GAEREA Release "Nomad" Single / Video + 'Metamorphosis – Shaping The Unknown – Part I' Documentary
New Album Loss Out March 20 via Century Media Records
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Photo By Chantik Photography
After exploring water, fire and darkness Portuguese masked collective GAEREA are chasing the light in a freezing world with “Nomad”.
“The Nomad is the individual who goes through life at a constant moving pace just to avoid facing oneself—physically drifting, but emotionally running from guilt, self-doubt, and a fear of becoming something to despise. At its core, it’s a confession of alienation: a nomad not by choice, but by self-punishment and inner collapse”, says the band about “Nomad”, their new single and video. Like the previous videos from their upcoming album, Loss, “Nomad” was directed by Tre Film.
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In just under a decade, GAEREA has navigated countless darkened shades of metal, post-rock and artistry. Their work is nothing short of a beautiful enigma rooted in musical extremity and utter passion. Choosing a self-spawned name with no connection to any convenient metal tropes, GAEREA became a vehicle for its members to explore the frayed edges of the human condition without self-imposed limitations - not only on record, but also through their explosive live performance. Their combination of onstage rapture and sonic spirituality invites comparisons to kindred souls like Neurosis or Amen Ra. Swathed entirely in black with their distinct sigil occupying the space where their faces should be, there’s both a totality and anonymity that’s transcendent and binding when the fivesome takes stage; a distinct, hermetic code that connects all aspects of the band from the musical to the spiritual.
“It’s not about the individual or seeing our faces,” says the anonymous vocalist. “I don’t want people to know me. I want people to connect with the music and the lyrics that I’m singing and apply that to their own lives.” GAEREA has christened their audience “The Vortex Society”, a collective consciousness that draws inspiration from the band’s unrestrained explorations into the human psyche.
The band’s masked and ritualistic live presence has become not just part of the show, but an integral part of GAEREA that pushes their musical extremity into the philosophical avant-garde. Their uniform was designed to provide a faceless, androgynous shield that allows for them to freely launch into a performance often defined by its own physicality.
“We’re not about to apologize for simply being who we are,” says the band’s vocalist of the direction taken on GAEREA’s latest endeavor, their first with the same lineup and creative nucleus of members as their previous record Coma. Recorded in early 2025 in Portugal with long-running collaborator Miguel Teroso at Demigod Recordings, Loss is the sound of the masked specters of GAEREA laying their souls bare. Musically and emotionally, they’re opening themselves up and bringing a decade’s worth of musical and personal soul-rending into sharper focus and becoming a genre-of-one in the process.
Loss sees its release March 20 via Century Media. See below for formats and tracklist.
GAEREA is:
Vocalist - Alpha
Guitarist - Beta
Guitarist - Delta
Bass - Rho
Drums -Xi
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