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Resonating with a global audience and landing on the radar of heavy music's greater universe, Swedish firebrand Orbit Culture has been on a tear in support of their lauded 2023 LP, Descent. Capitalizing on the momentum of the album, the band followed fast with The Forgotten EP, cementing their acclaim as one of heavy music's most promising, emerging collectives. 

Consistently touring on the Descent cycle, the band recently completed a supporting trek with Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine earlier this year - broadening their reach and making even more converts along the way. 

Bookending the Descent era, Orbit Culture have unveiled an enormous new track in the epic, "The Tales of War". Towering in both sound and skill, the track showcases the band's brand of precision-based brutality with a entry that that honors the rich legacy of the Swedish sound. 

Orbit Culture issued the following of the track. "'The Tales of War' marks the beginning of a new chapter for Orbit Culture. While other songs evolved and shifted during the writing process, this one stayed exactly as it was from the very start. It captures everything that defines Orbit Culture — the cinematic elements, the build-up, the verses, and the chorus. From the beginning, we knew this had to be the first song to introduce this new era."

The band explained how the dynamics of their live show ultimately factored into their writing process. "On almost every show we've ever played, we've used these long, cinematic intros to set the mood — but this time, we figured: Why not bake that feeling straight into the song itself? Even as we move forward and leave parts of our past behind, we needed a bridge to the future — and this track became that bridge."

"The Tales of War" precedes the band's upcoming run of the European festival circuit starting next month. With confirmed plays at Download Festival in the UK, Graspop in Belgium and Tons of Rock in Oslo, Norway, Orbit Culture continue to assert their rank as the future of progressive, heavy music. 

"The Tales of War" from Orbit Culture is now available via Century Media Records. 

ORBIT CULTURE TOUR DATES
6/6 — Norje, SE — Sweden Rock Festival
6/15 — Donington, UK — Download Festival
6/17 — Toulouse, FR — w/ In Flames
6/18 — Lyon, FR — w/ In Flames
6/19 — Dessel, BE — Graspop Metal Meeting
6/20 — Leipzig, DE — w/ In Flames
6/26 — Oslo, NO — Tons Of Rock
6/28 — Helsinki, FIN — Tuska
10/13 — (J) — Loud Park Japan