Progressive death metallers Beyond Grace announce EP trilogy; release new single/video

First EP Welcome To The New Dark AgesPart 1 out 24th November

‘The Burning Season’ video streaming now

Progressive death metallers Beyond Grace are banning books and setting pages aflame on their latest single, ‘The Burning Season’. It is taken from their forthcoming new EP Welcome To The New Dark Ages Part 1, which is released on 24th November.

Eschewing the standard album cycle, Welcome To The New Dark Ages will be released as a series of three digital EPs – each of which will include an exclusive cover track, as well as eye-catching artwork by Gary Ronaldson of Bite Radius Designs (Napalm Death, Misery Index, Benighted), all culminating in a physical release which will collect the entire saga together in one cohesive whole.

Watch ‘The Burning Season’ video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QvLXFIDWU

Welcome To The New Dark Ages Part 1 pre-orders are available here: https://beyondgrace.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-new-dark-ages-part-1

Vocalist/bass player Andy Walmsley comments: “It only made sense, after going with the obvious water-theme for the ‘Here Comes the Flood’ video, to follow it up with something fire-based, and once we’d decided that ‘The Burning Season’ was going to be the lead/main single for the first EP, well… that just sealed the deal.

“Musically speaking ‘The Burning Season’ is easily one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written, and features some of the tightest, sharpest songwriting of our career.

“The lyrics reflect my own very real fears and anger about the path we’re on, where it seems like more and more people are rejecting science in favour of superstition, demonising ideals like compassion and understanding while lionising cruelty and ignorance as if they were virtues. It seems to me that there’s not a huge step from banning books to burning them, and if we’re not careful – as comfortable and as complacent as we’ve become – we’re in danger of repeating the same mistakes that led to all our past dark ages all over again.”

Over the course of two albums (2017’s Seekers and 2021’s Our Kingdom Undone) and a host of tours and shows supporting the likes of Hour of Penance, Blood Red Throne, The Monolith Deathcult, Cryptopsy, Darkane, and more, the group have built up a dedicated cult-following around the world with their distinctive blend of hook-laden heaviness and subtly proggy extremity.

Following their split from Prosthetic Records at the end of 2022 the band knew they needed to do something differently. The industry had changed, the musical landscape was still in flux, and the group themselves had experienced a series of trials, tribulations, and tragedies which had changed them in turn – if they were to survive and keep moving forwards.

Thus the seeds for the band’s third album, Welcome to the New Dark Ages, were sown.

Part 1 is set for release on 24th November and features three brand-new tracks – explosive lead-single ‘The Burning Season’, the cynically savage, prog-tinged ‘Buyer’s Remorse’, and the infectious, in-your-face intensity of ‘Misinfodemic’ – as well as the band’s crushingly creative cover of Peter Gabriel‘s ‘Here Comes the Flood’, showcasing an even heavier, angrier, and more aggressive sound while also expanding the group’s creative palette with injections of moody clean vocals and brooding atmosphere along the way.

Whether this is the beginning of a whole new era, or simply the soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it, one thing is for certain… this is Beyond Grace at their very best.