Kardashev announce new album ‘Alunea’

KARDASHEV have announced a new album!

Titled Alunea, the upcoming album from the Arizona-based deathgaze band is the follow-up to 2022’s Liminal Rite, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Metal Blade Records.

The upcoming album includes guest appearances by vocalist Erin from the band GENITAL SHAME on Speak Silence and Pawel JJ Przybysz who played duduk, an Armenian woodwind instrument, on “We Could Fold The Stars, and artwork by Karl E. The album was mixed and mastered by Zack Ohren [ENTHEOS, MACHINE HEAD, DEMON KING, FALLUJAH].

“Alunea has much more experimentation when compared to previous releases,” says singer Mark Garrett. “It’s a very proggy album.” Guitarist Nico Mirolla concurs.

“I’ve loved tinkering with languages since I was a little kid,” says Garrett. “I’m not an expert when it comes to constructed languages, often referred to as ‘conlangs’, but I find language to be a really interesting aspect of humanity.”

“I was dabbling in the beginnings of the language of Alunea years before we added it to our record The Almanac [2017],” he continues. “I would sit at my desk at work – a call center at the time – and make up interesting grammatical rules to pass the time. One of my favorites was having the length of a vowel add plurality to a word. I didn’t create that concept, but it was fun to play with. Years later when Nico and our previous bassist suggested I bring my interest in conlangs to our music, the vowel length concept was what I started with. It all grew from there.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, KARDASHEV have released a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Reunion. Speaking about the new song, Garrett shares, “Reunion is part of the imaginary mythology we have written for our far-off descendants. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of years ago, our offspring will have their own stories of how life and society came to be. Reunion tells a chapter in this mythology in which two pivotal figures meet in open air. The main character from The Almanac, who is named Sky-Brother, has traveled across space and time to meet a being created by mankind to form a new civilization on a distant world. The track’s musical DNA is rooted in the sounds of bands like THE CONTORTIONIST, CARETTES AFTER SEX, and FALLUJAH, with intense death metal aggression, whimsical atmospheres drenched in reverb, and a bigger than life uplifting melodies. KARDASHEV likes to think of the melodic story as an allegory for hope.”

Watch the official lyric video for Reunion here: 

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

Track List: 

1. A Precipice. A Door.
2. Reunion
3. Seed Of The Night
4. Speak Silence
5. Truth To Form
6. Edge of Forever
7. We Could Fold The Stars
8. Below Sun & Soil

Alunea is set for release on April 25th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here. 

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