Beyond Grace announce new EP ‘Welcome To The New Dark Ages Part 1’

October 6, 2023 James Weaver

BEYOND GRACE have announced a new EP!

Titled Welcome To The New Dark Ages Part 1, the upcoming EP from the British death metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Our Kingdom Undone, and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via self-release.

The upcoming EP is the first of three releases, each will include an exclusive cover track, all culminating in a physical release containing the entire saga together as a cohesive whole.

Speaking about the upcoming EP, vocalist/bass player Andy Walmsley comments, “it only made sense, after going with the obvious water-theme for the Here Comes The Flood video, to follow it up with something fire-based, and once we’d decided that The Burning Season was going to be the lead/main single for the first EP, well… that just sealed the deal.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, BEYOND GRACE have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming EP; The Burning Season. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming EP, following on from their cover of PETER GABRIEL‘s Here Comes The Flood, which was released back in July.

Speaking about the new song, Walmsley says, “musically speaking The Burning Season is easily one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written, and features some of the tightest, sharpest songwriting of our career. The lyrics reflect my own very real fears and anger about the path we’re on, where it seems like more and more people are rejecting science in favour of superstition, demonising ideals like compassion and understanding while lionising cruelty and ignorance as if they were virtues. It seems to me that there’s not a huge step from banning books to burning them, and if we’re not careful – as comfortable and as complacent as we’ve become – we’re in danger of repeating the same mistakes that led to all our past dark ages all over again.”

Watch the official music video for The Burning Season here: