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AUSTERE have unveiled the video clip ‘Time Awry‘ as the first single taken from the black & dark metal duo’s forthcoming new album “The Stillness of Dissolution“. The band from Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia will release their fifth full-length on June 6, 2025.
Album details of “The Stillness of Dissolution” and all currently confirmed tour dates can be viewed below. The video ‘Time Awry‘, which illustrates the theme of decay, is now available for immediate publication via this link: https://youtu.be/hoDRGiAf3r0 |
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AUSTERE ‘Time Awry’
taken from the album “The Stillness of Dissolution” https://youtu.be/hoDRGiAf3r0 |
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AUSTERE comment: “The first single, ‘Time Awry’ was the second song written for ‘The Stillness of Dissolution’, our forthcoming new album”, guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist Mitchell Keepin explains on behalf of the duo. “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.”
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With their fifth album “The Stillness of Dissolution”, AUSTERE embark 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.
Following on the heels of “Beneath the Threshold” (2024) that was a defining statement of the musical present and the embrace of their musical future by the Australian duo after their 13-year hiatus and the bridging album “Corrosion of Hearts” (2023). The new album brings an overall blacker feel to their sound. This slight change of course does not constitute an easy nostalgic return to the old days as AUSTERE remain within the framework of the more mature and defined version of their particular style of depressive black metal, which reflects their greater experience and evolution as artists. AUSTERE‘s sonic heritage remains alive on “The Stillness of Dissolution”. Their roots in early Norse black metal and its depressive Scandinavian offspring remain clearly audible. This also applies to their more recent evolution into emotive expressiveness and added blackgaze leanings. AUSTERE arose from a solo-project run by multi-instrumentalist and singer Desolate alias Mitchell Keepin who joined forces with drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist Sorrow aka Tim Yatras in 2005. Signature frost-bitten guitars, alongside high-pitched screams and wails marked AUSTERE‘s debut album “Withering Illusions and Desolation” (2007). AUSTERE are back in black with “The Stillness of Dissolution”, yet the Australians also keep all the subtle shades of grey that turn the ongoing evolution of their music into a thrilling experience of new sonic spaces of dark matter.
Band: Austere
Album title: The Stillness of Dissolution Release date: June 6, 2025 Label: Prophecy Productions Style: Dark Metal Review Impact Date: May 5, 2025 Line-up Recorded & engineered by Austere at Équinoxe Studios, Wollongong (AU) Artwork by Mitchell Keepin Links Formats |
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About Prophecy Productions
Prophecy Productions are an international label and were originally founded by their owner Martin Koller in Germany in 1996. From the beginning, the label has the declared aims of providing a dedicated home for dark stirring music and to offer long-term collaborations to artists signing into the family. This concept has generated a roster displaying a stylistic emphasis on dark music from different genres such as metal and rock, alternative, and folk. Signees on the label are generally characterised by a strong artistic vision, which is reflected in premium physical products. Prophecy Productions is best known for artists such as Empyrium, Alcest, Arcturus, Tenhi, Dool, and The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices feat. Lisa Gerrard. Prophecy Productions are a part of the independent media group SPKR. |
AUSTERE release video single & details of new album
