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How Edenbridge Evolved Symphonic Metal After 30 Years with New Album "Set The Dark On Fire"

January 8, 2026·54 min·5 clips

Kevin previews Edenbridge's 12th album 'Set The Dark On Fire' and their symphonic metal evolution after 30 years.

Kevin comes in loud and familiar. After the sponsor and ranking chatter, he turns toward Austria and makes Edenbridge the metal focus for the day. The release hook is easy to follow. Set the Dark on Fire is presented as the band's 12th album, arriving January 16th, with Linval and Sabine in the conversation. Kevin sounds like a fan, in the useful way. He takes the press-release line about harmonic and structural diversity and turns it into a real question about how the band writes. The answer stays practical. The writing did not begin with one fixed target. Ideas came in, guitar and piano both had room, and riffs were collected, written down, moved around, and shaped into songs. The heavier feel came later. He traces it to the seven string guitar, especially riffs built around the low string and the weight that string brings with it. Kevin catches that shift right away and ties it back to an album that sounds heavier without sounding like a different band. The theory section stays friendly. Edenbridge's sound comes through in modalities, articulations, unusual chords, altered chords, and flat fives, but the chat never turns into homework. The point is simple enough: this band is not just parked in standard minor and major patterns. Kevin leans into that, turning the craft talk into a story about a band still finding new shapes after earlier albums.

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A loose metal interview that still gets into Edenbridge's heavier turn and harmonic writing.

The episode spends its time with Edenbridge's 12th album, Set the Dark on Fire, and with the band's move toward a heavier sound that still keeps its harmonic and structural range intact.

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A relaxed metal interview about Edenbridge's heavier turn, riff work, and harmonic detail.

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