Candlelight Records has announced the signing of VOICES. The band were formed in London in 2011 as a new experiment from AKERCOCKE members Peter Benjamin, David Gray and Samuel Loynes, also joined by London producer Dan Abela of Legacy Studios.

According to a press release, "the mission is to create a deep brand of cold and confronting music, part hypnotic yet often disturbing, focusing from an avant-garde take upon black metal, while always striving to explore a wide musical spectrum."

As the band state: "We have some immense plans for future creativity, ruling out no potential musical style or influence. We hope to never be bound by convention and thus remaining truly extreme through this unique and open minded disposition." And so Voices refuse to be branded as just another one-dimensional black metal band.

Having just finished recording the debut album, Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary Rain, at Legacy Studios located in the heart of the historic Old Street in central London, Voices have generated a buzzing interest throughout the London metal scene of which is growing day by day.

The band had this to say: “We are excited to be working with the legendary Candlelight Records. It’s a greatly profound occasion for us to be sharing a label alongside some of our own and long-serving musical influences. Each member of the band has been listening to Candlelight artists for years and has great appreciation and respect of the label’s direction and continuing legacy. From here we hope to spread our message throughout the world via the mighty platform provided by Candlelight Records. And therefore we now have some colossal ventures and goals on the horizon... Expect Voices to always bring deeply innovative and unusual extreme metal infiltrated by the strain of London life, pushing this sound into the forefront of the global metal world”

You can check out a video from the band below:

More information about Voices can be found on Facebook.