Polaris announce new album ‘The Death Of Me’

POLARIS have announced a new album!

Titled The Death Of Me, the upcoming album from the Aussie metalcore crew is their hotly anticipated second effort and is scheduled to be released in February next year.

“We wanted to walk a line between maintaining what’s defined our band and brought people to our music in the first place, while trying to write for ourselves and keep ourselves interested,” begins drummer Daniel Furnari, one of the main songwriters in the unit. “Being our second full-length, we knew it was important for us to surprise the listener as well – nobody wants to hear the same record twice. We wanted to give them things they wouldn’t expect, take them to new places, but also for it to be definitively a POLARIS record, building on what we’ve been working towards.”

For the new album, the band returned to the house in the small Australian South Coast town of Mollymook where they made their debut, The Mortal Coil, converting it into a temporary studio. The familiar surrounds acted as something of a refuge after the high-pressure claustrophobia of touring. Accompanying the band was their front of house sound engineer, Lance Prenc, and long-time friend Scott Simpson (of Melbourne band ALPHA WOLF), both of whom co-produced the album with the band.

As the main lyric writer in POLARIS, Furnari warns that The Death Of Me contains some of the bleakest material he’s ever penned, with recurring lyrical motifs and ideas floating throughout. “We’ve experienced more of the world and gone out of our comfort zone, and I think that’s audible in the music,” he says. “I think a lot of things people enjoyed about The Mortal Coil we’ve managed to retain, but we’ve stretched the envelope further in every direction of what we consider to be our sound. I just don’t think we could have thought of most of this stuff two years ago.”

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

Track List: 

01. Pray For Rain
02. Hypermania
03. Masochist
04. Landmine
05. Vagabond
06. Creatures Of Habit
07. Above My Head
08. Martyr (Waves)
09. All Of This Is Fleeting
10. The Descent

The Death Of Me is set for release on February 21st via SharpTone Records. 

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