Metal Opera with a Gothic Touch Metal Opera meets a gothic outlook and ancient ritual. Shredding riffs, hypnotic drums, and operatic vocals. Oryad comes from the Temple of Diana, deep in the woods, with music both heavy and expansive. Join us. "Hymns Of Exile & Decay" Out Now Spotify Apple Deezer Bandcamp Amazon CD "The main attraction of Oryad’s music is the incredibly powerful and expressive lyric soprano voice of Moira Murphy."-Metal Goddesses "...the percussion is somehow both elegant and forceful; the guitar runs tasteful, evocatively syncopated and almost more another voice than what one might expect from a metal band. "-Queen City Sounds FIND US ONLINE YouTube Facebook Instagram Email "[one of the] things that really impressed me from the beginning [was] the drummer Matt Gotlin-Sheehan, who shows such imaginative and creative rythmic figures: drum dynamics that set a very special touch to the experience of listening to Rossini’s Stabat Mater."-Heavy Queens BUY COOL MERCH SHOP NOW SUPPORT ORYAD "...the operatic vocals from Moira are out of this world"-Loud Unity