora Borealis originated When Ron Vento parted ways with his former band Lestregus Nosferatus in 1995. Looking for new players He ventured to Florida where he met Tony Laureano (Nile, Dimmu Borgir , Angelcorpse). in 1996 The two then Recorded the first MCD "Mansions OF Eternity" The CD was Recorded Mixed and mastered at Morrisound studios By Scott Burns. Upon Completion Ron relocated To Maryland and began the second CD.

1998 Aurora Borealis began working on the first full length cd and Being that Tony was very busy with other projects Ron called Long time friend Derek Roddy, (Hate Eternal , Malevolent Creation, Nile) to fill the drum position. Derek Agreed to record the drums on the CD and "Praise The Archaic Lights Embrace" was recorded at The Sound lab with Bob Moore.

The Third cd "Northern Lights" was recorded in 2000 again with Derek behind the drum throne at Ron’s personal / commercial studio Nightsky Studios. For this album the band decided to sign with Diehard Music. Die Hard released the Euro version of the album while Ron continued to release the North American version on his own Nightsky Production label as he did with the previous two albums.

In 2002 Ron Started work on the 4th cd entitled "Time Unveiled". At that time Derek was in his new band (Hate Eternal) and his schedule would not permit him to play on the CD. Ron Once again Sought a new drummer and Tim Yeung (Vital Remains, Hate Eternal) was found. The CD was again recorded at Nightsky Studios and released on both Die hard music and Nightsky Productions.

"Relinquish" the band 5th cd was completed in 2006 and the the band had come Full circle at long last. Tony Laureano was once again in the drum position and the cd was recorded at Nightsky Studios like the last few albums. The cd was only released on Nightsky Prod.

Enter 2011 and a new drummer Mark Green was now in the drum position. The cd “Timeline: The Beginning & End of Everything” was a conceptual effort that starts from the beginning of all existence and continues through until the very end of universe and the eventual retraction and rebirth of it all. It was recorded at Nightsky Recording Studios and released on Nightsky prod.

Now its 2013 and Mark Green is once again in the drum position for the recording of Aurora Borealis’s 7th cd “World Shapers” The cd is a conceptual offshoot from the “Timeline” cd and explores areas where timeline left off. As usual it was recorded mixed and mastered by Ron Vento at Nightsky Studios. The cd is due out in early 2014.