GAEREA
COUNTRY: PORTUGAL
GENRE: EXTREME METAL
[ Photo by © Chantik Photography ]
GAEREA - RELEASES "COMA" MUSIC VIDEO!
[2024.11.13]
Extreme metal outfit
GAEREA have
just released their new music video for the title track "Coma" from their new album.
"Coma" is already out via
Season of Mist!
GAEREA are
waking into a new era. The Portuguese masked sensations are no longer strictly a
black metal band. With "Coma", they've surfaced to the top of extreme
metal. Their critically acclaimed new album racked up more than 1 million
streams within 24 hours of landing on Spotify.
"Coma, the quintet's fourth full-length, not only finds them sharpening their
craft", FLOOD gushes, "but it also makes a strong claim as 2024's
best metal record, regardless of subgenre".
To lay claim over their new domain, later this month,
GAEREA are
touring North America with Zeal & Ardor and Zetra. Today, the band
are treating the vortex societies in the U.S. and Canada with a tantalizing
glimpse of their striking live performance. The new video for "Coma"
includes never-before-seen footage from this year's treks to China and Taiwan,
though the title track off their new album also shows just how far
GAEREA have
come.
Watch the video for "Coma":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uq-VAlJAk
Though produced by their trusted confident Miguel Tereso, "Coma"
broadens
GAEREA's signature sound by taking it in two seemingly opposed
directions. The title track is one of the heavier songs on the whole album.
Concussive drum fills open the floodgates for a venomous groove that shakes its
scales like a dragon. But its tortured screams and piercing melodies reveal a
mysterious phantom pain.
"This is the song that explains the whole record, basically", the band's
unnamed vocalist told Apple Music. "I was thinking about how to write a song
about someone in a coma, but they're still conscious of it. Because if there's
no consciousness, there won't be a song. So, this is a bit like waking up in a
dark room and seeing the whole word around you, but you can't really figure out
if it's reality, if it's memories, if it's your imagination, or just your lost
dreams in life. It deals with that anxiety of trying to figure out if you're
really here or not, or if this is the afterlife - and whatever the afterlife
might look like".
Next year,
GAEREA are
taking Coma on their first headlining tour of Europe. Catch them in April in
Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Gaerea European Headlining Tour 2025:
16 Apr: Osnabrück, DE @ Bastard Club
17 Apr: Aalborg, DK @ 1000Fryd
18 Apr: Oslo, NO @ Inferno Festival
19 Apr: Stockholm, SE @ Kollektivet Livet
20 Apr: Copenhagen, DK @ BETA
22 Apr: Hamburg, DE @ Headcrash
23 Apr: Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
24 Apr: Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
25 Apr: Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
26 Apr: Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadmitte
27 Apr: Frankfurt, DE @ Das Bett
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) [WATCH]
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) [WATCH]
10. Kingdom of Thorns (4:45)
Total runtime: 50:54
More to Praise "Coma":
"...their most personal and intimate album yet" - Apple Music
"Coma finds Gaerea at the top of its game" - Angry Metal Guy
"Albums like Coma are career-shifting within an artist's catalogue" - No Clean Singing
"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
"The only question left is whether or not the masks retain their anonymity with all of the attention they will get after Coma" - Everything is Noise
"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
[ Photo by © Chantik Photography ]
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