Scardust share new single 'My Haven' • GRIMM Gent

Progressive symphonic metal band Scardust are excited to share their new single and accompanying official video “My Haven”, out now via Frontiers Music Srl.

Watch the official video for “My Haven” HERE

Listen to “My Haven” HERE

Discussing about the theme of the song, Scardust say:

“My Haven” is a tribute to the spaces we call home – perfect in all its imperfection. A safe haven can be a person, a place or a feeling and can mean different things to different people. It could be a grandmother’s warm kitchen, your family’s faces, a lover’s safe embrace, your community and your friends. It can be your house, your workplace, or your hometown, or anywhere where you feel like you can truly be yourself and feel accepted – it can be the quiet place within yourself where no one can reach you.

In this video, each band member plays the entire song in a setting that represents their idea of a haven. It’s a celebration of individuality and the universal need for a safe space, no matter who we are or where we come from.”

The first 5 years of the band’s existence saw the band’s first EP, “Shadow” (2015) position them as a promising newcomer, and the release of their first full length LP “Sands of Time” (2017) cement them as one of the leading progressive metal bands in Israel.

Scardust rapidly rose to the top of the local metal scene, selling out shows and opening for the likes of Symphony X, Therion and Epica. They soon started touring overseas playing festivals and headline shows in Germany, China and the UK as well as continuing to headline shows and festivals at home.

In winter 2019, the band entered the studio to record their follow up album, “Strangers” and, although the outbreak of COVID-19 played havoc with their recording plans, they managed to complete it and the album came out in fall 2020 through M-Theory Audio, and was followed by 7 self produced music videos released throughout 2020 and 2021. Described by Dead Rhetoric as “captivating from start to finish”, “Strangers” presented a unique concept album built of complementary song pairs working from the outside in resulting in something fresh which received strong critical and fan approval.

With Covid continuing to decimate the live touring scene, 2021 saw them play just a handful of shows but 2022 started big with the visit of folk star Patty Gurdy, who came to Israel to perform a show with Scardust at the Gagarin club in Tel Aviv. The show took place in front of a live audience at the venue and over 2000 fans online. The visit was also the opportunity to shoot the band’s most viewed video to date, “Concrete Cages” in which Noa duets with Patty in a tale of mankind’s loss of connection with nature – with a shock ending!

Summer 2022 saw the band headlining multiple shows around Europe, playing to packed arenas at Wacken Open Air & Dong Open Air, where they earned the praise of Testament’s Steve Di Giorgio who, on hearing the band from backstage, ran out front and watched the entire set “mesmerised”. 2022 concluded with the release of the dramatic one-shot video “Evolution Of The Disney Princess – But She’s METAL” in which Noa weaves her way through a magical arrangement of all the best known Disney Princess songs in just 3 and a half minutes.

2023 was the biggest year for Scardust so far, with festivals in Germany and Belgium, the release of Game of Now, a cinematic piece that takes viewers into a futuristic, dystopian live show, and culminated with 2 weeks on tour with power metal originals Blind Guardian and signing with Frontiers Records!

Hellscore, the metal choir founded by Noa Gruman has been gaining significant recognition in the metal music scene. Known for their unique a cappella renditions of metal classics, Hellscore have collaborated with many well-known artists and bands such as Therion, Amorphis and Alestorm.

Noa Gruman is also much in demand as a vocalist and the already-impressive list of her recent guest vocal appearances includes albums by Amorphis, Ayreon, Therion, Gloryhammer, Nino Helfrich and Orphaned Land.