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TENGGER CAVALRY & FELIX MARTIN Announce North American Tour

With Helsott on select dates!

"After so many months off the road, hours and hours of recording in the studio and many intense rehearsals, we are so excited to finally hit the road and raid with Felix Martin and Helsott! Helsott is amazing – they play European-influenced pagan folk metal, and Felix Martin is an absolutely skillful progressive-influenced metal/rock act. We're stoked to play many songs from our brand new album and also to have these awesome fellow world/folk music artists out with us!"

6/03 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz 6/04 – Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks 6/05 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck 6/06 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo 6/08 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme 6/09 – Indianapolis, IN @ Taps Live 6/10 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen 6/11 – Fargo, ND @ Aquarium 6/13 – Winnipeg, MB @ Windsor Hotel 6/14 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos 6/15 – Edmonton, AB @ Brixx 6/16 – Calgary, AB @ Distortion 6/18 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater 6/19 – Seattle, WA @ Highline 6/21 – Portland, OR @ Dantes 6/23 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill 6/24 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar 6/25 – Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red 6/27 – Denver, CO @ Hi Dive 6/28 – Kansas, City MO @ Riot Room 6/29 – St Louis, MO @ Fubar 6/30 – Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone 7/01 – Nashville, TN @ East Room 7/03 – Atlanta, GA @ 529 7/04 – Asheville, NC @ Mothlight 7/05 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter 7/06 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fire 7/07 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus 7/08 – Manchester, NH @ Jewel

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Tengger Cavalry is a folk metal band based in New York City. They combine elements of the traditional music of Mongolia with heavy metal into a kind of folk metal that Billboard and CNN refer to as nomadic folk metal.

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Tengger Cavalry's setlist while performing in Paris , 11 at “Le Klub” included the following songs:

• Cavalry in Thousands
• Die On My Ride
• Hymn of the Earth
• Independence Day
• A Blade of Time
• Tengger Cavalry
• Me Against Me
• Mountain Side

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Northern Memory (Vol. 1)

Northern Memory (Vol. 2)

Cavalry In Thousands

Blood Sacrifice Shaman

Ancient Call

Sunesu Cavalry

Die on My Ride

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Sound of the Raging Steppe Tengger Cavalry, Nine Treasures, Suld, Nan, Sintas, Liberation

Grassland Rock (remix)

Nature G: Dark Poetry

Soundtrack of the Cavalry (remix)

Ritual and Redemption (single)

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Meet Tengger Cavalry, the world's first Mongolian folk metal band

Frontman Nature Ganganbaigal reveals the origins of his quartet's unique sound

There’s an idea in the arts – and especially music – that it’s all been done before. As rock ’n’ roll, punk and metal have evolved, morphing into all the many permutations that exist today, even amongst the most avant-garde noise makers, there’s nothing left to be invented. It’s all been done before.

Unless, of course, you’re Nature Ganganbaigal. Born and raised in Beijing, China and of Mongolian descent, he now lives in New York and, since 2009, has been channelling his heritage – and his early love of heavy metal – into some of the most unique music you’re likely to hear through his band, Tengger Cavalry. Named after the ancient Mongolian and Turkic deity Tengri, the band incorporate traditional Mongolian throat singing into a folk-metal hybrid that is unique. Initially started as a solo bedroom project, it took time for Ganganbaigal to take his music to the stage, but now, with new album Blood Sacrifice Shaman – a recorded and expanded version of a demo he made in 2010 – it seems he’s now ready to truly unleash Mongolian folk-metal on the rest of the world.

Why did you decide to expand and re-record Blood Sacrifice Shaman? “It’s interesting. That was our first demo in China and it was really underground, and to be honest, I hate it. I still don’t want to listen to it, because it was recorded so shittily. I want to be a good producer so I don’t want to listen to it, but people keep telling me they really love the songwriting on it. I haven’t written anything new this year, so I have nothing new to give to my fans. We never released the Blood Sacrifice Shaman demo album in the Western world – we only pressed like 500 copies in China – so I thought ‘Let’s make this international!’ but on the condition that we re-orchestrate it and remake everything to make it sound professional, not like some underground black metal band! And I like it now. It’s incorporated some of my recent knowledge of composition, but also has the same song structure and basic harmony progression of the original record.”

When you listen to it now, do you recognise who you were when you wrote it, and do you still relate to that person? “I feel like my life has changed a lot. I’m very into Mongolian culture, and I found out that, four generations ago, I am descended from Mongolian people. And so the way I see myself has changed a lot. I moved to America, too, and here people are more accepting of who you think you are than in China, where we have this Communism shit, you know? Like, ‘You’re Chinese – you can’t claim you’re Mongolian.’ So things have changed a lot, and when I re-recorded this album, I put more of my heart into it, compared to back at the time, when I initially made it in 2010, and it was more of an experiment in sound. This record means more to me, to have found who I am and what I am, and I think it goes deeper and deeper and people can tell from the music that it’s based on my life experience.”

**Obviously your identity is very important to you and your music, but how did you first get the idea to bring these two cultures – the Mongolian music and the metal – together? Because it’s not something that you think would necessarily work. **“Firstly, as a Chinese kid, I grew up with heavy metal, because I hate all the Communist bullshit. I still hate it and I still don’t want to go back to China – not because I hate the country, but the culture. So I grew up listening to heavy metal, and then you grow up, you transform, and I went from angry kid to a kid that wanted to find something more peaceful. And then I encountered Mongolian music and it’s something that just touched my heart, like you don’t know the reason, you just love it. So I wanted to study Mongolian [horse] fiddle because it was something very different from heavy metal and not very aggressive. But this one day I heard an album by a Mongolian fiddle player, and he had some electric guitar and drum beats with the Mongolian fiddle and it set off this little spark in my brain. Like, why not put these two things I love together, because it might sound really bad-ass. And when it came out and people came back to me I just knew that it was working.”

And the Mongolian throat singing is kind of a variation on the death metal growl anyway, just with a lot history behind it. How did you learn it? “The first time I heard it on an album I was blown away, and I told myself I was going to learn it. And then I started to find teachers. I actually learned the technique from a few Mongolian teachers who are masters of the technique. This kind of Mongolian throat singing is very skillful. You have to be very careful. I don’t recommend anybody to learn by themselves, because they might learn the wrong way. It’s very hard and it might damage your throat.”

Tengger Cavalry started out as a solo project, then you became a band, but the rest of the band are in China still. So is it back to being a solo thing? “Well, to make it very clear, I fired all the Chinese members! [laughs] So for all the future gigs, it’s going to be my American members. I don’t have any association with the Chinese members now. Even when I was in China, I felt like they were not with me, and I needed people more interested in this band in a professional way. But now that I’m here it makes even more sense. And actually, I didn’t tell them that I fired them. I just said, ‘Hey guys, I’m going to have a bunch of new American guys’, but they’re all busy with their own lives so they should have understood what’s going on.”

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You’re probably the only Mongolian folk-metal band in the world. What do think draws people to your music? “Let me think…. I think firstly, the sound itself. I think most people just care about music first. People have told me that it just makes sense to them, and some of them didn’t even know it was Mongolian. They’d never heard about this culture and they don’t know about its horse fiddle but when they hear our music they can picture a warrior running around – so they can capture the culture in one second without needing to read any books. So I think that’s why a lot of people like it, because the music can help visualise the culture. But also, the metal structures ae super old school, because I grew up with all the old school bands. I don’t know how to write a riff like all these new deathcore bands or whatever!”

And what are your hopes for the band? Where do you see this going? “I want to see this going two ways. First, I want to play as many of the big metal festivals as possible, but we also want to do these local small bar shows unplugged. And I think going both ways will show off the best of the band as much as possible.”

Blood Shaman Sacrifice is out now through Metal Hell. Tengger Cavalry will play an unplugged show at Weill Recital Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall on December 24. For more information, visit their website .

