New album featured by Rock Tribune, Metal Hammer DE, Distorted Sound & Apple Music
“Coma is sheer audial poetry” – New Noise
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://youtu.be/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”.
More praise for 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
Next year, Gaerea are taking Coma on their first headlining tour of Europe. Catch them in April in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
GaereaEuropean Headlining Tour 2025:
16 Apr: Osnabrück, DE @ Bastard Club [TICKETS]
17 Apr: Aalborg, DK @ 1000Fryd [TICKETS]
18 Apr: Oslo, NO @ Inferno Festival [TICKETS]
19 Apr: Stockholm, SE @ Kollektivet Livet [TICKETS]
20 Apr: Copenhagen, DK @ BETA [TICKETS]
22 Apr: Hamburg, DE @ Headcrash [TICKETS]
23 Apr: Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz [TICKETS]
24 Apr: Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia [TICKETS]
25 Apr: Munich, DE @ Kranhalle [TICKETS]
26 Apr: Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadmitte [TICKETS]
27 Apr: Frankfurt, DE @ Das Bett [TICKETS]
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)
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 running time: 50:54
Country: Portugal
Style: Extreme Metal