Earthtone9 Announce First Album In Over A Decade 'In Resonance Nexus'
Thursday, 21 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Andy Ford
Earthtone9 have returned with details of their first album in 11 years.
Produced by Lewis Johns, 'In Resonance Nexus' will arrive through their new label home Candlelight Records on June 21, following up 2013's 'IV'. Commenting on the new deal, the band said:
"Candlelight Records feels like the perfect home for us. They’ve released so many earthshaking albums, and to be part of that history is both thrilling and a privilege. It’s magic to continue the next chapter of et9 working with trusted comrades, and we couldn't be more excited."
On the record, vocalist Karl Middleton commented: "'In Resonance Nexus', as a title, is saying that we’ve found the core and the essence of the band again. We were digging deep to find common musical ground, and between Joe and Owen, and I, it really felt like that there was a resonance there. It feels like we've landed on a really legitimate, 21st century version of the band. We were asking, ‘Why are we doing this?’ and having a very authentic answer."
He added: "Lewis is unbelievable, super creative, super enthusiastic. We were attracted to the stuff he’s done with bands like Employed To Serve, Svalbard and Rolo Tomassi. He has a style, but you can also tell in everything he does that he enhances the vision of the band, rather than just imposing his thing. He was incredible in bringing the intensity and drive back into earthtone9."
Alongside the news, the British metallers have shared the driving, aggressive rager, Oceanic Drift, which comes with a video filmed by Shaun Hodson at Loki Films.
On the new track, Middleton explained: "I was thinking about the Joker movie, and the idea of him being the unreliable witness. So it just seemed like a really funny opening line, ‘what you see is what you get,’ because that's never been the case. Also, the idea of oceanic drift is, in geological time, an incredibly slow process. That’s partially a reflection on how our last record was over a decade ago, the record before that was 12 years before that, so it's just these incredibly slow moving things."
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