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Vipassi streams their album “Lightless” before its official release

Vipassi’s new album “Lightless” is set to be released this Friday, January 26 through Season Of Mist.

In Buddhist tradition, Vipassi is the twenty-second of the twenty-eight Buddhas. Etymologically, the name has its roots in clear vision – a being of extreme contemplation. The band of the same name is a world-spnning instrumental extreme metal band from the lands of Australia, France and the UK.

With members of acts such as Ne Obliviscaris, Black Lava, Hadal Maw and Virvum, their work on the 2017 debut album Sunyata, which has a loose signification of Emptiness Or Void, set the grounds for a technically impressive and fully instrumental exploration of sonic textures in what can best be described as – a divine experience reaching the depths of the human soul.

His new album Lightless is set to be released this Friday, January 26 through Season Of Mist, but the band decided to stream it on Season Of Mist‘ youtube account and can be listened below:

The Australian quartet’s new album, Lightless, explores all sorts of twisted phenomena, from the hooded ritual of Phainesthai, the distorted maze of Labyrinthine Hex to the star-gazing mastery on Morningstar. It’s no wonder that Vipassi can spin epic stories without uttering a word. As a purely instrumental band, they’re blessed with a telepathic chemistry. Watch as they weave as one through this playthrough of recent single Labyrinthine Hex:

As well as being instrumental masters, Vipassi have also crafted intricate narratives on their first single Phainesthai with a video shot, directed and edited by Jack Fontes:

Originally made as a project between Daniel Presland (Drums) and Ben Boyle (Guitars) as far back as 2007 to explore new concepts and sounds not currently engaged by their projects at the time, the band has since then grown and expanded to an international connection of like-minded musicians and virtuosos with Arran McSporran (Fretless Bass) and Benjamin Baret (Guitars).

Further exploring their labyrinthine textures and layers of sounds, the band Vipassi is back with their sophomore album Lightless. The album shifts from the realm of the void towards a clash of light and dark – and sees the band expanding into even more technical and experimental realms, pushing the limits of their own ideas and abilities to heights unimagined when the band began all those years ago.

Lightless was recorded at Bushido Studios, Melbourne (Australia) with additional recording in Gandia (Spain) and Bordeaux (France). Troy Mccosker is the sound engineer behing Lightless which has also been mastered and mixedy Mark Lewis. The album artwork has been created by artist Xenoyr.