Polaris announce new album ‘Fatalism’
POLARIS have announced a new album!
Titled Fatalism, the upcoming album from the Australian metalcore band is the follow-up to 2020’s The Death Of Me, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via SharpTone Records and Resist Records in Australia.
Shortly after returning from an overseas headlining run in 2022 – the band’s first chance to tour The Death Of Me internationally, the recording process began in Melbourne over a period of five months with the band’s live sound engineer Lance Prenc (who also co-produced the album with the band, mixed and mastered Fatalism) and vocal recording duties were handled by ALPHA WOLF guitarist, Scottie Simpson.
Speaking about the upcoming album, drummer Daniel Furnari says, “for us, fatalism is the resignation to the idea that you have no control over certain things, that some things are almost pre-determined and inevitable. Which seems like a negative and almost fearful notion. But one of the reasons I was drawn to it as a concept and as an album title was that there’s almost a freedom in that idea too. Once you can accept that there are certain things you simply can’t control – it’s actually very liberating. We want people to feel a sense of connection to something outside of themselves when they hear this album. There’s a certain peace that comes with accepting that there are some things larger than yourself and redirecting that fear.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, POLARIS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Inhumane. “Inhumane reflects on the feeling of growing desensitized to death, violence and tragedy due to overexposure,” explains Furnari. “I think for a lot of people over the last few years, when you’re facing a constant barrage of horrible news coming from every corner on a literal daily basis, eventually you reach a point where the initial shock and sadness wear off and you find yourself becoming almost numb to it. It’s like a subconscious defense mechanism – when caring too much becomes too taxing, we stop caring at all. That hollow feeling, or lack of feeling, can come with a lot of guilt, making you question whether your empathy and your humanity have been erased, and in a strange way almost wishing you could feel that pang of fear or sadness again.
The music video for Inhumane, conceived by our director Ed Reiss, takes that concept to a fantastical extreme, and features us falling through the floors of a collapsing apartment building, to find that new horrors (literally) await us on each level…It’s one of the wackiest (and bloodiest) ideas we’ve ever put on screen and I’m still kind of in disbelief that it came together!”
Watch the official music video for Inhumane here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Harbinger
2. Nightmare
3. Parasites
4. Overflow
5. With Regards
6. Inhumane
7. The Crossfire
8. Dissipate
9. Aftertouch
10. Fault Line
11. All In Vein
Fatalism is set for release on September 1st via SharpTone Records (Rest of World) and Resist Records (Australia). Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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