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News : Melbourne’s Encircling Sea announce new album and tour dates

By on February 12, 2018

Melbourne’s Encircling Sea is set to release their fourth studio album, Hearken on Friday, 6th April through EVP Recordings. The post-black metal three-piece have also confirmed national tour dates to coincide with the new release. See below for full tour dates.

Fans can stream and purchase the band’s previous release via the band’s official Bandcamp page.

Hearken is the fourth full-length record from Australian outfit Encircling Sea. Since 2009 the band has toiled deeply within Melbourne and various regional surrounds. Possessing a creative sensibility that merges the hustle of industrialised civilization with the primitive beauty of nature, words such as sludge, black, death, doom, and post become lost within the band’s own enveloping abyss. To Hearken is to pay attention – in this case to those who came before us – to their failures, triumphs, and the ritualistic junctures that defined the spiritual growth of humanity. The roots run deeply from both the trees into the earth, and from man into the fading pages of history.

The first single will premiere this week through respected extreme metal webzine Invisible Oranges, alongside album pre-orders.

Hearken is available worldwide on digital and double LP formats, Friday April 6 through EVP Recordings.

Friday April 13 – The Bald Faced Stag, Sydney
w/ Norse, Somnium Nox, Ploughshare, Oar

Saturday April 14 – Crowbar, Brisbane
w/ Shackles, YLVA, Siberian Hell Sounds, Mosquito, Sam Haven

Saturday May 5 – Direct Underground Fest, Sydney
w/ Ihsahn, Belphegor, Revocation, Diocletian, Wiegedood  

Sunday May 6 – Direct Underground Fest, Melbourne
w/ Ihsahn, Belphegor, Revocation, Diocletian, Wiegedood 

For more information, click here to enter the band’s official Facebook page.

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