TesseracT have announced a new three-track EP titled “ARC_ONE: Obscura.” The effort is set to be released on March 5 via Nuclear Blast.
According to vocalist Dan Tompkins, the band took what they learned from their latest album, “War Of Being,” and applied it to the new material:
“We’re trying to approach this a little bit differently by not just dropping a full album. We’re trying to work with how music is consumed in general, but also trying to deliver what we think our fans really want from us: a captivating story and a good concept.
‘War of Being’ was very much about ego and the masks we wear. The ending to that album was quite important – it was about tearing the mask away, which is a key lyric.
As I made more music on the back of ‘War of Being,’ I started to discover more about myself and my own being. I’ve started to really think about what direction we could take the next batch of music in. For me, it’s very much about understanding what’s left when you’ve exposed who you really are.“
The first single, “Crucible,” can be found below. Tompkins added the following about that:
“[It explores] the pressure that shapes and distorts the individual – the fact that we’re being constantly measured and judged and refined until our real, authentic self is pushed further and further inside, and buried.”
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