SVNEATR announce new album ‘Never Return’
SVNEATR have announced a new album!
Titled Never Return, the upcoming album from the Canadian black metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Chinook, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Prosthetic Records.
Commencing self-recording in 2022, with vocals and string arrangements recorded by Ryan Shepard at Little Red Sounds as well as mixing, the quartet’s ambitions for Never Return were realised in full thanks in part to a decade of honing their craft to a point of musical and self-actualisation.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Vitharr Monteith says, “on behalf of SVNEATR we are so stoked to be able to announce our third album, Never Return will come out via Prosthetic Records on May 10! To have the confidence of a label like Prosthetic behind us, fueled us to write something special and brought forth our most cathartic record to date. It’s some of our darkest material we’ve written and has more instrumental experimentation than ever before! We’ve believed in this record for a long time so I’m excited for people to finally be able to check it out. It’s the perfect introduction for new fans and to our old faithful who have believed in us from the jump… you’ll see.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, SVNEATR have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the title track Never Return.
Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Vitharr says, “Never Return is the title track and the perfect introduction to the album. It’s a dark and riffy track about where we were when we set out to write a new collection of songs. Stylistically, it’s roots are black metal but what was exciting about this track was how much influence we took from 80s classic metal. It has a hooky chorus interwoven with twin guitar harmonies and lyrics that, while drenched in black metal melancholy, are about that craving and hunger to perform live.
The video was shot during a record setting cold snap. It was somewhere around -15 to -20c and we did it at night! Frost formed on our guitar cases between takes and it affected the batteries in the cameras and the lighting. Grim and frostbitten indeed.”
Watch the official music video for Never Return here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Mechanical Wolves
2. Never Return
3. …And When Comes the Storm
4. Omen
5. Blackout
6. Reaper of the Universe
Never Return is set for release on May 10th via Prosthetic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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