SVNEATR ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, 'NEVER RETURN'; TITLE-TRACK AND MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW!

Vancouver, BC’s SVNEATR has today announced their third album, Never Return, set to be released via Prosthetic Records on May 10. Alongside the album announcement, the progressive black metal group has shared the lead single and title track with an accompanying music video.

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEVER RETURN Above. Stream Never Return (single) via Apple Music | TIDAL | Deezer | Bandcamp and SpotifyPre-order Never Return here.

Speaking on the album announcement guitarist and vocalist Vitharr Monteith comments: "On behalf of SVNEATR we are so stoked to be able to announce our third album, Never Return will come out via Prosthetic Records on May 10! To have the confidence of a label like Prosthetic behind us, fueled us to write something special and brought forth our most cathartic record to date. It's some of our darkest material we've written and has more instrumental experimentation than ever before!

"We've believed in this record for a long time so I'm excited for people to finally be able to check it out. It's the perfect introduction for new fans and to our old faithful who have believed in us from the jump... you'll see."

Of the lead single and music video, Vitharr adds: "Never Return is the title track and the perfect introduction to the album. It's a dark and riffy track about where we were when we set out to write a new collection of songs.

"Stylistically, it's roots are black metal but what was exciting about this track was how much influence we took from 80's classic metal. It has a hooky chorus interwoven with twin guitar harmonies and lyrics that, while drenched in black metal melancholy, are about that craving and hunger to perform live.

"The video was shot during a record setting cold snap. It was somewhere around -15 to -20c and we did it at night! Frost formed on our guitar cases between takes and it affected the batteries in the cameras and the lighting. Grim and frostbitten indeed."

Ushering in the decade with climate emergency, a global pandemic and the ever growing corporate hegemony over community needs and spaces, the primary spark that brought Never Return to life was one of an internal and external world in a state of paralysis. Resignation in the face of despair, however, was never going to be on the cards for SVNEATR.

Commencing self-recording in 2022, with vocals and string arrangements recorded by Ryan Shepard at Little Red Sounds as well as mixing, the quartet’s ambitions for Never Return were realised in full thanks in part to a decade of honing their craft to a point of musical and self-actualization. Where previous releases saw SVNEATR display their dichotomous musicianship in atmospheric passages, Never Return shines with progressive influences taking up more presence.