Hails to "The Alder Queen" as she takes her throne in the latest epic video from Canadian power metal warriors Ravenous. The track features guest vocals from Nina Osegueda of A Sound Of Thunder and is off the band's recently unleashed album Hubris (Feast Beast/ Spiritual Beast).

"This song is an alternate take on Der Erlkonig - a poem written by Goethe and later adapted into Opera by Franz Schubert - in which a father rides to get his son medical attention, while the child cries out about supernatural forces trying to claim his life (Der Erklonig - loosely translated to the Elf King or The Alder King). The father continues to console the child, telling them it is simply the child’s imagination seeing these things, but as the child finally cries that he has been captured, the father looks down to find his son has died. The Ravenous rendition features Die Erlkonigin - the Elf/Alder Queen, played by Nina Osegueda of A Sound of Thunder - and follows the trajectory of the original tale with lyrics extracted directly from the original poem from 1782."

Taking their performance, writing, and musicianship seriously, but allowing tongue-in-cheek humour and pop culture references to resonate through the songs, Ravenous is bringing fans anthemic tunes from a time when metal was hungry.

Ravenous released Hubris on October 22 via Feast Beast Records for North America plus Europe and for Asia via Spiritual Beast with exclusive bonus tracks “Cakaw Te Partiro” and “一瞬千撃” for the Japanese version.

Hubris orders are available at Indiegogo.

Tracklisting:

"Carnage In Carthage"
"Astral Elixir"
"Son Of Storms"
"Die 1000 Deaths"
"Bridgeburner"
"The Alder Queen"

"March Of Hunger"
"Claw Is The Law"
"Onwards & Upwards"
"…Of Beasts And Faust"

Japanese Version Exclusives

"Cakaw Te Partiro"
"一瞬千撃"

(Photo - Monika Deviat)