The USA-based dark folk innovators Lux Interna have presented the first single/lyric video, "Into Night", from their forthcoming album, New Wilderness Gospel, slated for release on 2 May via recently signed with Auerbach Tonträger.

Lux Interna's guitarist and singer Joshua Levi Ian comments on behalf of the band: "The first advance track, 'Into Night', is the oceanic heart of New Wilderness Gospel as it weaves together many of the diverse tones and textures that define the album. Lyrically, the song captures a pivotal moment of transformation in the narrative arc. Written in our mountain cabin in Northern California during a series of severe and unrelenting storms, the piece attempts to capture the uncanny blurring and blending of inner and outer landscapes that can occur during periods of prolonged absence from anthropocentric environments. In this world, the trees sway madly, their branches wave and scrape and scratch wildly against the thick hide of the night sky, and it feels as though they'd tear the moon down for company if they could. Then the static of the storm and the howls of the wind slowly coagulate into music. Into a message. And the whiskey in your glass conspires with the torrential rain to wash away the illusion of chronological time. Here, St. John's 'dark night of the soul' opens up to an even older, wilder darkness. And in this darkness, a pure, sparkling moment of presence. God is there. And the dead are alive again. And the night reveals its hidden face as mercy, as the possibility of redemption. Or so the old mountain stories would have it - but who knows how reliable those storytellers are? They certainly spend too much time alone in the deep woods to be trusted!"

With its fifth album, New Wilderness Gospel, Lux Interna presents the centrepiece of a larger ongoing multimedia work that envisions an anthropogenic apocalypse. The seeds of this artistic synthesis were planted during Joshua's research for his doctoral dissertation, which involved translating and interpreting early modern esoteric manuscripts related to the heterodox mystic Jacob Böhme and his inner circle in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands.

With the new album, the band reveals a thought-provoking and warning image of a natural apocalypse that has already sent its harbingers to this world. The writing is on the wall - or rather, in the lyrics and the breathtaking beauty of its music. Hark! Link