Void of Sleep have announced that they will be releasing their 4th album, The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare, via Aural Music, on October 17th. They have already released a teaser video, and the first single from the full-length, “Omens of Nothingness.” Catch them below with more from the band.
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Ominously titled The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare, “Our new album is the soundtrack to the decline of a narcissistic, self-centered society that has lost all respect for itself and for the world around it,” state Void of Sleep. “Musically, the album marks first the first time in which synthesizers were involved in the writing process from the very beginning. This shift allowed the band to take a broader, more progressive approach to composition, resulting in a sound that is both more personal and more contemporary – a significant step forward in the band’s evolution.”
Forged in Ravenna, Italy in 2010, Void of Sleep – guitarist Gale, vocalist / guitarist Burdo, drummer Allo, and bassist Paso – conjure a cosmic amalgam of progressive sludge rock where epic rhythms melt into bottom-heavy doom breakdowns, complex time-signatures, and psychedelia. Following a three-song promo EP, Giants & Killers, which garnered the attention of Italian imprint Aural Music, the band released their full-length debut, Tales Between Reality and Madness, in 2013. The record proved wholly engrossing both sonically and thematically, with lyrics exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, oneiric visions, and lysergic nightmares.
With New World Order, released in late 2015, Void of Sleep continued their multi-faceted audio journey towards oblivion, featuring a new sound more complex and sludgier but even more melodic and more progressive. The seven-track concept album was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois. The album was included in different charts among the best albums of 2015 in several webzines and magazines.
Following some lineup changes, with the departure of bassist Paso and the arrival of new bassist Andrea Burgio and keyboardist Mohammed Ashraf, the band settled into a five-member lineup, which recorded the previous album Metaphora and is now presenting the new, long-awaited fourth album.
The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare tracklisting:
01 Dark Gift
02 Omens From Nothingness
03 Misfortune Teller
04 Lullaby of Woe
05 From An Unborn Mother
06 Phantoms of Nihil
07 Of A Demon In My View
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