AUSTERE will embark on an extensive European tour in spring 2025. The Australians will hit the roads partly in support of their current album “Beneath the Threshold”. The fourth full-length of the black metal duo from Wollongong in New South Wales was released on April 5, 2024. AUSTERE will also perform new material as the band’s next album is already in the making.
AUSTERE comment: “We will return to Europe in March and April 2025 for our most extensive tour to date”, drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist Tim Yatras writes. “We will present a revamped line-up, a new setlist, and brand new songs. This means, it is not a tour to miss!”
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AUSTERE “Dissolution Tour 2025”
28 MAR 2025 Mont de Coeuve (CH) Witch’s Hollow Festival
29 MAR 2025 Paris (FR) Le Java
30 MAR 2025 Antwerpen (BE) Samhain Fest
31 MAR 2025 Bochum (DE) Die Trompete
02 APR 2025 Bordeaux (FR) Salem
03 APR 2025 Bilbao (ES) Mytho
08 APR 2025 Erfurt (DE) From Hell
09 APR 2025 Erba (IT) Centrale Rock
10 APR 2025 Praha (CZ) Modra Vopice
11 APR 2025 Wien (AU) Escape
12 APR 2025 Budapest (HU) Robot
13 APR 2025 Košice (SK) Collosseum
20 APR 2025 München (DE) Dark Easter Metal Meeting
AUSTERE will tour in support of the current album “Beneath the Threshold”.
Tracklist
1. Thrall
2. The Sunset of Life
3. Faded Ghost
4. Cold Cerecloth
5. Words Unspoken
6. Of Severance
“Beneath the Threshold” represents AUSTERE in the here and now. With their fourth full-length the Australians have taken a long step into the present and embrace their musical future in a way that might have been expected after a 13-year hiatus.
When their voluntary break ended with the release of “Corrosion of Hearts” in 2023, the duo consisting of Mitchell Keepin and Tim Yatras returned with a more mature and defined version of their own particular style of black metal, which reflected both their greater experience and evolution as artists. Both musicians had been active in other bands during the hiatus of AUSTERE.
While “Corrosion of Hearts” formed the bridge between the band’s musical history and the artists’ fresh vision, “Beneath the Threshold” takes a leap of expression. AUSTERE‘s sonic heritage is still alive. Even though their roots in early Norse black metal and its depressive Scandinavian offspring continue to shine through, it is also apparent that the Australians have audibly strengthened their emotional expressiveness and previous blackgaze leanings beyond the point where a stylistic shift towards the latter needs to be diagnosed.
On “Beneath the Threshold”, AUSTERE offer more hooks and melodic harmonies to complement the multi-layered, harsh and dreamlike guitar textures expertly woven by Keepin with the aid of Yatras’ emotive drumming. This development is emphasised by a suitable production that lets each of the elements shine and does not try to blur the riffs.
AUSTERE evolved out of a solo-project run by multi-instrumentalist and singer Desolate alias Mitchell Keepin who joined forces with drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist Sorrow aka Tim Yatras in 2005. Signature frost-bitten guitars, alongside high-pitched screams and wails marked AUSTERE‘s debut album “Withering Illusions and Desolation” (2007) as well as the two split-releases “Only the Wind Remembers / Ending the Circle of Life” (with LYRINX, 2008) and “Bleak…” (with ISOLATION, 2008), which AUSTERE reissued partly on the EP “Only the Wind Remembers” (2008). The sophomore album “To Lay like Old Ashes” followed in 2009 and still featured a raw sound but with a refined production.
The same year, AUSTERE entered a voluntary hiatus until activities were resumed in 2021. During their absence the number of followers continued to grow through word of mouth.
For AUSTERE the stars under the Southern Cross have newly aligned and the harsh majestic beauty of “Beneath the Threshold” calls out to everyone to raise their eyes up to the night sky around the globe and behold the finally unleashed Australian band in its full musical glory.
Release date: April 5, 2024
Label: Lupus Lounge
Style: Darkgaze
Line-up
Mitchell Keepin – guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals
Tim Yatras – drums, keyboards, vocals
Recorded & mixed by Austere at Équinoxe Studios, Wollongong, Australia
Produced & engineered by Austere
Additional vocals recorded by Austere at at Stranded Recording Studio
Mastered by Austere at Trollhouse Audio
Artwork & layout by Łukasz Jazsak
Links
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www.instagram.com/official_austere