GAEREA - RELEASE TODAY "COMA" NEW ALBUM! [2024.10.25]
Extreme metal outfit
GAEREA have
just released their new album "Coma" today via Season of Mist!
GAEREA
arrived shrouded in mystery. The masked sensations emerged from pandemic limbo
with a vision for black metal that was guided not by myths or pagan beliefs but
a purging of emotion. Existential dread still pulses through the Portuguese
band's blood, but their fourth album signals a shift in psychology.
With "Coma",GAEREA
are no longer strictly a black metal band. Instead, they're breaking to the
forefront of extreme metal. Though their new album was produced by trusted
confidant Miguel Tereso, it broadens the band's signature sound by taking
it in two seemingly opposed directions. There are more moments of intense
beauty, but they only heighten the ensuing blows.
GAEREA have
returned to prove that they are only the band who can guide us into the
darkness.
"As someone who's already heard Coma in full, you're getting a glimpse at one
of the best metal records of 2024", wrote Metal Injection
Hear all ten beautiful and bloodied songs today by listening to the full album
playlist on Season of Mist's
YouTube channel, which features several all-new visualizers.
Production Credits
Produced by GAEREA
Recorded by Miguel Tereso at Redbox
Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Miguel Tereso at Demigod Studios
"This is the band's best-sounding album to date. It's powerful, dark,
menacing, driven, melancholic, rich, textured, atmospheric - it's all of the
above" - A&P Reacts
"This is Gaerea at their most vulnerable and fragile emotionally but
strongest musically, not just reaching but exceeding everyone’s hopes and
leaving your heart shattered in the best possible way" - Distorted Sound
"Bigger, more confident and with a more varied musical palette, Coma is
hideously strong" - Wonderbox Metal
"when they put their cloaked heads down, Gaerea indubitably deliver the
goods" - Metal Hammer
"Gaerea are back and ready to conquer the world" - Metal Temple
(10/10)
"Quite simply some of the finest, most dynamic shit you've heard all year"
- Metal Bites (9/10)
"Much like the highly anticipated sequel to a major box office hit, Coma came
with all the preconceived notions and baggage, and yet it still manages to
completely blow the fucking roof off" - Ghost Cult Magazine
GAEREA // COMA MERCH
You have an exclusive early access to brand new Merchandise from the "Coma"
era!
Cathartic black metal outfit
GAEREA have
just released their new music video for "Unknown" track from their new album "Coma" scheduled to be
released on the 25th of October 2024 via Season of Mist!
The enigmatic band comments:"Vortex society!
Thank you all for the amazing support we have received from all corners of the
world! The launch of "Coma" has been a great success so far and we couldn’t have
achieved this milestone without each and every one of you. Thank you for being
part of this incredible journey.
As our token of gratitude to the Vortex Society, we are excited to share the new
track 'Unknown' with you all.
To capture the essence of 'Unknown', we embarked on a journey spanning thousands
of miles to Sweden. There, we had the privilege of working with the esteemed
Claudio Marino to produce the accompanying music video."
PRE-ORDER "COMA":
If you haven't pre-ordered the album yet, you can do so at the link below: https://orcd.co/gaereacoma
["Coma" Artwork by Nathan Lorenzana]
"Coma" Tracklist: 1. The Poet's Ballet (7:39) 2. Hope Shatters (4:05) [WATCH] 3. Suspended (5:02) 4. World Ablaze (3:29) [WATCH] 5. Coma (5:19) [WATCH] 6. Wilted Flower (5:50) 7. Reborn (3:51) 8. Shapeshifter (6:24) 9. Unknown (4:24) 10. Kingdom of Thorns (4:45) Total runtime: 50:54
GAEREA // COMA MERCH
You have an exclusive early access to brand new Merchandise from the "Coma"
era!
The band comments: "To thank you for your incredible support and
patience, we're also releasing exclusive behind-the-scenes content, more singles
and music and play through videos. We have special pre-order packages and
limited-edition merchandise which you can order here:
https://www.gaerea.com/store
Your unwavering support has been our biggest thrive so we can't wait to share
this new chapter with you. Get ready to experience "Coma" and join us in
celebrating its release!
