Void Of Vision announce new album ‘What I’ll Leave Behind’

June 13, 2024 James Weaver

VOID OF VISION have announced a new album!

Titled What I’ll Leave Behind, the upcoming album from the Australian metalcore band is the follow-up to their Chronicle EP series (2022’s Underworld, Heaven and 2021’s Lust), and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via UNFD.

The upcoming album will reflect on the harrowing health experience frontman Jack Bergin experienced. In 2022, Bergin had suffered a seizure in the dead of night, nearly biting off his tongue in the process, and fortunately awakening his household who promptly contacted emergency services. Bergin had a “glitch” in his head. An arteriovenous malformation (AVM), to be precise, a tangle of blood vessels in his brain, revealed by MRI and CT scans.

Then, in April last year, Bergin awoke to a searing headache unlike anything he’d experienced before and checked himself into hospital. Scans revealed that the AVM had ruptured, and he was suffering a brain bleed. Surgery was now essential; immediately it was clear that VOID OF VISION’s schedule needed to be wiped clean, as Jack was hospitalised for the foreseeable future.

“Trying to make music for a living is like a bloodsport, but one where even moments of triumph can feel hollow,” Bergin reveals. “At times I felt totally over it, fed up with giving literally everything for people to just not give a shit, at others I’d be mad at myself for indulging in a pity party. My feelings were a constant juxtaposition. The album is a reflection, on and of everything; coming to terms with life and mortality, finding inner peace from within the impact crater.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, VOID OF VISION have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Gamma Knife. Speaking about the new song, Bergin shares, “Gamma Knife is about my near death experience and the desire for clarity in the aftermath. To truly discover if everything I went through in the healing process would change me and everything around me for the better. I felt like the idea of going through radio-surgery figuratively felt like it was not only destroying the malformation in my brain but also a negative version of myself I needed to leave in the past.”

Watch the official music video for Gamma Knife here:

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

Track List:

1. Oblivion
2. Blood For Blood
3. Supernova
4. Neurotic
5. Gamma Knife
6. Beautiful Things
7. Empty
8. Midnight Sweat
9. Decades
10. Angel of Darkness