Polaris announce debut album ‘The Mortal Coil’
POLARIS have announced a brand new album!
The new album, titled The Mortal Coil, is POLARIS‘ debut album and is scheduled for release this November. The album was recorded in the band’s self-made studio in Mollymook, New South Wales, and had duo Carson Slovak and Grant MacFarland of Atrium Audio, who produced, engineered and mixed AUGUST BURNS RED‘s Grammy-nominated album Found In Far Away Places, overseeing the recording. Speaking about the new album, guitarist Rick Schneider says, “recording The Mortal Coil was unlike any studio experience we’d had before, both in location and environment. A few hours south of Sydney we rented a holiday house, not knowing how well it would suit our needs. We managed to set up two work stations and quickly found ourselves in a focused, yet highly relaxed work environment. While stress would inevitably makes its way into the process, the end result is something we are all very proud of, and I’ll personally always look back on that month fondly.”
Alongside the announcement of their debut album, POLARIS have also released a new single and music video for the track The Remedy. Speaking about the song, drummer Daniel Furnari says, “the lyrics for this song are introspective in a very stark, critical way – it’s a song about feeling trapped by your own bad habits, feeling like you’re just stumbling around blindly making mistake after mistake without really learning anything from it. We’ve always tended mostly towards writing from a very personal, vulnerable place and I think lyrically there’s a lot of uncomfortable truths on this record.” Speaking about the accompanying music video, bassist and vocalist Jake Steinhauser adds, “filming for The Remedy took place over a single afternoon at mine and Daniel‘s old high school, who were kind enough to let us use their green screen. Unlike previous videos we’ve done, we all shot our takes individually which posed as somewhat of a challenge without other people playing around us to feed off of. We chose to work with the guys at Red Boss again as we felt they suited the project and were really able to guide and expand on the idea that we had.”
Watch the official music video for The Remedy here:
You can view the track list and artwork for The Mortal Coil below:
Track List
01. Lucid
02. The Remedy
03. Relapse
04. Consume
05. Frailty
06. In Somnus Veritas
07. Dusk To Day
08. Casualty
09. The Slow Decay
10. Crooked Path
11. Sonder
You can also catch the band as part of the Impericon Never Say Die Tour 2017, alongside EMMURE, DEEZ NUTS, CHELSEA GRIN, KUBLAI KHAN, SWORN IN and LORNA SHORE. Tour dates are as follows:
02.11.17 Germany Hamburg @ Gruenspan
03.11.17 Germany Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof
04.11.17 Belgium Brugges @ Entreepot
05.11.17 UK London @ The Electric Ballroom
06.11.17 UK Manchester @ Club Academy
07.11.17 UK Glasgow @ Garage
08.11.17 UK Cardiff @ Tramshed
09.11.17 Holland Haarlem @ Patronaat
10.11.17 Germany Berlin @ SO36
11.11.17 Poland Wroclaw @ Zaklęte Rewiry
12.11.17 Czech Rep Prague @ Storm Club
13.11.17 Hungary Budapest @ Dürer Kert
14.11.17 Austria Wien @ Arena
15.11.17 Italy Bologna @ Zona Roveri
16.11.17 Germany München @ Backstage
17.11.17 Switzerland Pratteln @ Z7
18.11.17 France Lyon @ MJC O Totem
19.11.17 Spain Barcelona @ Razzmatazz 2
20.11.17 Spain Madrid @ Caracol
21.11.17 Day Off
22.11.17 France Savigny Le Temple @ L’Empreinte
23.11.17 Germany Saarbrücken @ Garage
24.11.17 Germany Leipzig @ Werk 2
25.11.17 Germany Köln @ Essigfabrik
26.11.17 Germany Stuttgart @ LKA
The Mortal Coil is set for release on November 3rd via SharpTone and Resist Records.
For more information on POLARIS like their official page on Facebook.