Fractal Universe announce new album ‘The Impassable Horizon’

April 28, 2021 James Weaver

FRACTAL UNIVERSE have announced a new album!

Titled The Impassable Horizon, the upcoming album from the progressive death metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s Rhizomes Of Insanity and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Metal Blade Records.

The first ideas of the record emerged in November 2018, before Rhizomes Of Insanity was even released, composition for the whole record took about a year, with the last six months before entering the studio in May of 2020 dedicated to vocal preproduction/arrangements and finalizing the guitar and saxophone solos. Drums were recorded at the band’s own professional recording studio, Boundless Production Studio, in Florange, France, while the other instruments were tracked in their personal home studios. It was overseen by producer Flavien Morel, who has been working with FRACTAL UNIVERSE since the beginning.

“We wanted to keep developing our musical personality and the natural sound we managed to get on Rhizomes,” says drummer Clément Denys. “It’s a very versatile and complex album. Musically speaking, you will find catchy songs which are really direct, progressive and mysterious ballads with epic saxophone solos, and technical songs with intricate riffing.” Elaborates vocalist/guitarist/saxophonist Vince Wilquin, “despite the record being even more diverse, dynamic and including more clean vocals than its predecessor, the overall atmosphere is also slightly darker and more melancholic.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; A Clockwork Expectation. The song’s accompanying music video was shot at Gouffre de Poudrey; France’s largest equipped cave.

Speaking about the new music video, the band says, “we wanted this music video to be shot in a grandiose natural environment. It was a unique and unreal experience to spend two days all alone in the extreme conditions – seventy meters underground, 7°C – of this otherworldly beautiful location. In the middle section, we used UV light and customized the instruments accordingly, to give that part a particular dark vibe! The body-painting parts contributing to that atmosphere were designed by Kazim 2C.”

Watch the official music video for A Clockwork Expectation here:

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

Track List:

1. Autopoiesis
2. A Clockwork Expectation
3. Interfering Spherical Scenes
4. Symmetrical Masquerade
5. Falls of the Earth
6. Withering Snowdrops
7. Black Sails of Melancholia
8. A Cosmological Arch
9. Epitaph
10. Godless Machinists
11. Flashes of Potentialities (Unplugged)