Founded in Brussels in 1998, the band Emptiness emerged from Black and Death Metal, and then quickly moved beyond genre constraints, focusing on “experimentation, atmosphere and transformation.”

More recently, with Not For Music (2017), the band departed entirely from Metal frameworks, incorporating elements of Goth, Industrial and Post-Punk. Vide (2021) marked their most radical shift: a stripped, entirely distortion-free work, recorded in isolation and sung in French, reflecting “states of confinement and perceptual dislocation.”

Now they will be releasing Nowhere Speaks, their 7th album, on July 7th, 2026, via Season Mist. The single and video for “Clash of Forces” is out now.

From early in their career, has worked this way: Jérémie Bézier handling Production across all its dimensions, and Olivier J.L.W. directing the visual work in its entirety. Nowhere Speaks continues that closed circuit, as it always has been.

With Nowhere Speaks, developed over an extended period and recorded live in the studio, the band “returns to density and physicality” while continuing its pattern of transformation. Emptiness exists as something that “does not move in straight lines: each work unfolds from the last, without fixed beginning or end.”