All-female heavy metal band NEMOPHILA will release a new EP featuring covers of songs by groups who influenced their sound, including Slipknot and System of a Down, on November 8th.
All-female heavy metal band NEMOPHILA will release a new cover EP on November 8th.
Titled The Initial Impulse, the release aims to celebrate the rock bands that influenced them. The EP includes covers of songs by Metallica, Slipknot, System of a Down and Limp Bizkit.
The cover of Limp Bizkit’s Stuck will also feature a guest appearance from N∀OKI and NOBUYA, the frontmen of rock band ROTTENGRAFFTY.
The Metallica, Slipknot and System of a Down covers have already been released as preceding digital singles and are available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and other popular platforms now.
Links to download and stream the full EP will become available here on the release date.
The EP arrives at a time where NEMOPHILA are prepping for a nationwide tour of Japan, building up to their first ever concert at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, a venue where many bands they admire have performed in decades past. The Budokan concert
will be held on February 17th, 2024.
A music video for NEMOPHILA’s cover of System of a Down’s Sugar can be streamed below, followed by the audio for their covers of Slipknot’s (sic) and Metallica’s Master of Puppets.
