UK progressive metal force Exist Immortal have announced their long-awaited new EP, “Afterglow,” out September 11th via Seek & Strike. To mark the announcement, the band have shared the EP’s title track alongside a striking new video. Watch it below.
For Exist Immortal, “Afterglow” marks the beginning of a new chapter – a record shaped by upheaval and personal struggle that reflects where the band are now, with a renewed sense of purpose moving forward.
“The opening statement and the most complete thing we’ve made to date,” the band say of the title track. “It sets the tone for everything the EP is about, facing the wreckage head-on and choosing to rebuild against all odds. If you want to know where we are as a band right now, start here.”
For more than a decade, the South East England outfit have built a reputation as one of the UK’s most distinctive progressive metal acts, fusing crushing metalcore, intricate technicality, soaring melodies and contemporary pop sensibilities into a sound that refuses to sit neatly within genre boundaries. That evolution reaches a new level on “Afterglow,” written during a turbulent period that saw the band weather a line-up change, personal and health challenges, and a stretch when their future was genuinely uncertain.
“Afterglow is the sound of us finding out what this band actually is,” they explain. “We wrote and rebuilt it through a period of real upheaval, a lineup change, personal challenges, health challenges and a stretch that tested whether we’d keep going at all. Somehow it came out the most assured, most deliberate thing we’ve ever made.”
The result is Exist Immortal at their most focused – colder, heavier and more deliberate than its predecessors, pairing technical precision with huge melodic hooks and expansive atmosphere while every riff and arrangement serves a clear purpose. Away from the studio, the band have earned a formidable international reputation through relentless touring across Europe, Asia and the Americas, with appearances at Download Festival, Bloodstock Open Air, MetalDays, Euroblast and Complexity Fest, and shared stages with the likes of SikTh, Textures, LANDMVRKS and Cynic.
Listen to “Afterglow” here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0msR4mo0MeBoU1Qj8XjpKj
“Afterglow” EP Tracklist:
- Something, Somewhere
- Fail To Find
- Afterglow
- Stuck In Motion
- Shadow Work