Order Merch"
USA TOUR: GAEREA DIRECT SUPPORT TO ZEAL & ARDOR
GAEREAis
hitting the shores of United States and Canada once again! The release of
"Hope Shatters" is the perfect combination to mark the start of our US/CA
tour as direct support to Zeal & Ardor.
The run will start on the 23rd of November, across all of USA and Canada and
ends on December 18, 2024. On this run Zetra
will be opening the shows.
Ticket sales are up later this week! A full list of dates and venues down below:
GAEREA NORTH
AMERICAN TOUR WITH
ZEAL & ARDOR
AND ZETRA Arist Presale: July 17 @ 10 am Local Time Local Presale: July 18 @ 10 am Local Time General Ticket Sale: July 19 @ 10 am Local Time
November 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer [TICKETS]
November 24 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge [TICKETS] November 25 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall [TICKETS] November 27 - Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD [TICKETS] November 28 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House [TICKETS] November 29 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic [TICKETS] November 30 - Milvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre [TICKETS] December 2 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue [TICKETS] December 3 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall [TICKETS] December 4 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre [TICKETS] December 6 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre [TICKETS] December 7 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS] December 9 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox [TICKETS] December 10 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre [TICKETS] December 11 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom [TICKETS] December 13 - Berkeley, CA @ US Theatre [TICKETS] December 14 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory [TICKETS] December 15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom [TICKETS] December 17 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk [TICKETS] December 18 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory [TICKETS]
GAEREA - ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM "COMA" AND RELEASE NEW MUSIC VIDEO! [2024.07.16]
Cathartic black metal outfit
GAEREA have
just announced details about their new album "Coma" scheduled to be
released on the 25th of October 2024 via Season of Mist!
GAEREA
arrived shrouded in mystery. The masked sensations emerged from pandemic limbo
with a vision for black metal that was guided not by myths or pagan beliefs but
a purging of emotion. Existential dread still pulses through the Portuguese
band's blood, but their upcoming fourth album signals a shift in psychology.
With "Coma",GAEREA
are no longer strictly a black metal band. Instead, they're breaking to the
forefront of extreme metal. Though their new album was produced by trusted
confidant Miguel Tereso, it broadens the band's signature sound by taking
it in two seemingly opposed directions. There are more moments of intense
beauty, but they only heighten the ensuing blows.
The world may be as hopeless as the album's lead single declares. But with
"Coma", GAEREA have
returned to prove that they are only the band who can guide us into the
darkness.
Music Video Directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz Produced by Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Dark
Funeral, Arch Enemy, etc.)
When Gaerea secretly gave everyone a sneak peek at their new album back in
April, they set the world ablaze. Now, with the first official single off
"Coma", they're ushering in the immediate aftermath. "Hope Shatters"
opens with a lone guitar that wails like a siren before a whirl of blast beats
sucks the world back into the band's vortex.
"Welcome to the urban abyss", their unnamed vocalist pronounces.
"Where dreams turn to rust".
GAEREA aren't
afraid to embrace harsh realities. There's clean singing on Coma, but the
swarming darkness of "Hope Shatters" is only punctured by cries of agony.
Even when the song collapses under its blistering heaviness, the melody hangs
perilously in the air, like a swaying chandelier, before it's smashed to pieces
by hammering bass and concussive drum fills.
Still, perhaps GAEREA have
uncovered a shred of hope from beneath the blackened wreckage. As "Hope
Shatters" meets its end, the band push ahead through the ashes with a
triumphant, headbanging riff. "Enter the maze through the never-ending haze".
With Hope Shatters, GAEREA
deliver an anthem for our dying era.
["Coma" Artwork by Nathan Lorenzana]
"Coma" Tracklist: 1. The Poet's Ballet (7:39) 2. Hope Shatters (4:05) [WATCH] 3. Suspended (5:02) 4. World Ablaze (3:29) [WATCH] 5. Coma (5:19) 6. Wilted Flower (5:50) 7. Reborn (3:51) 8. Shapeshifter (6:24) 9. Unknown (4:24) 10. Kingdom of Thorns (4:45) Total runtime: 50:54
To usher in this new era, GAEREA are
touring behind "Coma" later this year when they come to North America
withZeal & Ardor
and ZETRA.
