Ukrainian electro‑gothic rock outfit Metameria are preparing to release their third full‑length, Electro Romantica, on 24 April. The record offers a deeply personal reflection on the hardships of recent years, blending the dark intensity of their earlier work with a new emotional depth. Its lyrics confront human suffering, uncertainty, and how the war has reshaped everyday life.
The band have presented the first single and lyric video, "Хворі Уяви (Khvori Uiavy)", commenting: "Хворі Уяви (Khvori Uiavy)" is one of the first singles from our forthcoming third album. It is a reflection on the trials we were forced to endure, and on how the war irreversibly reshaped our lives, our reality, and the way we see the world".
Speaking about the album, the band add: "Electro Romantica is our long-awaited third album. The first was released in 2016, the second in 2020 — and only now, after many years, the third has finally come into being. This record began its life back in those distant days when our debut album Minuty Sochteny was first released. From that moment onward, its sound and atmosphere were slowly forming — and in Electro Romantica the darkest and most fragile ideas of our first two albums are gathered, reimagined, and deepened. Its lyrics are steeped in the sorrow of war, in human suffering, and in the uncertainty that has become part of our everyday existence. Yet despite this weight, the album remains remarkably diverse: each composition follows its own path, while together they weave a single emotional fabric — dark, delicate, and piercing. For the first time in the history of Metameria, all lyrics on this album are written in Ukrainian — as the inner voice of our time, as a necessary and honest testimony of the era. This is also the first album in the band's history that Ihor recorded almost entirely on his own, investing in it not only sound, but years of personal journey."
Electro Romantica is the result of several years of work, created across cities and countries: developed in Ukraine at the Odesa studio throughout 2023–2024, shaped in Spain in the city of A Coruña, where it was mixed and mastered in 2025, and finally completed in Eastbourne in the United Kingdom — the place where this story ultimately found its voice. Link

Electro Romantica tracklist:
01. Metarealist
02. Transformatsiia Idealiv
03. Khvori Uiavy
04. Vendetta
05. Strashni Pisni
06. Shchos Ne Tak
07. Modnyi Klub
08. Sira Nostalhiia
09. Totalitarnyi Morok
10. Dva Zhyttia (Instrumental Remix)

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