The Devil’s Trade Release Mind-Altering Festival Footage

A decade ago, Dávid György Makó started The Devil’s Trade as a solitary journey between him and his banjo. But once he started working on his latest album, his stark and doomy meditations on folk music spawned into something even more cavernous, something that sounded like the inner workings of a fully electrified band.

Since the release of Vidékek Vannak Idebenn, Makó and his band mates have toured across Europe with kindred spirits like Alcest. Watch them deliver a thunderous performance of the album’s epic title track at Budapest’s famously free-spirited Kolorádó Festival.

“Vidékek Vannak Idebenn” (Live at Kolorádó)

https://youtu.be/XZYzJvUuU_Y?si=o-JGleDSB7Tn1-KY

The Devil’s Trade also stopped by this year’s Hellfest to perform the album’s spine-tingling, bone-crushing lead single “Flashing Through the Lack of Light”. Later this week, the band will shake the stage at Hungary’s Campus Festival alongside their fellow countrymen Thy Catafalque.

“Flashing Through the Lack of Light” (Live at Hellfest)

https://youtu.be/XPg2W96dyAc?si=RJ4L2cvmwJ2mDUzf

“A powerful set of dark, atmospheric, melancholic metal, driven by mainman Dávid Makó’s impressive, sonorous vocals” – Bristol 24/7

“A sonic triumph…the trio cast their own spell over the audience” – Ever Metal

“An almost quasi-religious experience that I never wanted to end. I think I have found my new favourite band” – Rockflesh

liminal
/ˈlɪmɪnl/
adjective
TECHNICAL

1. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

“I was in the liminal space between past and present”

It is of no surprise liminal space is a key element in the next phase of The Devil’s Trade’s fourth album, ’Vidékek vannak idebenn’ (a title that loosely translates to ’There Are Landscapes Within’) as Dávid Makó, the man behind the moniker has indeed arrived to a threshold in his career, where the phase starting with his self-released debut ’Those Miles We Walked Alone’ ended after his latest album ’The Call of the Iron Peak’. The concept of liminal space itself is a not necessarily pleasant state of mind where you left behind your old life, but new doors haven’t exactly opened just yet.

As Makó states ’The process my first three records pieced together ended, that was no path for me to take anymore, but to take a step forward I had to make decisions I wasn’t inspired enough to make.’ – and from this frustrated, sort of paralyzed state of floating, a new incarnation of The Devil’s Trade was born and so was ‘Vidékek vannak idebenn’ along with it.

While still true to his solo artist roots, delivering gut-wrenching melodies of darkness and beauty on his own, Makó needed an expansion to his universe. With the addition of long-time friend and former bandmate Gáspár Binder on drums and a live keyboard player, he finally took the much needed step forward and ‘Vidékek vannak idebenn’ portrays the next sonic phase of The Devil’s Trade.

A soundtrack to the next phase of his life. A soundtrack to souls stuck in liminal space, hungry to adapt to new realities and to grow further, outside the boundaries which so often shackle them.

Style: Dark Doom Folk

Recording studio: Templom, Budapest Hungary

Producer: Makó Dávid

Mix/Master: Szabolcs Szűcs

Recording line-up:
Dávid Makó: vocals, guitars, keyboards, banjo
Gáspár Binder: drums

Line-up:
Dávid Makó: vocals, guitars, banjo
Gáspár Binder: drums
Márton Szabó : keyboard

Cover artwork:
Bálint Benkő (Volume Of Voids)

Photography
Chantik Photography

Links:
www.facebook.com/TheDevilsTrade
www.thedevilstrade.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/user/mdgytdt
www.instagram.com/thedevilstrade
https://linktr.ee/thedevilstrade

Order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/TDTVVI

Stream: https://linktr.ee/thedevilstrade

Formats:
Digital Download
CD Digipak
12″ Vinyl Gatefold (Black)
12″ Colored Vinyl Gatefold (White)
12″ Colored Vinyl Gatefold (Crystal Clear with Silver, White and Black Spallter)