Neaera – All Is Dust
Metal Blade Records
8,5/10,0
Brief:
German metalcore veterans NEAERA, who are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year, will release their All Is Dust full-length on June 28th via Metal Blade Records.
By 2021, the NEAERA collective decided it was time for new material. With a desire to return to an old school writing approach when songs were composed together in a musty rehearsal room, the band started the writing process. By 2022, the band recruited Janosch Rathmer (drummer of long-time friends/German post-rock institution Long Distance Calling) to record their new album, All Is Dust. Mixing and mastering for the record was skillfully executed by Kristian Kohle at Kohlekeller Studios who adorned the songs with a powerful yet organic sound that perfectly fit the band’s vision of their new material and approach.
Lyrically, NEAERA shifted their approach a bit and put the individual, its survival ,and sanity in these testing times center stage alongside lyrics that tackle global and social clamor – a shift that was arguably pandemic-related.
All Is Dust features cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design (Oceans Of Slumber, Evergrey, Vomitory) and will be released on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl.
2024 marks the 20th band anniversary and is the perfect timing to release the eighth studio album, ALL IS DUST!
Tracklist:
- Antidote To Faith
- Pacifier
- All Is Dust
- Swords Unsheathed
- Per Aspera
- Edifier
- In Vain
- Render Fear Powerless
- Dividers
- Into The Hollow
Main Focus Tracks:
- Pacifier
- All Is Dust
- Edifier
Other Recommended Tracks:
- Swords Unsheathed
- Per Aspera
- Render Fear Powerless
Line-Up:
Benny Hilleke – vocals
Stefan Keller – guitars
Tobias Buck – guitars
Benjamin Donath – bass
Sebastian Heldt – drums
Comments:
Neaera offer a varied and engaging album, somewhere between death metal, hardcore and post black metal. A brutal, aggressive, original and uncompromising album!
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Selected Discography:
2005 – The rising tide of oblivion
2006 – Let the tempest come
2007 – Armamentarium
2009 – Omnicide – Creation Unleashed
2010 – Forging the eclipse
2013 – Ours is the storm
2020 – Neaera
2024 – All is dust
Photo Credit: band