Amahiru

Amahiru is the new musical powerhouse of Frédéric Leclercq (Kreator, Sinsaenum, Ex-Dragonforce) and SAKI (Mary's Blood, an all-female metal band from Japan). Their friendship began in 2015 when Mary's Blood played as the support band for Dragonforce in Hong Kong. Frédéric and SAKI got along very quickly and it didn't take long before they started working on a musical project together. In the following years they exchanged many ideas and Frédéric finally came to Japan in March 2019 to finish the songs.

Some prominent musicians from the metal scene have taken over the other roles in the band. Coen Janssen from Epica, who has also played keyboards in several Dragonforce productions, joined them first. Then came Mike Heller, known as the super drummer of Fear Factory and Raven. The biggest challenge was to find a suitable singer for the band. "Originally we wanted to have more traditional metal vocals", Frédéric Leclercq describes. "But when I came to Japan to finish the songs, SAKI and I realized that we needed something more… ballsy."

Then he met Archie Wilson. The vocalist from the UK may be less well known than other musicians in this band, but he is obviously the key to Amahiru's music, as Frédéric confirms. "He has a strong voice, a great sense of rhythm and he is totally versatile. High notes are no problem for him and he can be melodic and aggressive at the same time - the perfect match for Amahiru and the last missing piece of the puzzle".