Elcano: Nautical Metal
Elcano: Nautical Metal
Elcano's debut album, ‘The First Circumnavigation Of The World’, traces the vagaries, the successes and defeats of that very enterprise initiated by Fernando Magellan and completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano in the early 1600s.
How ironic that Elcano should hail from fully land-locked Switzerland where the seven-piece set out on their musical journey 500 years after the sea-faring explorers did, playing clubs as well as the renowned Elements of Rock festival in 2022, never without their sail, treasure chest and helmsman’s wheel iconically on stage. In 2023, they released their first EP, ‘Hewn In Water’, as well as the digital-only single “Ghost Of Christmas” which surveys the three years 1519-1522 of Magellan’s and Elcano’s diminishing crew’s and fleet’s voyage.
The album ‘The First Circumnavigation Of The World’ will be released on CD and double vinyl on 21 February 2025 and baptised with brine on 29 March 2025 in the company of Dreams in Fragments, Victorius and Freedom Call.
Elcano's crew consists of singers Marc Meli and Josy Fine, the guitarists Florian Staubli and Reto Wild, Jan Thomas (bass & growls), Christoph Zehnder (synthesizer) und Marc Bircher (drums).
‘The First Circumnavigation Of The World’ was preceded by the release of “Tempest! (The Torment Of Santiago)” as the first video single off the album.
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