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Tengger Cavalry: Sunesu Cavalry

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• Leader Wolf
• Blade Of Blood
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Tengger Cavalry: Cavalry in Thousands

• Are You a Cavalryman
• Cavalry In Thousands
• The Expedition
• Black Steed
• In The Storm
• The Horse Dance
• Hymn Of The Wolf
• Khaan (Instrumental)

Tengger Cavalry: Blood Sacrifice Shaman

• The Wolf Ritual
• Blood Sacrifice Shaman

Tengger Cavalry: Die on My Ride

• Die on My Ride
• Independence Day
• The Frontline
• The Choice of My Mind
• Me Against Me
• We Will Survive

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• Just Forgive

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Tengger Cavalry announce North American tour

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Tengger Cavalry have announced a North American tour that will showcase two sets each night. One set will feature the group performing traditional Mongolian folk music, inspired by their successful Carnegie Hall shows and the second set will consist of the band’s heavy nomadic metal tunes. The trek kicks off on November 20th in Philadelphia, PA and will run through December 23rd in Brooklyn, NY.

To celebrate the group’s upcoming tour, the band has unveiled the below Lyric video for the song “Our Ancestors.”

Tour Dates:

11/20 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

11/22 Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks

11/23 Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck

11/24 Quebec City, QC @ La Source de La Martiniere

11/25 Boston, MA @ Sonia

11/26 Syracuse, NY @ Spark Art Space

11/27 Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit

11/28 Canton, OH @ Buzzbin

11/29 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlies

12/01 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

12/02 Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village

12/03 St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club

12/04 Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar

12/05 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge

12/06 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

12/09 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

12/10 Portland, OR @ Tonic

12/11 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom

12/14 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red

12/16 Dallas, TX @ Three Links

12/17 Austin, TX @ Come and Take it Live

12/19 Atlanta, GA @ Basement

12/20 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506

12/22 Baltimore, MD @ Yulefest – Sparta Inn

12/23 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar

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Nature Ganganbaigal is a man of many talents. The 30-year old Beijing-raised musician plays guitar, morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), Dombra (Kazakh lute), and performs impressive Mongolian throat singing in his folk metal band Tengger Cavalry. He even produces and masters the band’s recordings. But the skill from which he derives the most inspiration isn’t musical at all.

“When I lived in Brooklyn, I’d go to a horse stable and ride,” he says. “I also ride a lot when I go back to the Mongolian grasslands—I was actually just there shooting a video with Mongolian horses in negative one degree Fahrenheit. It’s kind of my routine to stay in touch with the nomadic lifestyle. It’s how I fuel my music in some ways.”

Tengger Cavalry’s latest, Northern Memory (Silk Road Metal) , is a tribute to that untethered lifestyle, and then some: a heavy-metal concept album, doubling as a tour through pre-Mongolian history. “The Mongolians are very well known in the west, but there were actually many nomadic tribes before them that immigrated to Northern China, like the Xiongnu and Cian Bi,” he explains. “Nobody really talks about their stories, so this album is dedicated to all the nomads that came before the Mongols.”

It’s a subject Ganganbaigal—or “Nature G,” as he’s known colloquially—holds close to his heart, as an individual as well as an artist. Tengger Cavalry’s discography revolves around Mongolian history and culture; their 2018 album, Cian Bi , was dedicated to the nomadic tribe of the same name. “We wrote a lot about Mongolian culture already, so with this album we wanted to explore the history from farther back,” he says of Northern Memory . “It’s more primitive and more fun.”

While Nature G’s lyrics recall a simpler, if harsher, time, there’s nothing primitive about Tengger Cavalry’s music. A dizzying amalgamation of death metal and Euro-style folk metal festooned with traditional Mongolian instruments, keyboards and Nature G’s extraordinary vocal abilities—which range from Cookie Monster growl to frog-like throat singing flourishes— Northern Memory tracks like “Cian Bi Rock and Roll,” “Khan Of Heaven” and “Forging” offer a decidedly Asian take on the symphonic folk metal that prospers in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

“I used to listen to a lot of Viking folk metal and things like that, and I was shocked at how they could combine their heritage with heavy metal in such a natural way,” Nature says. “So I wanted to do something from our part of the world that universal society could really appreciate, as opposed to just playing Asian folk songs.” He points to renowned Finnish folk metal troupes Ensiferum and Turisas as early inspirations. “Those bands love their own culture, but also they really want everybody to know what it is,” he observes. “They really try to find something that everybody can understand, so I appreciate that mentality.”

