Toundra announce new album ‘HEX’
TOUNDRA have announced a new album!
Titled HEX, the upcoming album from the Spanish instrumental rock band is the follow-up to 2020’s Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, and is scheduled to be released in January next year, via InsideOut Music.
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the band members bought the necessary equipment to be able to set up small and indecent studios in their homes and began to send ideas for new songs in a chaotic way at first. Without knowing very well where they were going or knowing very well what they might find. In the summer of 2020, the band began meeting in Madrid again to review the material that had been sent. The composition work led them to finish the demos for their new album HEX, under the always faithful sight of Raúl Rodríguez, in May 2021. The next step was to trust Sati García again, who transferred them to Cal Pau Studios again.
Speaking about the upcoming album, the band says, “writing each new TOUNDRA album means doing a job to find each other as a band. From our most innocent early days we have been self-righteous enough to take every step that we have taken as a band too seriously maybe. Every time we think about writing new albums we even suffer for it. This album means a job in which the four of us have rediscovered what we wanted to do without really knowing how we did it. The ideas were coming up in a chaotic way during the first months until little by little we saw how everything was being arranged in various notebooks and on the blackboard of our premises. Finally, the extreme cruelty that we can see around us (closer and closer) served as a catalyst to be able to give order to a lot of ideas, songs and, ultimately, to this new album. We are looking forward to finally presenting it to the fans now.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; El Odio Part I. The new song is the first of three singles that will later form one long piece of music and the song’s accompanying music video saw the band collaborate with Asturian director Jorge Carbajales.
Watch the official music video for El Odio Part I here:
Whilst the track list is yet to be revealed, you can view the artwork for the upcoming album below:
HEX is set for release on January 14th via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders will be available soon.
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