In the wake of announcing their new album and launching the first advance single, AUSTERE are kicking off the previously announced European tour joined by LUNAR TOMBFIELDS at the Witch’s Hollow Festival in the Swiss town of Mont de Coeuve tomorrow, on Friday, March 28.
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With LUNAR TOMBFIELDS
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
05 APR 2025 Hamburg (DE) Hafenklang
06 APR 2025 Dresden (DE) Club Novitatis
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
16 APR 2025 Warszawa (PL) Chimury
17 APR 2025 Katowice (PL) Piaty Dom
18 APR 2025 Torun (PL) Post Mortem Fest
20 APR 2025 München (DE) Dark Easter Metal Meeting
AUSTERE commented: “The first single, ‘Time Awry’ was the second song written for ‘The Stillness of Dissolution’, our forthcoming new album”, guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalistMitchell Keepin explained on behalf of the duo. “The first few songs written for the album tend to have a slightly more stripped back ‘rock’ sound than those written later, and that is on display here. Lyrically, it is presented from the viewpoint of a betrayed and solemn soul – a man with a heightened awareness of the inescapable running of time and seeking to accelerate that process.”
Credit
Video by D. Jenkins
Tracklist
1. Dissolved Exile
2. Time Awry
3. Redolent Foulness
4. The Downfall
5. Rusted Veins
6. Storm within My Heart
With their fifth album “The Stillness of Dissolution”, AUSTERE embark on a dark journey that leads through the abyss of time, the inevitable return of order to chaos into the black void. In the words of the poet: everything that arises is worth that it perishes.
Following on the heels of “Beneath the Threshold” (2024) that was a defining statement of the musical present and the embrace of their musical future by the Australian duo after their 13-year hiatus and the bridging album “Corrosion of Hearts” (2023). The new album brings an overall blacker feel to their sound. This slight change of course does not constitute an easy nostalgic return to the old days as AUSTERE remain within the framework of the more mature and defined version of their particular style of depressive black metal, which reflects their greater experience and evolution as artists.
As always before, AUSTERE‘s sonic heritage remains alive on “The Stillness of Dissolution”. Their roots in early Norse black metal and its depressive Scandinavian offspring remain clearly audible. This also applies to their more recent evolution into emotive expressiveness and added blackgaze leanings.
AUSTERE arose from 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.
At this point in time, both musicians decided to focus on other projects and AUSTERE went into hibernation until the duo reformed in 2021. The number of followers had only grown during their absence through word of mouth.
AUSTERE are back in black with “The Stillness of Dissolution”, yet the Australians also keep all the subtle shades of grey that turn the ongoing evolution of their music into a thrilling experience of new sonic spaces of dark matter.
Band: Austere
Album title: The Stillness of Dissolution
Release date: June 6, 2025
Label: Prophecy Productions
Style: Dark Metal
Review Impact Date: May 5, 2025
Line-up
Mitchell Keepin – guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals
Tim Yatras – drums, keyboards, vocals
Recorded & engineered by Austere at Équinoxe Studios, Wollongong (AU)
Mixed by Austere at Équinoxe Studios, Wollongong (AU)
Mastered by Tim Yatras at Équinoxe Studios, Wollongong (AU)
Artwork by Mitchell Keepin
Layout Łukasz Jazsak
Links
www.facebook.com/OfficialAustere
www.instagram.com/official_austere