New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Atlanta-based rock/metal/industrial band Inviolate has released their brand new music video for "Broken Cycle", the second single from their August 2017 full-length CD The Insomniac's Dream. Originally premiered on Tattoo.com, "Broken Cycle" was shot by Chance White of White
Flame Studios at both the complex of the Safety Wolf facility and Atlanta's Big Peach Studios.
Musically we wanted the song to build from soft and haunted at the beginning to a feeling of resolution and agency by the end. You're taking a stand and saying 'I refuse to play the victim to my circumstances' but there's acknowledgment that you can't always go at it alone. You have people in your corner who have your back when you might falter. The imagery of the swordswomen embodies that aspect of the lyrics. - Inviolate
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"Broken Cycle" features seven members of Inviolate's "2.0" lineup (click HERE to read about Inviolate's unique band member configuration), as well as the Sisters of Anarchy, a troupe of modern fusion bellydancers wielding scimitars in a choreography that vocalist Kadria created specifically for the video.
"This video showcases for the first time how Inviolate 2.0 works with rotating members on any given 4-person lineup. The final chorus shows every member who played on the video (and album) in single shots of all 7 of us rocking out," says Kadria. "We're one huge extended family, and we wanted to visually represent that through the entire video."
Originally founded with Bryon Brown on guitar, Chris Farmer on bass and vocalist/sample engineer Kadria, Atlanta's Inviolate continues to create and perform with Kadria at the creative helm, along with an array of the southeast's finest rock and metal talent for live shows (musicians who play live with the band are part of "Inviolate 2.0") and in the studio. Inviolate's sound is multi-faceted, defying the labels of mere "metal", "rock", "electronica", even "industrial" but a sonic blend of all. To visually augment the sonic onslaught, Kadria adds the moves of a bellydancer which, by turns, emphasize delicacy and aggression according to the music's mood. This combination produces a visual in their live show unlike any other in the rock and metal world.
Inviolate signed to Strange One Records in April 2012 and released a 7-song album titled "Feast of Ashes", co-produced with Mike Froedge (doubleDrive/Black Label Society) in June 2012, as well as a video for its first single "Condemned, " directed by Gustavo Montana of At Dusk Media. The album and video garnered Inviolate a trifecta of nominations at the 2013 Georgia
Music Awards for Best Metal Band, Best Rock Female, and Video of the Year, and again in 2014 for Best Metal Band and Best Rock Female. "Feast of Ashes" also won Tampa's Rock Solid Pressure Show's "2014 EP Of The Year."
Inviolate has shared the stage with a wide range of hard rock, metal, industrial and even acoustic heavyweights including Static-X, Whitechapel, Butcher Babies, Mushroomhead, Powerman5000, Amaranthe, Epica, SOiL, One-Eyed Doll, Celldweller, Symphony X, and Angie Aparo.
In early 2017, Inviolate returned to the studio to record their full-length CD The Insomniac's
Dream with co-producer Jordon Popp (Sky Machine/Seven Day Sonnet) at Glass Wall Studio in Chicago, IL. Their first single, "Sisyphus", dropped with a lyric video in July 2017 and features guest vocals by the Swedish vocal titan Bjorn Strid (Soilwork/Night Flight Orchestra). The Insomniac's
Dream was released worldwide on August 1, 2017 and the band continues to tour the east coast, pushing steadily westward and gaining fans (fondly called Inviolators) at every turn. "I'm super excited about this album," says vocalist Kadria. "We pushed the envelope on so many levels. And then we got to work with someone like Björn - it's such an honor to have his voice on one of our songs! And we were thrilled to have Jordon put on his producer's hat on for our songs. The response we're getting at every show has been amazing."
The band continues to tour, with an album of remixes already underway and planned for release early spring 2018. "More shows, more twists, more visual and auditory Inviolations coming your way. We can hardly wait!"
