AUSTERE Drop New Single ‘Redolent Foulness’

AUSTERE premiere new track ‘Redolent Foulness‘
taken from the forthcoming album “The Stillness of Dissolution“

AUSTERE release the relentless new track ‘Redolent Foulness‘, which is carried by surprisingly clean vocals, as the next advance single taken from the black & dark metal duo‘s forthcoming new album “The Stillness of Dissolution“. The band from Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia will unleash their fifth full-length on June 6, 2025. 

AUSTERE comment: “We wrote ‘Redolent Foulness’ as the final song for the album, and it explores some new musical territory for Austere”, drummer and vocalist Tim Yatras writes on behalf of the duo. “The song’s lyrics deal with the running of time, paired with a realisation of life’s insignificance. They convey the feeling that time is short, while being trapped by one’s very own existence at the same time.”

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

Formats
“The Stillness of Dissolution” is available as a Digipak CD, and as a marbled orange & black vinyl LP, and on black vinyl.

Shop
http://lnk.spkr.media/austere-dissolution

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