Wallowing release new music video for ‘Restless Dusk I: The Anamnesis Hymn’

WALLOWING have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Restless Dusk I: The Anamnesis Hymn, is the brand new single from the UK sci-fi extreme metal band and marks their first new music since their latest album, Earth Reaper, which was released in April last year, via Church Road Records.

The new song’s accompanying music video showcases highlights from their performances at ArcTanGent Festival, their 2023 UK tour alongside FROZEN SOUL, and a particularly memorable show at the Bristol branch of Waterstones book stores.

Speaking about the new single, the band shares, “The Anamnesis Hymn is a track with heavy focus on trauma and how it can engulf a person. We wanted to aurally represent the feeling someone may have when trying to come face to face with their own trauma, how overwhelming, chaotic and claustrophobic it can feel.

We recorded and produced this track ourselves as a chance experiment with new sounds and ideas. We also purposely adopted a ‘less is more’ approach with this one to embellish the themes of the track whilst pushing ourselves outside of our generally frenzied comfort zone. The Anamnesis Hymn is the first sonic chapter in an ongoing series of tracks we plan to release under the title of Restless Dusk. This is a direct continuation of our comic book series of the same name with cover artist Luke Oram.”

Watch the official music video for Restless Dusk I: The Anamnesis Hymn here: 

Accompanying the single release, WALLOWING have announced they will release a special anniversary re-issue of 2019’s Planet Loss in August this year. Originally recorded, mixed, and produced by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse in London, UK, the album has undergone remastering for this special re-issue by Scot Moriarty in New Jersey, USA.

Commenting on the upcoming re-issue, the band says, “Planet Loss was the start of a very important journey for us as a band, so to be able to celebrate five years of its existence in such a way is really awesome for us. We were blown away by the support for record upon it’s official release in 2019 and since releasing Earth Reaper in 2023, the increase of interest in our music and it’s concept, it made sense for us to revisit the album with Scot Moriarty, the mastering engineer behind our last album for this special anniversary pressing. Scot [SUNROT, THIN, ORGAN DONOR and many more] has not only embellished the abrasive sound of the original release but also brought the album into the sonic realm of its sequel. This new anniversary variant also sees the inclusion of a new track as well as a rework of the original artwork expanded into a glorious gatefold piece to match the format of 2023’s Earth Reaper.”

And exclusively, we found out more about the artwork on the upcoming remastered album: “the updated cover art for the deluxe remaster is actually a continuation of the original art, which was a standard 12” cover – our cover/comic book artist Luke Oram had the challenge of revisiting the original album art and expanding it into a seamless gatefold piece to suit the new format. So the full gatefold album art (front and back) is actually two images created over five years apart but made to look like one solid landscape image.”

And that’s not all from WALLOWING! In celebration of the remastered release, the band have unveiled the second instalment of their ongoing Restless Dusk comic book series. This collaborative project with artist Luke Oram delves deeper into the narrative of Planet Loss, the band’s inaugural concept album and graphic novel. Continuing from where Issue #1 left off, the second issue delves into the aftermath of the cataclysmic battle depicted in the original book/album. This latest release marks the fourth comic book collaboration between WALLOWING and Oram, offering fans the option to purchase it individually or as part of a bundle with the anniversary album remaster of Planet Loss.

The band tells us, “we are real excited to see the second issue in the Restless Dusk comic series see the light of day. It’s always a very exciting time when we get to work with artist, Luke Oram, on stuff like this as seeing our music transformed into a visual medium never gets old for one, but it also adds a new layer of depth to our music – we are able to hone in on story beats and details in a way that we can’t musically, which overall embellishes and cements the stories we tell within our concept albums.”

Planet Loss (remastered) is set for release on August 23rd via Church Road Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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