Perturbator announce new album ‘Age Of Aquarius’

June 28, 2025 James Weaver

PERTURBATOR have announced a new album!

Titled Age Of Aquarius, the upcoming album from the Paris-based dark synthwave artist is the follow-up to 2021’s Lustful Sacraments, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, band mastermind James Kent shares, “the first half of Age Of Aquarius is all about conflict. The misanthropy and violence that lays in all of us. The second part of the album then talks about individualism. The understanding that group-thinking leads to nowhere and having your own free will is the single most essential thing we have in life.

We have this climate nowadays of people getting divided over everything. Every debate is two-sided, very extreme, very warlike, and people are very into group thinking: ‘There’s this side of the conflict, and there’s this side of the conflict, and if you’re not on my side, you’re wrong’.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, PERTURBATOR has released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Apocalypse Now. The new song features a guest apparance from ULVER and is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from The Art Of War, which was released back in April.

“Apocalypse Now is a song about the systematic destruction we cause to our own kind. It is our inability to get along with–and often vilify–’the others.’ Thus accelerating the end of our ways of life through simple hubris and self validation,” Kent explains about the new single. Music video director Fitt says, “the lyrics of Apocalypse Now have made me wonder: what would the last war look like? A coup? A war of all against all? A nuclear war? Maybe. Could be. But I realized that what I would love to do, to watch, to happen, is a war of world leaders against themselves. The war they all dream of, but are too cowardly to fight themselves. This would be the ultimate war, in my opinion. And that’s what I aimed to show. And then we’re left wondering: what would be next? What if women took charge? Would power consume them too, eventually? Are we doomed as a species? That’s what I wonder and want people to wonder with me.”

Watch the official music video for Apocalypse Now here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Apocalypse Now (Ft. ULVER)
2. Lunacy
3. Venus (Ft. AUTHOR & PUNISHER)
4. The Glass Staircase
5. Hangover Square
6. The Art of War
7. 12th House
8. Lady Moon (Ft. GRETA LINK)
9. The Swimming Pool
10. Mors Ultima Ratio
12. Age of Aquarius (Ft. ALCEST)