Australian veteran darkgaze/depressive black metal duo Austere has shared a new single/video, "Time Awry", as the first single from its forthcoming fifth full-length, The Stillness Of Dissolution, due on 6 June via Prophecy Productions.
Austere's guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist Mitchell Keepin comments: "The first single, 'Time Awry' was the second song written for The Stillness Of Dissolution, our forthcoming new album. The first few songs written for the album tend to have a slightly more stripped back 'rock' sound than those written later, and that is on display here. Lyrically, it is presented from the viewpoint of a betrayed and solemn soul - a man with a heightened awareness of the inescapable running of time and seeking to accelerate that process".
With The Stillness Of Dissolution Austere embarks on a dark journey that leads through the abyss of time, the inevitable return of order to chaos into the black void. In the words of the poet: everything that arises is worth that it perishes.
As always before, Austere's sonic heritage remains alive in The Stillness Of Dissolution. Its roots in early Norse black metal and its depressive Scandinavian offspring remain clearly audible. This also applies to the band's more recent evolution into emotive expressiveness and added blackgaze leanings. Link
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28 MAR 2025 Mont de Coeuve (CH) Witch's Hollow Festival
29 MAR 2025 Paris (FR) Le Java
30 MAR 2025 Antwerpen (BE) Samhain Fest
31 MAR 2025 Bochum (DE) Die Trompete
02 APR 2025 Bordeaux (FR) Salem
03 APR 2025 Bilbao (ES) Mytho
08 APR 2025 Erfurt (DE) From Hell
09 APR 2025 Erba (IT) Centrale Rock
10 APR 2025 Praha (CZ) Modra Vopice
11 APR 2025 Wien (AU) Escape
12 APR 2025 Budapest (HU) Robot
13 APR 2025 Košice (SK) Collosseum
20 APR 2025 München (DE) Dark Easter Metal Meeting
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22 MAY 2025 Fortitude Valley, QLD (AU) Soapbox
23 MAY 2025 Newtown, NSW (AU) The Vanguard
24 MAY 2025 Richmond, VIC (AU) The Leadbeater
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