AUSTERE have announced the “December Severance” headlining tour with five dates in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. The Australians will be joined by French black metal act OMEGAETERNUM for most shows – except at the Wintermelodei festival in Münster, Germany on December 7.
AUSTERE comment: “Following the release of our new album ‘The Stillness of Dissolution’, we are returning to Europe for the ‘December Severence’ tour joined by Omegaeternum”, guitarist and vocalist Mitchell Keepin writes. “Don’t miss this opportunity to see us. Who knows when there will be another chance.”
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AUSTERE live December 2025
03 DEC 2025 Arnhem (NL) Willemeen
04 DEC 2025 Nürnberg (DE) Z-Bau
05 DEC 2025 Berlin (DE) De Mortem Et Diabolum
06 DEC 2025 Münster (DE) Wintermelodei
07 DEC 2025 Kortrijk (BE) DVG
The fifth album of the Australian black metal duo, “The Stillness of Dissolution“, was released on June 6, 2025.
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
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 by Graven Graphics
Links
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www.instagram.com/official_austere
