Following the crucial glimmer of hope that was yesterday’s “False Light,” Swedish heavy favorites Imminence have upped the ante with another single, as well as the formal announcement of their next album. The group’s Axis Mundi is out later this fall, but its release is being preceded by their second single this week, “Crestfallen.”
A press release explains that this week’s diptych of tunes acts as somewhat of a compare-and-contrast excercise, one that balances “devastating heaviness with cinematic breadth,” in order to tease “a record that moves between darkness, catharsis, and light.”
“False Light,” as we learned yesterday (July 21st) was an unrelenting attack of screams, thunderously percussive moments and riffs about as pointed as the medieval blades slashing about in the battlefield-made music video. While “Crestfallen” thrives on mega-chunked, melancholic guitar work, it also presents cleaner vocals, immersive orchestration and weeping violin from bow-hoisting frontman Eddie Berg.
You can stream their latest single now, via the player up above.
Axis Mundi follows 2024’s The Black, and was self-produced by Imminence, who worked alongside engineer Henrik Udd (Architects, Bring Me The Horizon, Dayseeker) and producer Drew Fulk (Knocked Loose, HEALTH).
When the group unleashed their “The Sword That Never Bends” video in June, they teased its sword-and-sorcery-styled video as “the first glimpse into a larger visual world the band has been building behind the scenes.”
Now, the group further explain that their album is framed as a “mythological journey through a world suspended between life and death, exploring themes of suffering, redemption, and the search for light beyond darkness.” Per yesterday’s “False Light” video, the story may entail an epic journey being undertaken by a blade-packing swordsman and his newly-acquired puppy.
Axis Mundi is out October 2nd via their new label home, Sumerian Records. That said, you can currently pre-order the album on exclusive “Gold, Neon Orange, & Silver Striped w/ Black Splatter” vinyl (limited to 300 copies) right now in Revolver’s shop, where an exclusive cassette and turntable slipmat are also available.
As previously reported, Imminence also have a North American tour coming up in November. That headline run finds them joined by support acts Dying Wish and Gaerea, and it begins November 13th at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. More show info can be found here.
Axis Mundi tracklisting:
Twisting In The Wind
The Sword That Never Bends
Devil May Try
Crestfallen
False Light
If Not Now, When
Didn’t Think About You (Lately)
Leviathan
Shed Your Skin
Power Divine
Exodus