As Nature sees it, the Viking culture of the Scandinavian bands isn’t all that different from the Mongolian culture he invokes in Tengger Cavalry. “The [musical] tone might be different, but you can find many similarities between the Viking culture and the Asian nomadic cultures,” he points out. “I think it’s because of the lifestyle and their religion, which was shamanic and nature-based. The Vikings also wore fur just like the Mongolian nomads from Northern China, because they both lived in cold weather. I think those are the basic human elements that bring those cultures together.”

Though he grew up mostly in Beijing, Nature says he’s always had a strong connection to traditional Mongolian music. “I was playing Mongolian fiddle and throat singing since I was young,” he explains. “But I got into metal and playing guitar around the same time. When I was growing up, Beijing was surprisingly open to American things. We have black metal and death metal in the record store. They have American movies playing. And it’s very multicultural, almost like an Asian version of New York.”

He ought to know. When Nature first moved to the States seven years ago, he lived in New York City—where Tengger Cavalry played Carnegie Hall twice—before eventually settling in Austin, Texas. “Life in Texas is much easier,” he says. “Things are more laid back, and there are more jobs. In New York, all the people and traffic make everything way harder.”

Not that location seems to have any effect on his musical output. Since starting Tengger Cavalry in 2010, he’s been insanely prolific, producing 15 albums in just nine years. And there’s no end in sight. “I try to have a new album out every year, with EPs and other small stuff in between,” he says. “There’s a lot to talk about in nomadic culture with the musical language that we discovered, so we just keep writing the stuff.”

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Tengger Cavalry is a unique experience live. They do not compromise beauty and brutality.

They had a separate set of more traditional folk, and second set that brought the metal.

You can mosh to this band pretending your a Hun warrior, or bask in their magnificence and beauty.

Nature's vocals are incredible and are significantly different than their studio albums, he will do the throat singing, the growling, and something in between which I've never experienced in a show before.

I lost their shirt I bought. I think about it almost every day. Come back to Portland so I can buy two more just in case!

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The opening act Incite was kind of lame, with a lead singer who spent more time badgering the audience to make some noise than actually singing.

However once they got off the stage and Tengger Cavalry came on, the show picked up quickly. Tengger Cavalry played several novel rearrangements of favourite songs, and their stage presentation continues to be a singular delight.

If you're going to the Montreal or Ottawa shows, don't worry if you show up a little late. The opener is nothing special. But Tengger Cavalry is definitely worth the price of admission independent of any opening act.

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Nature Ganganbaigal

Tengger cavalry, september 13, 2016.

Back in the day, when I was still playing heavy metal in high school, I listened to a lot of different styles. You know, like a lot of the other kids, starting with the hardcore metal bands like usual, but then I discovered Scandinavian Viking Folk Metal, and I really like the idea of incorporating their own culture into metal music. So I started to look up to people who put out different Asian Music with metal. Then, I discovered that Mongolian Folk Music, actually, is perfect for heavy metal, because the Mongolians- the nomadic folk music experience is very masculine, very manly, like warriors, those kinds of styles. It's just naturally fitting to Metal music. Some of the (folk) music is very… zen, in-the-forest-meditation, that kind of style, but nomadic music is not one of that. It's very straightforward, very western-like. So I think it's cool and it fits when you put them together.

All over, there's a lot of influence! From the metal perspective, to make it simple, my first favorite band, and I still like them, is SLIPKNOT ! People are pretty surprised when I say that, I like them because they have that really basic, strong Metal spirit that's straightforward. And then I'll listen to very traditional metal like PANTERA , that kind of stuff. I learned about the traditional thrash metal technique and how they express their emotions through this kind of musical genre, and then I got into folk metal. I like all the different kinds like Celtic Folk Metal, Viking Folk Metal… see how they incorporate folk and which ones did better, which ones did worse, try to learn and compare. Now, for the folky part, I would listen to a lot of nomadic folk music around the world- Native American music, Kazakhstan music, Central Asian Folk music, Mongolian Folk music, and, generally, North Asian nomadic music, because that's where the nomadic people are from. You know, I partially have Mongolian and nomadic ancestry from a long time ago. I really can feel it! So I'm really passionate about bringing these things together!

