GAEREA Release New Album Loss via Century Media
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"Song of the Week...Melodic Post-Metal Grandeur" CONSEQUENCE
"an epic wash of blast-intensive beatwork, sung-and-screamed intensity and seafoam-iridescent guitar intricacy" REVOLVER
"Massive choruses with leaping rock-based chord progressions complement soaring layers of chromatic black metal." DECIBEL
"one of extreme metal's most innovative, progressive forces" KNOTFEST
In just under a decade, Portuguese masked collective, 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. Today they've unleashed Loss, their first album with Century Media. Loss is the sound of GAEREA continuing to define and redefine itself, incorporating elements of the band’s post-black metal past with sharpened sonics and haunting melodies.
Watch Loss Official Videos:
"Submerged" | "Hellbound" | "Nomad" | "Phoenix"
'Metamorphosis – Shaping The Unknown' Documentary: Part 1 & Part 2
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 Alpha. “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.
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.
GAEREA is:
Vocalist - Alpha
Guitarist - Beta
Guitarist - Delta
Bass - Rho
Drums -Xi
Photo By Chantik Photography
The past two years have seen GAEREA bringing their energized and expressionistic live show to stages all over North America and Europe, being special guest on the last European ORBIT CULTURE tour, headlining to sold out crowds as well as playing festivals including Brutal Assault (CZ), Alcatraz (BE) and Summer Breeze (DE). This summer, the band is confirmed for various festivals and shows all over the world. Dates below, tickets here.
12 June 26 (CZ) Hradec Králové - Rock for People
13 June 26 (DE) Munich - Technikum
14 June 26 (IT) Ferrara - Ferrara Summer Fest
15 June 26 (IT) Milan - Q-Hub
16 June 26 (CH) Aarau - Kiff
20 Jun 26 (FR) Clisson - Hellfest
21 Jun 26 (BE) Dessel - Graspop Metal Meeting
23 June 26 (DE) Cologne - Club Vola
25 June 26 (DE) Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
27 Jun 26 (NO) Oslo - Tons of Rock
03 Jul 26 (ES) Viveiro - Resurrection Fest
07 Jul 26 (AUS) Perth - Amplifier Bar
09 Jul 26 (AUS) Adelaide - Lion Art Factory
10 Jul 26 (AUS) Melbourne - Max Watts
11 Jul 26 (AUS) Brisbane - Crow Bar
12 Jul 26 (AUS) Sydney - Crow Bar
14 Jul 26 (JAP) Tokyo - SPACE ODD
17 Jul 26 (DE) Weil am Rhein - Baden in Blut Fest
04 Aug 26 (FR) Seignosse - LE TUBE (w/ In Flames)
05 Aug 26 (ES) Pamplona - Totem Club
08 Aug 26 (ES) Devilla - Pandora
13 Aug 26 (FR) Carhaix-Plouguer - Motocultor Festival
15 Aug 26 (DE) Sulingen - Reload Festival
19 Aug 26 (NO) Bergen - USF Verfet (w/ In Flames)
20 Aug 26 (NO) Tønsberg - Foynhagen (w/ In Flames)
22 Aug 26 (SE) Göteborg - Göteborg Brinner (w/ In Flames, Avatar, Dark Tranquillity, Raised Fist, Thrown, Napalm Death…)
28 Aug 26 (ES) Fuengirola - Sun and Thunder Fest
Stay tuned for more live announcements.
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