Gaerea Take Asia by Storm in New Video for “Coma”
Touring North America with Zeal & Ardor and Zetra
New album featured by Decibel, Outburn, FLOOD, New Noise and Apple Music
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.
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”.
Gaerea North American Tour 2024 with Zeal & Ardorand ZETRA
November 23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer [TICKETS]
November 24 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge [TICKETS]
November 25 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall [TICKETS]
November 27 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD [TICKETS]
November 28 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House [TICKETS]
November 29 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic [TICKETS]
November 30 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre [TICKETS]
December 2 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue [TICKETS]
December 3 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall [TICKETS]
December 4 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theatre [TICKETS]
December 6 – Engelwood, CO @ Gothic Theatre [TICKETS]
December 7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS]
December 9 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox [TICKETS]
December 10 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre [TICKETS]
December 11 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom [TICKETS]
December 13 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre [TICKETS]
December 14 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory [TICKETS]
December 15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom [TICKETS]
December 17 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk [TICKETS]
December 18 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at The Factory [TICKETS]
The night before their first show, Gaerea are hosting a Meet & Greet at Tattooed Mom. The band will pop into the South Philly staple to sign autographs and chat with fans during a live Q&A session. This event is free and open to the public, but it’s the only pop-up event that Gaerea are hosting on this tour. If you’re in Philadelphia, don’t miss the chance to grab your official Coma merch before everyone else!
Gaerea Pop-Up Merch Store + Meet & Greet
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 pm Eastern Time
Location: Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
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]
Tracklist1. 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
Artwork by Nathan Lorenzana
Country: Portugal
Style: Extreme Metal
Behind black shrouds of obscurity and desolation, the performers of GAEREA deliver their odes in cascading maelstroms of aggression and beauty. Emerging from the age of pandemic to whatever awaits humanity next, the dark horde remains on the frontlines of the next generation of extreme metal. With an EP and three albums to their name, Gaerea has rapidly distinguished themselves from the thousands of bands toiling away in the underground. Brewing their cauldron of sound from a recipe of pounding black-metal blast mixed with a touch of harrowed, reflective longing, many devotees of the darkened arts have flocked to their banner. With the emergence of third full-length album Mirage, those numbers certainly grew.
Gaerea met a challenge when releasing their second album during the pandemic, the aptly titled Limbo, to excellent world reception. In the meantime, they found the total suspension of interactive life as it was previously known to be the perfect breeding ground for further creation and making.
Sizzling with ambition from day one, Gaerea may present one unique face to their audience, masked and enshrouded, but the truth is they have not remained changeless.
As their previous album name Mirage suggests, the inability to trust what our senses are telling us could be construed as one of the album’s central themes. Rather than constrict their art to mythological references or anti-religious tropes, Gaerea instead plumb the depths of the human experiences of isolation and suffering.
Just two years since Mirage was released, Gaerea is here, erupting with intensity, casting forth black ashes over the world yet again.
Their latest release, Coma, has finally surfaced, marking a pivotal shift. From this point forward, everything changes. It’s time for Gaerea to bridge the gap between underground metal and the elevated realm they’ve attained. With Coma, Gaerea emerges from the underground scene, ascending towards a permanently lasting position at the head of the table.
An emotional gateway to a dark black metal scene, a guide to salvation, pain, despair and letting go. Moving up, into the blackness that is above. Gaerea is the answer, the only answer.
Within ‘Coma’s’ ten tracks lies an individual narrative, each with its own tale to unveil. Collectively, they blend nuances of aggression, tranquility, solitude, and fervor.
Boasting a superior production that threads the needle between caustic and clarity, Gaerea yet again admit their loyalty to producer Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings for the production of Coma. Together they created the birth of ‘Coma’, the new era for metal mankind. Distinguishing themselves ever more so, the Vortex handpicked their artist Nathan Lorenzana with a clear assignment to create their mesmerizing cover artwork. Months of hand drawing the image with a ballpen lead to this masterpiece which dipped his name into ‘Coma’.
The beauty of Gaerea lies in the directness and simplicity found within their florid tapestry of extremity and aggression. Whether it is in the less-polished aural dynamite of Mirage, or in the lustrous textures of Coma, Gaerea is building a mighty edifice of metal. With talons dipped in the inky blood of black metal and scraped across the flesh of human suffering, Gaerea is leading a charge into the future of darkness, and all those who find beauty and power in the dark side of existence would do well to take heed.
Recording Studio
Demigod Studios at Redbox Studios
Production Credits
Produced by Gaerea
Recorded by Miguel Tereso at Redbox Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Miguel Tereso at Demigod Studios
Artwork
Nathan Lorenzana
Photography
Chantik Photography
Biography
Gaerea
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