Cathartic black metallers GAEREA release new single & music video 'Mirage'
Photo Credit: Joao Fitas
Cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA have released their new single 'Mirage', taken from the band's forthcoming album Mirage, set for release on the 23rd September via Season of Mist.
The group's new single is accompanied by a tenebrous new video, which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/PJC2CM4Z7Oo
Pre-order Mirage here: https://orcd.co/gaerea-mirage
GAEREA comment on the new offering: “The third single for the upcoming GAEREA album is finally upon us. The song is called 'Mirage' and serves as the bleeding, burning torch which also names this record. It represents a battle between high and low, reality and perception and solitude vs freedom. This is GAEREA in its purest form, where the body language dictates the increasing catharsis of one of the highest and important monuments within this album.”
'Mirage' is the third track to be released from the new album, following previous singles, 'Salve' and 'Mantle'. Assuming life is but a walking shadow, the song explores the act of leveraging the great disadvantages of consciousness of one's experiments. 'Mirage' is nothing but a prototype and painful dream where the necessary sufferings of being alive shall create the unnecessary fear of our demise.
Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, 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.
Mirage, as its name suggests, describes the inability to trust what our senses are telling us and this 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.”
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. The cover artwork for Mirage was created by the SAROS Collective.
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.
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GAEREA previously announced new European tourdates, together with label mates GAAHLS WYRD and SAOR. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.
GAEREA 2022
21 Sep 22 Riga (LV) NOASS
22 Sep 22 Tallin (EE) Sveta Baar
23 Sep 22 Helsinki (FI) On the Rocks
GAEREA
+Gaahls Wyrd +Saor +Winterfylleth
30 Sep 22 Haarlem (NL) Patronaat
01 Oct 22 Arlon (BE) Léntrepot
02 Oct 22 Cologne (DE) Club Volta
03 Oct 22 Berlin (DE) Holle 44
05 Oct 22 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06 Oct 22 Krakow (PL) Hol
07 Oct 22 Prague (CZ) Futurum
08 Oct 22 Vienna (AT) Vienna Metal Meeting
09 Oct 22 Budapest (HU) Instant
11 Oct 22 Milan (IT) Slaughter Club
12 Oct 22 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir
13 Oct 22 Lyon (FR) CCO Villeurbanne
14 Oct 22 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
15 Oct 22 Madrid (ES) Story Live
16 Oct 22 Toulouse (FR) Le Rex
17 Oct 22 Paris (FR) Petit Bain
19 Oct 22 London (UK) The Garage
20 Oct 22 Antwerp (BE) Zappa
22 Oct 22 Essen (DE) Turock
24 Oct 22 Munich (DE) Backstage Halle
25 Oct 22 Frankfurt (DE) Das Bett
26 Oct 22 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
27 Oct 22 Hamburg (DE) Logo
28 Oct 22 Copenhagen (DK) Vega
29 Oct 22 Gothenburg (SE) Pustervik
30 Oct 22 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan
