Almost 3 years since the release of their Lifeforce Records debut have passed, but now The Holeum have finished the works on the follow-up to the 2016 debut album “Negative Abyss”.
The new album will be entitled “Sublime Emptiness” and is set to be released by late August.
“On this album we keep the essence of our first release, but the sound has been brought to a new dimension. Our identifying traits have been redefined through darker and harder passages, more complex structures without losing our melodic character. “Sublime Emptiness” lyrically deals with the transcendence of human beings as microcosmic particles and our spiritual connection with the macrocosm.” – comments the band.
Founded in the second half of 2014, former musicians of bands like NahemaH, Demised, quantumXperience, Hela, Neptunian Sun, and Priest of Dawn started this new outlet to stretch the boundaries and to reinforce the emotional impression of what dark and weirdly music can be and achieve.
The Holeum is confirmed to play Rock The Coast Festival in June with such heavyweights as Scorpions, Rainbow, Opeth, Europe, Mayhem and Carcass to name just a few.
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LINEUP
Pablo Egido – Vocals&Drones
Paco Porcel – Bass
Miguel Fernández – Drums
Luis Albaladejo – Guitars
Julián Velasco – Guitars
BIOGRAPHY
Having the title “Negative Abyss”, the debut album of Spanish band THE HOLEUM has to sound destructive, and hopeless. Founded in the second half of 2014, former musicians of bands like NahemaH, Demised, quantumXperience, Hela, Neptunian Sun, and Priest of Dawn started this new outlet to stretch the boundaries and to reinforce the emotional impression of what dark and weirdly music can be and achieve.
“Negative Abyss” consists of eight tracks expressing inner conflicts and the never ending search for meaning in life. THE HOLEUM’s first album debouches in between post metal and dark ambient – always being full of atmosphere, and subtleness. Being in preoccupation with its multi-layered heavy tunes, the Spanish four-piece undergoes a “Negative Abyss” to find relief and peace of mind in the end.
The path is arduous as songs titles like ‘Cosmic Horror’, ‘Dystopia’, ‘Nuclear Mysticism’, or ‘Pictures of the Uncanny’ suggest. But THE HOLEUM face up to their inner demons.
That is the idea where we extract our concept from, we are a sonic and cosmic vision of the sublime and the idea of a macrocosm formed by the microcosm.
DISCOGRAPHY
Negative Abyss - 2016
Sublime Emptiness - 2019