Hypno5e announce new album ‘A Distant (Dark) Source’

October 3, 2019 James Weaver

HYPNO5E have announced a new album!

Titled A Distant (Dark) Source, the upcoming album from the French cinematic metallers is scheduled to be released in November this year.

After the acoustic special album Alba –Les Ombres Errantes last year, the Southern French quartet are now returning with a more “typical” HYPNO5E record, if there is such a thing: their fifth album, A Distant (Dark) Source, is the second part of a diptych album project.

“At the origin of this distant dark source lies Tauca, an old Paleolithic lake located in Bolivia, where singer and guitarist Emmanuel Jessua has grown up, and continues to find inspiration for his musical endeavors,” the band explain. “Lake Tauca disappeared more than 15 000 years ago, leaving behind an arid land and salt lakes, like the Salt Desert of Uyuni or Coipasa, at 4.500m of altitude in the Andes mountain range. A Distant (Dark) Source is the musical imagination of a night in this desert, during which the old shores of the lake see the return of the shadows of the people who used to live in this area before its disappearance. A man comes back to the lake to look for the shadow of the woman he loved. The album tells the story of this ephemeral return.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the 18-minute long title track.

Watch the official music video for A Distant Dark Source here:

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

Track List:

1. On the Dry Lake
2. In the Blue Glow of Dawn – Part I
3. In the Blue Glow of Dawn – Part II
4. In the Blue Glow of Dawn – Part III
5. A Distant Dark Source – Part I
6. A Distant Dark Source – Part II
7. A Distant Dark Source – Part III
8. On Our Bed of Soil – Part I
9. On Our Bed of Soil – Part I
10. On Our Bed of Soil – Part III
11. Tauca – Part II (Nowhere)

A Distant (Dark) Source is set for release on November 22nd via Pelagic Records.

For more information on HYPNO5E like their official page on Facebook.