Awakening Sun announce new EP ‘I Am More’

August 6, 2023 James Weaver

AWAKENING SUN have announced a new EP!

Titled I Am More, the upcoming EP from the Dutch/Lithuanian metal band is the follow-up to last year’s Heaven Is Whatever, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via their new home Seek and Strike.

Speaking about the new EP, the band says, “we signed with Seek and Strike because from the first moment the connection between us and guys in the label was really easy going, but on a very professional level. After looking through the label’s roster, we thought we were a great fit. With this release, we wanted to take the band’s sound to a new level. We are always excited to work on our new material, because every band member has valuable creative input of the art that is being worked on at that moment. We are a mixture of heavy genres put into one cohesive set of music that punches through their listeners’ ear drums with huge melodies, epic sections with big breakdowns. We’re very proud of this new release and thanks for checking it out.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, AWAKENING SUN have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming EP; Roses. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “the concept of this EP is about someone who’s trying to possess people’s minds. The person never fulfils his dreams and life-goals, that’s why he tries to make it happen through other people’s lives. Roses is the first track which was written for this EP. It’s a connection between our previous album and our new EP. The song is about people who are afraid to speak up against war crimes. In this context, we use the rose as a symbol of freedom for the people who have hope and energy to keep on fighting. The writing process of this record came really naturally from all the shit happening around us. The current state of the world inspired this EP.”

Watch the official music video for Roses here: