Portland-based Metal Duo QARINAH Announces New Single 8/23/24 and Upcoming EP, Due out 9/13/24

The metal duo QARINAH is releasing their single “Not For Sale” on August 23rd. The accompanying lyric video will go live the same day. This is their third single after their debut, “Hell or High Water” and “Impermanence” single. QARINAH’s “Not For Sale” is just a statement of what is to come. It will be part the Transcendent EP out September 13 which will also include “Hell or High Water,” “Impermanence,” and “Alchemy.” There is a written full-length album being finalized this year and the band is putting together a live lineup with dates TBA. Made up of Portland-based singer-songwriter and drummer Miss Randall (Rusty Eye) and Germany-based guitarist and composer Waldemar Sorychta, formerly of Grip Inc., Voodoocult, and Enemy of the Sun, the pair envision the collaboration as an intersection between groove metal, classic metal styles, and unheard fresh possibilities.

QARINAH’s Miss Randall mentions: “This song can be interpreted in many ways, the most obvious being what I lived through as a young musician lady in Hollywood, a place where one is surrounded by music industry men who want to mold you to their will. But in general, this song goes out to those who are like me, who don’t quite fit the mold but still, do what they do best without selling out. It brings back my younger Discordian self who wanted to tear everything down, be off the grid, and break up with what society and culture imposed on me.”

QARINAH’S Waldemar Sorychta says: “The song is based on an old riff idea with new heavy parts that were creatively put together just as we prepared this EP and the written full-length. Of course, the song title is out of irony (we sure aim to sell it!).

Waldemar and Miss Randall met at Graspop in the late 2000s, and their friendship flourished into a collaboration on Rusty Eye’s Possessor album, and finally, leading to the series of visits to Germany and Finland since late 2022 to produce and record songs as a duo. Miss Randall is an established singing drummer and song-writer in the Los Angeles/CDMX band Rusty Eye and Sergio Arau y Los Heavy Mex. Now going solo in Portland, Oregon, Miss Randall released debut singles last year, including her original NWOBHM anthem “Pagan Burial,” a Corrosion of Conformity cover of “Albatross,” an EP entitled “Desertations, Vol.1” and more. Waldemar has 3 gold records and more than 184 credits under his belt as a result of being the producer of the most successful Century Media label bands including Tiamat, Lacuna Coil, Moonspell, Samael, The Gathering, and more. He was also the lead guitarist/composer in Grip Inc. next to Dave Lombardo and Gus Chambers (who tragically passed away in 2008). He’s been busy also touring as supporting guitarist with Overkill, Therion, and Exhorder and is still producing German punk and metal bands such as The Idiots, Crossplane, and The Other.

The track was produced by Waldemar Sorychta and Miss Randall collaboration with mixing/mastering engineer Dennis Koehne (Sodom, Lacuna Coil, Tristania, et al), audio engineer Jan Rechberger at Helsinki Moon Unit studio (drummer in Amorphis, The Eternal), and LA-based engineer Yury Anysonyan at Box Studio (Spineshank, The Love Project). QARINAH’s name story pays tribute to Waldemar’s productions with Samael, Therion, or The Gathering, and while it’s mystical in nature, it’s not for the faint of heart, as it comes from the feared story of an orgone energy female succubus/demon of Middle Eastern tradition.

“…at once brutal, elegant, and edgy, highlighted by the haunting, evocative voice of Miss Randall.” – Tattoo.com