EMPTINESS unveil new album details
EMPTINESS unveil new album details
Belgian experimental death and black metal band EMPTINESS have unveiled new details about their highly-anticipated new album. The album, titled 'Not For Music', was recorded at Blackout Studio, produced by Jeordie White (MARYLIN MANSON), and mixed by Sean Beavan (GUNS AND ROSES, NINE INCH NAILS and more). 'Not For Music' will be released by Season of Mist worldwide on January 20. Pre-orders for the album are available now at the Season of Mist E-Shop.
EMPTINESS are streaming the first new track off their new album, 'Not For Music'. Melancholic, brooding, and foreboding, the menacing track titled "Meat Heart" is below:
Regarding the track, EMPTINESS comment: "Do you honestly think that your emotions make you an individual being? The loss of a loved one, the memories of a past life, everything here exists so you confront your own egocentricity. 'Meat Heart' is a necessary setting for the dreaded self-reflecting voyage that awaits you. It is 'Not for Music', it is about light and darkness."The album track list and cover art for 'Not for Music' can be found below.
Track List:
1. Meat Heart
2. It Might Be
3. Circle Girl
4. Your Skin Won't Hide You
5. Digging The Sky
6. Ever
7. Let it Fall
In addition to the new album announcement, EMPTINESS have also just announced their inclusion in to ROADBURN festival, where the band will join label mates CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, AUÃN, and ZHRINE! More information about the festival can be found here.
Founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1998, EMPTINESS have since maintained a vision to explore darkness and horror, while taking musical inspiration from the extreme aspects of black and death metal, approaching these in a truly unique experimental way. The band have since created waves in the underground, and a cult following, after the release of 4 well-received lengths, the latest of which have earned the band several "best of the year" mentions.
EMPTINESS prefer to express their biography in their own words:
"Think having, think defending your turf, but once asleep I will dance on your bones. So go and hope boy… Go mash the roots of knowledge… Nothing really matters when you are nothing, nothing but the whole. But we know what lies behind the curtain; all is known but no one knows… These are the melting words, the tale of a burning man, the concrete and the anti-life. It’s so easy to open yourself and control hazard. Think those corpses are just alive for a little while, let them dance and love each other. And all will be blurring because all is not, each step tightening the knot more. The liquid and the light, as a start and an end. Between the two, being a flaccid stone. Breaking out of the egg, prison from the past. The past is death, so let’s get fried by the future. Escape with me, let’s get drowned in the lowland. There, sleeps the answer for all life and death. And remember, meaning is a liar, questions and answers never meet."