Alwaid is a female-fronted melodic metal band from Lille, France. With inspirations found in bands such as Therion, Theatre of Tragedy, Epica or Candlemass, the band strives to create a diversity of atmospheres, relying on symphonic structures and on more aggressive heavy metal guitars, not forgetting a number of darker pieces when male growls combine with the melodic female vocals.
A first album entitled "Lacus Somniorum" was released in March 2014. Each track of this album tells its own story, following the different stages of sleep, from waking to unconsciousness, from insomnia to nightmares. A second album, "The Machine and the Beast", was released in 2017. The songs relate how mankind struggles to free itself from its primal animality and to gain control over the machine, which will lead to its ultimate fall.
With Covid-19 making it quite impossible to keep touring extensively, Alwaid has been working hard on an ambitious 3rd album, "Twelve Daemons", announced for the autumn of 2022. Alwaid’s new album revolves around one concept : exploring the theme of mankind's quest for knowledge, through a kabbalah of demons – in the Greek sense of daimon, which is the manifestation and incarnation of abstract ideas, concepts and theories as powerful and formidable entities. The story of the album will be completed by an additional EP called « The Lost Trinity ».
