Germany-based artist Ophelia Sullivan has announced new album The Hunger, which picks up where her previous album, Disposable Identity, left off. However, The Hunger “marks a shift towards greater cohesion in both sound and instrumentation.”

Drawing on Post-Progressive, Progressive Metal, Post-Rock, and Trip-Hop Sullivan creates a dark sonic landscape, informed by a background in electronic music. The new album was recorded with a mix of returning and new collaborators, including Fenix Gayed of Soulsplitter on drums and Marie-Luise Thurm of Laudare on bass.

The album is described as one that…

…documents the dance at the abyss of depression, the fall, the struggle back to the surface, the act of saving your own life over and over again, only to discover that what comes after can be just as frightening as what came before. Only more alive. More honest. More self-determined.

Furthermore, influencing the album is Sullivan’s awareness of…

…an element of metaphorical violence, the desire to be broken open, to crack the facade, to split open the surface in order to reach some imagined core.

Sullivan embraces this and names it “the hunger”. This is a “hunger for life itself. For connection. For genuine encounter, whatever the cost.”