Swedish metallers Aktaion released a new lyric video for "The Parade Of Nature" featuring on guitar Christopher Amott (Armageddon, ex-Arch Enemy). The song is taken from their forthcoming album The Parade Of Nature feat. also Joey Concepcion (Dead By Wednesday, Armageddon) out on July 29th via Bandcamp. The video was made by Andy Pilkington at Very Metal Art.

Francis Larsson says: "Working with Christopher Amott on some of the songs was quite surreal. Being a longtime Arch Enemy fan and Arch Enemy being the band that dragged me into the metal world it was quite the experience to have Chris in my living room. He had heard the song before and tried out some ideas for a couple of turns. After he got some basic stuff down for the start of the solo he more or less performed the whole solo that you hear on the finished song, and blew us away. I knew we had it right away and the song got lifted into a whole other level because of his contribution!"

The Parade Of Nature is in a lot of ways a concept album with regards to different lyrical themes, lyrics, melodies and progressions intertwining between the songs and throughout the album.

Francis stated: "I wanted the songs to have broader connection beyond being just great songs gathered on the same CD. I broke some of my own barriers which said 'I can´t do this or that' such as in repeating different lyrics and melodies. But writing like that became easier, especially as I wrote most of the songs parallel to each other and my mindset as in meaning and emotion behind the lyrics remained the same. There are continues references between the songs on the new album and I feel this creates both an listening experiences that differs from how you might perceive an album otherwise, and also something that pays off in listening to the album as a whole while studying the lyrics. To add to the concept of Aktaion and bind our two albums together, I reused melodies from our first album. This idea became the opening track on the album, which I then continued building upon and brought with me into the other songs."

Tracklisting:

“As The Hope Collapses”
“Candid Flow Of The Shrapnel Dust”
“Seven”
“Walrus March”
“The Parade Of Nature” (feat. Christopher Amott)
“Stones Into Sand” (feat. Joey Concepcion)
“Death Coloured Gold” (feat. Christopher Amott)
“Gold Coloured Dreams”
“For All The Things”
“The Silent Song” (feat. Christopher Amott & John Anderberg)
“Silence”

"The Parade Of Nature" lyric video featuring Christopher Amott:

"Candid Flow Of The Shrapnel Dust" lyric video:

Teaser:

Aktaion are:

Francis Larsson - Guitars
Jonas Snäckmark - Vocals
Axel Croné - Bass
Jonatan Ney - Guitar and vocals