[Cover photo credit to Shane Mulholland]

Australian Dark Folk/Blackgaze project Suldusk will be releasing their sophomore studio album, Antithesis, on March 1, 2024 via Napalm Records. The band have recently released the single and music video “Crystalline” that significantly ties back to some of their previous work.

The band’s founder Emily Highfield explains:

Crystalline is a sequel track to ‘Nazare’, which is on Lunar Falls, the first SULDUSK album. Nature – its beauty and brutality – is definitely a powerful muse for SULDUSK’s music, and both these tracks are an homage to the power and the solace of the Ocean. Coming from Australia, which is an isolated island, nature here is abundant and always a source of inspiration.

Following their 2019 debut album, Lunar Falls, Anthesis continues where Suldusk left off in creating “a gloomy, magical world”.

While Suldusk started as a one-woman project founded by Emily Highfield, for this upcoming album, she recruited musicians to help “elevate the vision of their acoustic-based music to the level of an intense, powerful and heavy record.” For the first time in Suldusk’s history, there are also male vocal harmonies contributed by Shane Mulholland.

Anthesis was produced and mixed by Troy Mccosker, and was mastered by Thomas “Plec” Johansson (Soilwork, Opeth, Katatonia). The album also features guest appearances of Raphael Weinroth-Browne (Leprous) and Rachelle Harvey on cello.