Red Cain: Pay attention to the massive 7-string riffs!

Red Cain’s new single Sunshine (Blood Sun Empire) ushers in the follow-up album to 2019’s Kindred: Act I; entitled Kindred: Act II, which follows the warrior Zalcoatl and combines ancient myths and stories with a commentary on how these exist and apply in modern society. The single is complex and drives forward the tale with precision.

The band explains what listeners will encounter with this single: «We upgrade our trademark sprawling, epic, yet tightly wound style to a considerably heavier and more technical level, and add aggressive, direct vocals and a grimy Mastodon-esque occult atmosphere. This track has some of our favorite production and rhythm guitar performances (pay attention to the massive 7-string riffs!), and was a favorite to track vocals to, feeling the power at every step, complete with thunderous drum work».

Asking questions about cults, sacrifice, and the future of thehuman story as well as having an underlying story within itself, Sunshine (Blood Sun Empire) is, effectively the first and last track of the Kindred album cycle. Featuring some of Evgeniy Zayarny’s best lyrical work to date it borrows directly from Aztec and Mesopotamian ritual writings and mythology to construct an evocative and powerful narrative of a man locked in a battle of wills with a destiny that he yearns to bend to his control.

With their first full-length album Kindred: Act I, Red Cain dived into a conceptual journey through the primordial depth of the human psyche, surfacing to tell mythological tales of war, love, and transformation. Slavic, Celtic, and Egyptian myths all find a place within the tracks, in a venomous new form – battle hymns, sorrow songs, and eldritch chants. These are tracks that the band put their blood and spirit into, and while listener-friendly, they also contain a huge variety of layering and elements that require a number of listens to truly explore. The track Wings Of The Crow featuring Kobra Paige,

Each song tells a story, and the concept behind the album can be found within the words. Red Cain brings forward elements of the Slavic storytelling tradition here, with Veles, the god of war and earth, our patron deity, and storytelling patron. The reconciliation of the ancient and the modern, the clash between the two, and the vivid and powerful tales it produces with bonds strengthened in singing age-old songs together. The track Snake Bouquet,

Musically, Kindred: Act I is a further continuation of the group’s debut self-titled EP, and fans will see that while it is still clearly a Red Cain album, there has been a significant progression in both styles, songwriting, and production. They have kept their raw sound but in a more modern package and the tracks themselves are very different, yet connected to one another through a variety of musical, lyrical and storytelling threads. The track Zero,

For the band; Kindred: Act I is an ancient Sumerian incantation etched into the fiberglass wall of a derelict star-ship. Who can say what’s inside?

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