23/09/2025
Today, doom/prog/sludge titans Void Of Sleep premiere the new video "Of a Demon In My View" at Legacy magazine's website: https://legacy.de/?view=article&id=3895:exklusiv-void-of-sleep-praesentieren-of-a-demon-in-my-view&catid=43 . The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated fourth album, The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare, set for international release on October 17th via Aural Music.
Forged in Ravenna, Italy in 2010, Void of Sleep – guitarist Gale, vocalist / guitarist Burdo, drummer Allo, and bassist Paso – conjure a cosmic amalgam of progressive sludge rock where epic rhythms melt into bottom-heavy doom breakdowns, complex time-signatures, and psychedelia. Following a three-song promo EP, Giants & Killers, which garnered the attention of Italian imprint Aural Music, the band released their full-length debut, Tales Between Reality and Madness, in 2013. Crowned, "adventurous, intelligent, and refreshingly addictive," by Teeth Of The Divine and an "underground gem worth discovering" by Metal Underground, the record proved wholly engrossing both sonically and thematically, with lyrics exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, oneiric visions, and lysergic nightmares.
With New World Order, released in late 2015, Void of Sleep continued their multi-faceted audio journey towards oblivion, featuring a new sound more complex and sludgier but even more melodic and more progressive. The seven-track concept album was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod etc.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois. Reaping the approval of fans and critics both stateside and abroad, New World Order landed at the #12 position on MetalSucks' Top 15 of 2015. Dead Rhetoric hailed a record that fell "somewhere in the netherworlds of sludgy doom, proggy doom, and occult doom." Outlaws Of The Sun warned "embrace the darkness, as New World Order is a stunning record" while Metal Temple, in an 8/10 score, called New World Order "simply captivating." The album was also included in different charts among the best albums of 2015 in several webzines and magazines, like MetalSucks and Metallus.
Following some lineup changes, with the departure of bassist Paso and the arrival of new bassist Andrea Burgio and keyboardist Mohammed Ashraf, the band settled into a five-member lineup, which recorded the previous album Metaphora and is now presenting the new, long-awaited fourth album. Ominously titled The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare, "Our new album is the soundtrack to the decline of a narcissistic, self-centered society that has lost all respect for itself and for the world around it," state Void of Sleep. "Musically, the album marks first the first time in which synthesizers were involved in the writing process from the very beginning. This shift allowed the band to take a broader, more progressive approach to composition, resulting in a sound that is both more personal and more contemporary - a significant step forward in the band’s evolution."
In the meantime, see & hear the brand-new video "Of a Demon In My View" exclusively HERE: https://legacy.de/?view=article&id=3895:exklusiv-void-of-sleep-praesentieren-of-a-demon-in-my-view&catid=43 , courtesy of Legacy, Germany's premier extreme metal authority. Also hear the previously revealed "Omens of Nothingness" at Aural Music's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Void of Sleep's The Abyss Into Which We All Have to Stare
1. Dark Gift
2. Omens From Nothingness
3. Misfortune Teller
4. Lullaby of Woe
5. From An Unborn Mother
6. Phantoms of Nihil
7. Of A Demon In My View
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