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Earlier this year, Global Music Award-winning nomadic folk metal group Tengger Cavalry turned heads with the release of their sixth album, “Cian Bi”, via Napalm Records.

Chthonic, the Taiwanese metal band recognized with its unique signature of performance, is to release an all new album “The Battlefield of Asura” on October 12th, 2018, since its last official album “Butik” (2013).

After their split up right after the release of the latest album “Cian Bi” in February 2018, Tengger Cavalry have gathered their forces and return with a big bang.

The Nomadic Folk Metal pioneers led by mastermind Nature have renewed completely and strike back with their new single “Heart”, which is available as the regular 13-minute version and as a shortened radio and music video edit as bonus track.

Nature about the new single:

It’s a tribute to the diversity and creativity of the metal genre that a band can still come up with a totally new inspiration for their music. Such a band is Mongol!

Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Mongol’s folk metal is inspired by the ancient Mongolian Empire, which was the largest land empire in history, at various times it included China, Korea, Mongolia, Persia (now Iran), Turkestan, and Armenia. It also included parts of Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, and Russia. This Empire increased contacts between people; and enabled the introduction of such innovations as paper, the compass and gunpowder. It is no exaggeration to say the Mongolian Empire helped shape the modern world.

Nothing is impossible! Tengger Cavalry teach the greatness of every sound symbiosis: With a mighty mix out of Mongolian overtone singing and violin empowered folk metal these New York mind blasters create something special and unique.

And here it is: Tengger Cavalry's sixth record and Napalm Records' debut titled “Cian Bi”, set to be released on February 23rd, 2018!

Hailing from New York city, with their exotic mix of throat singing, the Mongolian fiddle and Central Asian instruments, Tengger Cavalry have signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records!

The Meier-Budjana Band is a group of superlative guitarists and accomplished musicians, corporately dedicated to creating music which exceeds stylistic and cultural bounds. True sonic explorers, in the most progressive jazz and beyond sense with distinctive ethnic bland of Middle-Eastern and South-East Asian flavors, theirs is a music which is both soulful and cerebral. Embracing a multitude of regional musical dialects from across the globe, MBB speaks in a profoundly unique, original voice – a voice bound by neither convention or preconception.
 
The band is co-chaired by Swiss-born and UK-based Nicolas Meier and Indonesian guitar icon of Balinese descent Dewa Budjana.

Last week, it was announced that June 2, 2017 will mark the release of Global Music Award-winning nomadic folk metal group Tengger Cavalry's upcoming full-length album, “Die on My Ride”.

The band is thrilled to announce that just a day after album drops, they will kick off a 25+ date North American headline tour featuring support from Venezuelan world music/progressive fusion guitarist Felix Martin and pagan folk metal group Helsott.
 
The tour will begin in Montreal, QC on June 3 and visit several other major Canadian and U.S. cities before coming to an end on July 8 in Manchester, NH (Helsott will appear June 18-June 27). See below for a full listing of dates.
 

Bands that take on a “theme” often end up pigeonholing themselves, releasing album after album with the same overarching concept and sound. When it came time to write and record their upcoming full-length album, “Die on My Ride”, Global Music Award-winning nomadic folk metal group Tengger Cavalry recognized the opportunity to expand on their celebrated exotic sound and lyrical explorations of tradition, history and warfare by delving into more personal, topical themes of racial discrimination, identity, equal rights and freedom.