[Cover photo credit to Scream Dudes]

Progressive Deathgaze band Kardashev have announced new full-length album Alunea set for release on April 25th, 2025 on Metal Blade Records. The single “Reunion” is out now.

Since they are a forerunner of “Deathgaze”, the band’s drummer Sean Lang explains:

Words you could use to describe our music are ‘atmospheric, progressive, emotional, dynamic, and contrast. Our music attempts to sonically portray the emotions of anger and sorrow which creates a palpable but natural dynamic contrast.

Regarding their lyrics, Mark Garrett says:

I’ve loved tinkering with languages since I was a little kid. I’m not an expert when it comes to constructed languages, often referred to as ‘conlangs,’ but I find language to be a really interesting aspect of humanity.

I was dabbling in the beginnings of the language of Alunea years before we added it to our record The Almanac. I would sit at my desk at work – a call center at the time – and make up interesting grammatical rules to pass the time. One of my favorites was having the length of a vowel add plurality to a word. I didn’t create that concept, but it was fun to play with. Years later when Nico and our previous bassist suggested I bring my interest in conlangs to our music, the vowel length concept was what I started with. It all grew from there.

Alunea is a direct sequel to the events of The Almanac and picks up right where the song “Beyond Sun And Moon” leaves off.

The LP’s first single, “Reunion,” out now, is an allegory for hope.

Garrett adds:

‘Reunion’ is part of the imaginary mythology we have written for our far-off descendants. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of years ago, our offspring will have their own stories of how life and society came to be. ‘Reunion’ tells a chapter in this mythology in which two pivotal figures meet in open air. The main character from The Almanac, who is named Sky-Brother, has traveled across space and time to meet a being created by mankind to form a new civilization on a distant world. The track’s musical DNA is rooted in the sounds of bands like The Contortionist, Cigarettes After Sex, and Fallujah, with intense death metal aggression, whimsical atmospheres drenched in reverb, and a bigger than life uplifting melodies. KARDASHEV likes to think of the melodic story as an allegory for hope.