ABOUT
ASHRAIN is a band new Power Metal band formed by a guitarist / producer, Nozomu Wakai (Destinia / Shortino/ Sigh).
Nozomu released an album entitled “Metal Souls” as DESTINIA in 2018, which featured Tommy Aldridge, Marco Mendoza and Ronnie Romero. He has been working on a band named SHORTINO with none other than Paul Shortino. He was also featured on the latest Alcatrazz album. Furthermore, lately he has been working as the guitarist of SIGH a well-known band in the black metal scene and has performed at festivals such as Brutal Assault 2022, and Candelabrum Mexico 2022.
In 2020, Nozomu started recording the new material with his long-time friend, Peter Baltes (Ba, ex-Accept). Later Iuri Sanson (Vo, ex-Hibria) and Andy C (Dr, ex- Lords of Black) joined them and ASHRAIN was born. And finally the strong debut album “Requiem Reloaded” was completed now. The album was mixed by Simone Mularoni (DGM) at Domination Studio. It also features Elyes Bouchoucha (Myrath) as a guest keyboardist. Beautiful impressive melodies, guitars that bite, and real heavy bass by Peter. “Requiem Reloaded” has everything which Power Metal requires.