Sunnata announce new album ‘Chasing Shadows’

SUNNATA have announced a new album!

Titled Chasing Shadows, the upcoming album from the Polish doom metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via self-release.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “the fifth album for a band like ours is no joke. We are extremely proud on one hand, but also exhausted on the other as the creative process pushed us to the current limits. It’s the most complex and longest SUNNATA record to date. Filled with nuances, genre blends and confident expansion of the band’s sound spectrum. Anyone familiar with our discography can easily tell that both change and experimentation are part of our nature, but at the same time – the constant need to push ourselves outside of the comfort zone, go beyond – is what stretches one’s limits. Maybe this is why we liked the title so much – we are chasing the uncatchable –  shadows, illusions, visions and try to frame them with our musical language.” 

Alongside the announcement of the new album, SUNNATA have released a new song from their upcoming album; Chimera.

Speaking about the new song, the band says, “Chimera, the opening track from Chasing Shadows, manifests the presence of duality across the entire universe. Just like a mythical hybrid creature, the song is a bizarre mix of different genres and ideas, glued together into a compelling passage. From a blast beat and Pattonesque vocals, through a ceremonial trance-inducing build-up to a heavy, rock n rolling riffage, Chimera proves to be an amalgamation, binding those pieces together to form a single entity.

The song’s lyrics bind many paradoxes together, posing them as something inherent to reality. Dreamy recall of hinduistic Maya sets the tone of the piece – an ever-evolving appearance, an ever-changing shape. The cycle of life – the one who comes from the horizon and goes away – is prevalent like an imperative. Those who try to deny it and shape the world to their individual needs are fighting for the cause that is unreachable. The evolution binds units together, but also sets them apart. Paradoxes are part of us. Only the one, who is born and dead at the same time, prevails.”

Listen to Chimera here:

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

Track List: 

1. Chimera
2. Torn
3. At Dusk (Interlude)
4. Wishbone
5. Saviour’s Raft
6. Adrift (Reprise)
7. The Tide
8. Hunger
9. Through the Abyss (Interlude)
10. The Sleeper
11. Like cogs in a wheel, we’re trapped between waves of distorted time

Chasing Shadows is set for release on May 10th via self-release. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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