Portuguese black metallers, Gaerea, have just dropped the news that they are joining as the special guest on Wolves in the Throne Room‘s upcoming European tour. Further support comes from Mortiferum, who are set to open this run of 22 shows. Garea also closed 2023 recording their third album, scheduled for release later this year. Keep reading for more details.
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Gaerea say “The next Generation for the Vortex Society kicks off in May with an European Hunt alongside Wolves in the Throne Room and Mortiferum. New Music. A New Tour. A new Era. Brace Yourselves.”
Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge 2024 European Tour:
May 11: Bornstedt, DE @ Dark Troll Fest
May 16: Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend
May 17: Leipzig, DE @ Wave Gothic Festival
May 18: Warsaw, PL @ Proxima
May 19: Cracow, PL @ Kamienna12
May 20: Budapest, HU @Analog
May 21: Vienna, AUST @ Arena
May 22: Munich, DE @ Feierwerk
May 23: Parma, IT @ Campus
May 24: Luzern, CH @Schuur
May 25: Hollandveen , NL@ Graveland Festival
May 26: Brugge, BE @ Cactus
May 28: Limerick, IRE @ Dolans Warehouse
May 29: Dublin, IRE @ Opium
May 30: Bristol, ENG@ The Fleece
May 31: London, ENG @ Earth
June 01: Glasgow, SCT @ The Garage
June 02: Scarborough, ENG @ Fortress Festival
June 04: Bochum, DE @ Zeche
June 05: Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
June 06: Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan
June 07: Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
Gaerea’s latest release, Mirage, showcases the collective’s intricate attention to details as cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty wash over the listener. On the frontlines of modern extreme metal, Gaerea’s lies in its directness and simplicity meticulously woven in the tapestry of extremity they bring into being. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, Gaerea is leading a charge into the future of darkness – a darkness they eagerly bring across stages all over the world. An unmissable human experience.
Mirage trackliisting
01 Memoir (8:17)
02 Salve (5:26)
03 Deluge (6:31)
04 Arson (8:54)
05 Ebb (5:32)
06 Mirage (6:38)
07 Mantle (5:17)
08 Laude (6:26)
09 Dormant (Bonus track) (7:46)
Total runtime: 1:00:47
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Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of Gaerea deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and two albums to their name, Gaerea has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.
If existential dread could be turned into sound, Gaerea have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us there. “What if people finally reached their goal,” the troupe’s main songwriter posits, “to end their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality, lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is still alive. They are alone inside their own world.” This theme of being alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your own world is the real nightmare, and Gaerea strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable grace.
In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic, Gaerea pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can appreciate, especially in the live setting. “Gaerea are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something different, and primitive,” he asserts. “It still makes total sense, and this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks.”
The beauty of Gaerea lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage, Gaerea is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, Gaerea is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.
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