The band will also be performing "World Ablaze", "Hope Shatters" and other songs
from their new album at several European summer festivals, along with two
special dates with Behemoth and Testament.
GAEREA NORTH
AMERICAN TOUR WITH
ZEAL & ARDOR
AND ZETRA Arist Presale: July 17 @ 10 am Local Time Local Presale: July 18 @ 10 am Local Time General Ticket Sale: July 19 @ 10 am Local Time
November 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer [TICKETS]
November 24 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge [TICKETS] November 25 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall [TICKETS] November 27 - Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD [TICKETS] November 28 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House [TICKETS] November 29 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic [TICKETS] November 30 - Milvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre [TICKETS] December 2 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue [TICKETS] December 3 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall [TICKETS] December 4 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre [TICKETS] December 6 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre [TICKETS] December 7 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS] December 9 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox [TICKETS] December 10 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre [TICKETS] December 11 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom [TICKETS] December 13 - Berkeley, CA @ US Theatre [TICKETS] December 14 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory [TICKETS] December 15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom [TICKETS] December 17 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk [TICKETS] December 18 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory [TICKETS]
GAEREA WITH
BEHEMOTH AND
TESTAMENT: July 21 - Warsaw, PL @ Progresja Summer Stage July 23 - Kosice, SK @ Kulturapark
ADDITIONAL GAEREA
EUROPEAN SUMMER DATES: July 20 - Fridek - Mistek, CZ @ Dark Session Fest July 25 - Ljubljana, SI @ Tolminator August 1 - Rasnov, ROU @ Rockstadt Extreme Fest August 8 - Kotka, FI @ Dark River Festival August 30 - Volos, GR @ Golden R Festival
Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the performers of GAEREA
deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging
from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the dark horde
remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP
and three albums to their name, GAEREA has
rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the
underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding
black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many
devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence
of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers certainly grew.
GAEREA met a
challenge when releasing their second album during the pandemic, the aptly
titled Limbo, to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found
the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the
perfect breeding ground for further creation and making.
Sizzling with ambition from day one, GAEREA may
present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth
is they have not remained changeless.
As their previous album name Mirage suggests, the inability to trust what
our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central
themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or
anti-religious tropes, GAEREA
instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering.
Just two years since Mirage was released, GAEREA is
here, erupting with intensity, casting forth black ashes over the world yet
again.
Their latest release, Coma, has finally surfaced, marking a pivotal
shift. From this point forward, everything changes. It's time for GAEREA to
bridge the gap between underground metal and the elevated realm they've
attained. With Coma, GAEREA
emerges from the underground scene, ascending towards a permanently lasting
position at the head of the table.
An emotional gateway to a dark black metal scene, a guide to salvation, pain,
despair and letting go. Moving up, into the blackness that is above. GAEREA is the
answer, the only answer.
Within "Coma's" ten tracks lies an individual narrative, each with its
own tale to unveil. Collectively, they blend nuances of aggression, tranquility,
solitude, and fervor.
Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between caustic and
clarity, GAEREA yet
again admit their loyalty to producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod
Recordings for the production of Coma. Together they created the
birth of "Coma", the new era for metal mankind. Distinguishing themselves
ever more so, the Vortex handpicked their artist Nathan Lorenzana with a
clear assignment to create their mesmerizing cover artwork. Months of hand
drawing the image with a ballpen lead to this masterpiece which dipped his name
into ‘Coma’.
The beauty of GAEREA lies
in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity
and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of Mirage,
or in the lustrous textures of Coma, GAEREA is
building a mighty edifice of metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of
black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, GAEREA is
leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and
power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.
NeKronos Promotion is Proud to present the band of the NeKroWeek, they are
GAEREA (Portugal) an intense cathartic black metal experience. This is an
impressive band that unleashes some of the most sickening
dark and sinister black metal we have heard in years! A mind-blowing band that
crafts mysterious and rebellious black metal art!
Show your support and share this info to all your metal brotherhood if you like what you have heard!
The band comments:""World Ablaze" tells a story of a man who
has lived all his life inside a cage, knowing one day he will be set free and
experience the world with its true colours.
