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MESSIER 16: Norwegian prog metal stalwarts announce new album "Shouts from the Cliffs of Heterodoxy"

  • Jason Hesley
  • 3 hours ago
  • 1 min read

Norwegian progressive metal band MESSIER 16 will release their third full-length album, “Shouts from the Cliffs of Heterodoxy”, on October 23, 2026 via Time To Kill Records.


The first single "Time-Swayed Cities" is now available:




“Time-Swayed Cities” explores the experience of temporal displacement, the feeling of existing out of sync with the age surrounding you. Throughout the song, modern cityscapes fracture into visions of forgotten eras, future technologies, horse-drawn carriages, collapsing architecture, and shifting reflections of worlds that no longer, or perhaps never did, exist.

Rather than presenting time as linear, the track portrays it as unstable and hostile: a reality where streets bend, buildings recoil, and entire civilizations seem to flicker in and out of view. The lyrics follow a figure unable to locate “their” time, caught between nostalgia, futurism, and the alienation of contemporary life.

The single continues the band’s fascination with psychological portraiture and unstable perception, with the album itself diving into the realm of delusion-related illnesses and fractured realities.


Tracklist:

1. Nostalgia Theft Reminiscence

2. Blank Absurdist Form

3. Gloom-Chaser

4. Holoparasite

5. Time-Swayed Cities

6. Glittering Afterwaves

7. Perennial Shift I - Moss

8. Perennial Shift II - Evergreen

9. Perennial Shift III - Plietesial

10. Mollusk Herald

11. Dream Heritage Veto

12. Trauma Gift Repression

 
 
 

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