I always really liked American culture, which I probably shouldn't say in China *laughs* but I do! I always listened to American music and, I don't know, there's just something, you know… when you meet someone, you know when you guys agree on the basic things, and that's how I feel about the USA. When I came here, everything felt easy, like, when you do culture, there's no bullshit that complicates it, political or something beyond music that you have to deal with here. Here, people just talk about culture, music, and diversity because everybody is from somewhere else in this country. I find it very easy to make culturally-relative music. That's, actually, I think part of the biggest reason for me to move here. And also, the music industry here is way better, because, you know, in most parts of the world, Metal, especially in certain countries, Metal is not that acceptable. Not specifically politically, but mostly culturally and socially. Even though government has no problem with it, the society has a problem with it, but here, I find that, compared to other countries, it's way better.

That night was a very personal night because a lot of my friends in the traditional American families, they were all out of town, so I couldn't get them to come to the show. I was concerned about ticket sales because, you know, it's Christmas Eve, a lot of people go back to meet their parents or friends- it's a very family-gathering time, and it's hard to sell tickets, but we managed to be sold out! A lot of people actually came from out of town to see us; some person even came from LA to get here to see us! And that's something very special. Also, it was an unplugged concert. We are generally a metal band, but we also do folky concerts, and this was definitely one of them, and we plan to do more! So, you know, we really enjoy playing folk music, too!

And we group that! We can do both, we can do pure, as hard as you want metal, or we can do very light, meditative folk stuff, we like both you know.

Not really, we're just chill about it, you know. We do our job, we see what's coming up, because the tour is really about working hard and improvise because things always happen and you just have to deal with it. We don't think about it too much, just do the grunt work, prepare as much as possible, bring enough clothes, bring enough style, bring enough gear! It's not a good thing to get too excited because, when you get too excited… you have a responsibility to entertain people, you know, it's not your first party where you get drunk and go crazy, you need to let other people do that, but as musicians, our job is to know what is going on, make sure people have fun, put on a good show. That's the most important thing for us.

My first instrument is guitar, but if I had to choose my second instrument, it would definitely have to be the Mongolian horse-head fiddle, because it sits like a cello, but with two strings. Imagine a cello with 2 strings; you have a horse head on it, that's a horse head fiddle. That's a very special instrument. You can play very long, slow, very beautiful, sorrowful melodies, but at the same time, you can play very fierce, very rhythmic, very harsh, very heavy melodies and rhythm, you've got both sides! It's a very expressive instrument!

"Tengger" is a Mongolian word for "sky", so TENGGER CAVALRY is like the cavalry of the sky, or the guardians of nomadic culture, something like that. We don't have a very specific definition but you got the feeling. We want to point out that we relate to the nomadic and shamanic culture, but also we relate to warriors, like the Nordic Vikings, we've got both sides. And that's what we're trying to hint in our name.

In the beginning, it's more like a rough composition. With the really harder stuff, you try to put the 2 things together just to try and make up something very heavy- I guess the early stuff is more heavy and dark, Black Metal a little bit, but over time we somehow… we grow up, we have different mindsets, our life changes, we sort of become more mature, more traditional a little bit, not like "Thrash Metal traditional", just traditional Heavy Metal, not specific stuff, not like the early songs. We have blast beats, Black Metal parts, Death Metal parts, like extreme stuff. But for now, some of the new songs are very Hard Rock like old METALLICA style, that kind of stuff. So I guess somehow becoming more chill, and still very heavy in a very different way- I think that's where we're ensconced.

We're working on signing with a new label, we want to put up a new music video, a new album, and we probably want a new European tour next year because we got a lot of requests from the European fans. We're only touring in America for this time, so we want to play for our fans next year. So, hopefully, it goes well!

We thank our fans for supporting us and we thank Metal Temple for supporting us! I've been reading our reviews from Metal Temple for a long time back in the old albums, so we really appreciate that. Make sure you check us out our Facebook. It's TENGGER CAVALRY ! We post all the tour information, new singles, new promo pictures, and new concerts all over there, so make sure you check it out. Thank you, guys!

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