Unfortunately he also knows that day will be his last hours alive. It is a song
about desire, hope and freedom. A dance between life and death, hope and
despair."
The video was recorded by the great Grupa13,
distinguished for working with giants like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Dark Funeral.
Formats:
CD Digipak
CD Digibook
2x 12" Gatefold (Black) 2x 12" Gatefold (Dracula / limited to 300) 2x 12" Gatefold (White / limited to 500) 2x 12" Gatefold (Gold / limited to 700)
GAEREA BIOGRAPHY: Style: Cathartic Black Metal
Something rises in the bleak and blackened skies of society as we know it.
Vortex community GAEREA are
about to bestow their Undying Sigil to the masses, with their brand-new full
length ‘Limbo’!
GAEREA is a
black metal quintet from Portugal. Emerging in the beginning of 2016, the band
released their first (self-titled) EP on November 11, 2016 through
Everlasting Spew Records. The EP received many praises from the worldwide
press, and it was not long before the first full length "Unsettling Whispers"
(2018) was presented.
With that, GAEREAhad
the pleasure to perform and tour festivals in Europe and China, including
performances with Jupiterian in April 2019 and a headlining Chinese tour
in May 2019. The band already performed at festivals like SWR Barroselas
Metalfest (PT), De Mortem et Diabolum (DE), Throne Fest (BE),
Frantic Fest (IT), Eresia Metal Fest (IT), Amplifest (PT)
and many more. During the fall of 2019, the band did an extensive tour with
label mates NUMENOREAN under the Doomstar Bookings wing throughout
Europe.
Are you finally ready for the tale of the Fallen Society and the journey to the
vast Void, the only good in Life? Let us begin then. In the first hopeless
circle, on too great and Undeniable Nothingness. WE ARE GAEREA.
- - -
"MIRAGE":
Style: Cathartic Black Metal
Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the men of
GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and
beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the
Portuguese horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme
metal. With an EP and two albums to their name,
GAEREA has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands
toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe
of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective
longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With
the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers are sure to grow.
Underground metal itself is a strange and cyclical beast. Trends come and trends
go. But at no point in the genre’s history have we borne witness to what
happened to the world in 2020.
GAEREA met this challenge by releasing their second album, the aptly
titled "Limbo", to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found
the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the
perfect breeding ground for further creation and making. As the troupe’s main
songwriter elaborates, "I lost two precious years of my life, years that I
would rather have spent touring and growing as an artist. But they were crucial
for us, these years, because not too many bands stayed relevant and productive.
The pandemic gave us the time to make the best release we could. All the
promo-shoots, interviews, videos, we all had time to prepare for everything.
Mirage was the product of a sudden inspiration. The basic parts were written
over about two weeks."
Such a stunning admission goes to show that art is fickle, and the artist is
merely a vessel through which the sweet sorcery we call music may flow. It can
mute itself to frustrating silence – or it can explode into being regardless of
all consideration. For this band on the rise, it is most certainly the latter.
Sizzling with ambition from day one,
GAEREA may present one unique face to their audience, masked and
enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless. "We are not
the same band who recorded Limbo," he insists. "We are more eager
to take on the world. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that nothing is
certain."
This lack of certainty plays heavily into newest creation Mirage. As its
name suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be
construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art
to mythological references or anti-religious tropes,
GAEREA instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation
and suffering. "The concept, the subject, of each song is everyone, you, me .
. . if people were alone together in Limbo, in Mirage they are truly alone.
Nobody is truly real until they are alone."
If existential dread could be turned into sound,
GAEREA have carved their own philosophical path through its stygian
tunnels. It isn’t Satan, demons, death, or even suicide that is waiting for us
there. "What if people finally reached their goal," he posits, "to end
their suffering, and instead of dying they find themselves in a new reality,
lost in a big city they were once a part of – they don’t know if anyone else is
still alive. They are alone inside their own world." This theme of being
alone in a world full of familiar scenes, unable to end things and unable to
reach anyone else, might well terrify the listener more effectively than any
glimpse into the imagined hellscapes of our nightmares. Being isolated in your
own world is the real nightmare, and
GAEREA strum the chords of this horror with nuance and a miserable
grace.
Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between clarity and
causticness,
GAEREA unwaveringly admit their loyalty to countryman and producer
Miguel Tereso of Demigod
Recordings. "Miguel is fantastic," enthuses the band’s primary
composer. "He comes from a brutal death metal background. I thought if this
guy can pull off a punchy, modern, but still authentic production with a slam /
death metal band, I wonder what he can do with a band like Demigod
Recordings. He has a vision for a sound, and that is what I really like.
He is not a black metal fan, but it’s this very external set of ears and eyes
from a guy who really knows his craft, and he brings all of that to our sound."
The fruits of this union are quite evident, as the turbulent moods of the title
track are so wonderfully tossed between tension-building moments, and the
explosive payoffs which set
GAEREA apart from so many who try but come up short.
Tormented leads and building riffs sit atop some seriously explosive drumming,
waxing and waning, on "Arson," a tempest of moods and one of the album’s
centrepieces. Emotion, at times sounding triumphant in brilliantly wrought
guitar leads, is skewered by vocals that bustle with shattering despair. The
dichotomy is magnificent to behold.
GAEREA’s composer makes no mistake. "I want to hear the throat on the
album, and if we are a vocals-driven band, I don’t want to over-process them
during the recording. Striking that balance is one of the beauties for me in
this record."
In a world that increasingly elevates the shallow and the narcissistic,
GAEREA pursues an artistic struggle of inward isolation, honest
self-examination, and a dogged refusal to bow to the void that awaits. Thus, the
persistence of their shadowed visages, draped in the masks which codify their
anonymity while also creating a reliable extreme metal brand that fans can
appreciate, especially in the live setting. "GAEREA
are truly ourselves when we put these masks on, and we transcend into something
different, and primitive," he asserts. "It still makes total sense, and
this band would not be a band anymore if we ever dropped the masks."
As
GAEREA prepares the release of Mirage, the world has resumed
functioning, and as it lurches onward into its bleak future, one could stipulate
that the pressure may be on to continue its rise amid the clamor of this renewal
of activity. Does this challenge intimidate
GAEREA? "We want to do better, but I don’t feel any pressure because
we are in very good hands with the people we work with. We are building a strong
team that really cares for us, stage-wise, promotional-wise, website and
sales-wise. We are building a very structured confident teams that aims for the
same goals we do. What I truly care about is continuing our ever-growing concept
of the band
GAEREA, and not becoming sterile, and I would not want people to be
unaffected by our music. In the end we’re trying to express something within
ourselves, and I don’t want it to be too complicated."
The beauty of
GAEREA lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid
tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural
dynamite of their self-titled EP, or in the lustrous textures of Mirage,
GAEREA is building a mighty edifice of underground metal. With talons
dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human
suffering,
GAEREA is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those
who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take
heed.
Cathartic black metal outfit
GAEREA have
just released their new single and music video "World Ablaze".
The band comments:""World Ablaze" tells a story of a man who
has lived all his life inside a cage, knowing one day he will be set free and
experience the world with its true colours.
Unfortunately he also knows that day will be his last hours alive. It is a song
about desire, hope and freedom. A dance between life and death, hope and
despair."
The video was recorded by the great Grupa13,
distinguished for working with giants like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Dark Funeral.
May 11: Bornstedt, DE @ Dark Troll Fest May 16: Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend May 17: Leipzig, DE @ Wave Gothic Festival May 18: Warsaw, PL @ Proxima May 19: Cracow, PL @ Kamienna12 May 20: Budapest, HU @Analog May 21: Vienna, AUST @ Arena May 22: Munich, DE @ Feierwerk May 23: Parma, IT @ Campus May 24: Luzern, CH @ Schuur May 25: Hollandveen , NL@ Graveland Festival May 26: Brugge, BE @ Cactus May 28: Limerick, IRE @ Dolans Warehouse May 29: Dublin, IRE @ Opium May 30: Bristol, ENG@ The Fleece May 31: London, ENG @ Earth June 1: Glasgow, SCT @ The Garage June 2: Scarborough, ENG @ Fortress Festival June 4: Bochum, DE @ Zeche June 5: Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom June 6: Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan June 7: Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
