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France’s dark progressive metal band, The Old Dead Tree, have returned with their new single, “Time Has Come.” The track is the second taken from the forthcoming EP, London Sessions, and comes with an official video. London Sessions will be released digitally, on November 28, via Season of Mist records. Watch the new video and find out more below.

Pre-save London Sessions here: https://orcd.co/todtlondonsessions

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with François-Maxime Boutault (Behemoth, Dagoba) and mastered by Tony Lindgren (Opeth, Paradise Lost), the track captures a pivotal moment in the band’s evolution; where intensity and emotion meet in perfect tension. As part of this special recording, The Old Dead Tree deliver a sound both immediate and introspective, a synthesis of the aggression of metal and the sensitivity of progressive rock. “Time Has Come” stands as both farewell and renewal: a song aware of its own impermanence, yet unflinching in its truth.

London Sessions tracklisting:
01 Feel Alive Again
02 Time Has Come
03 By The Way (London Sessions 2025)
04 What Else Could We’ve Said (London Sessions 2025)

Spearheading the French dark prog metal scene for more than 20 years, The Old Dead Tree have created a unique universe combining extreme music and dark rock-pop, sublimated by Manuel Munoz’s exceptional and versatile vocals. Just as the band had released their first EP, The Blossom, in 1999, drummer Frédéric Guillemot took his own life. The shock profoundly scarred the other three members of the band, and formed the basis of the concept for their debut album, The Nameless Disease. Following its release in 2003 on Season Of Mist, the immediate success of this seminal album led the band to hit the road with Paradise Lost, Opeth and Katatonia, introducing their music to metalheads across Europe.

Two critically acclaimed albums followed, The Perpetual Motion (2005) and The Water Fields (2007), making The Old Dead Tree a pillar of the French metal scene and a reference point for progressive metal in Europe. By the end of 2008, just as work had begun on a fourth album, the wear and tear of the necessary personal investment proved too much for some of the band to bear. The Old Dead Tree officially split up in 2009.

Over the following years, the musicians moved apart geographically and became involved in other musical projects (Penumbra, Arkan, Ommatidia, Lux Incerta), but their solid friendship never wavered. In 2013, The Old Dead Tree briefly reunited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album The Nameless Disease with a mini European tour that included stops at Hellfest and Motocultor. A few years later, following the Covid 19 crisis and the general questioning that it provoked, the members of the band started considering to reunite for good. After several months of doubt and discussion, the decision is finally taken to write and record a new song.

In the spring of 2023, the popularity of the new single “Terrified” and the band’s high-profile appearance at Hellfest paved the way for THE Old Dead Tree’s long-lasting comeback. By the beginning of 2024, while composing its first album in 17 years, The Old Dead Tree is offered the opportunity to record an EP at the world’s most prestigious music studio: the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, Radiohead). Right after this unique experience, the band quickly dived back into the writing and recording processes for the album Second Thoughts which was released by the end of 2024. In the spring 2025, as The Old Dead Tree toured France with Klone and achieved the production of the 4 tracks recorded in Abbey Road Studios to give birth to the EP London Sessions.

Line-up:
Manuel Munoz — Vocals
Nicolas Chevrollier — Guitars & backing vocals
Nicolas Cornolo — Guitars
Gilles Moinet — Bass guitar
Raphaël Antheaume — Drums

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