For those unaware, despair, loss, love, and existential struggles have always been the foundation of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s distinctive sound.

Since their formation in 2011, multi-instrumentalist M.S. and vocalist J.J. have gained recognition for pushing musical boundaries with their emotionally charged blend of atmospheric extreme metal and melodic post-rock, grunge and modern hardcore, carving out a genre of their own.

Taking four years to craft their next epic chapter after 2021’s Maere (which peaked at #4 on the official German charts), HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY will now release their new tour-de-force, Scorched Earth, on January 24th, 2025 through AOP Records.

The album is a snapshot of the world we are living in, a world that’s tragically broken. Our society is divided to its core and peace seems further away than ever in the last decades. It still seems like one crisis follows another, and this feeling of impending doom is captured on “Scorched Earth.”

1. Heal Me (feat. Tim Yatras / Austere)
2. Keep Me Longing
3. Without You I’m Just A Sad Song
4. No Graves But The Sea
5. With Autumn I’ll Surrender
6. I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep
7. Too Late For Goodbyes (feat. Serena Cherry / Svalbard)
8. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (feat. P.G. of GROZA)

This blisteringly forthright new collection of wonderfully crafted, highly expressive tracks, opens on the propulsive Heal Me (featuring Tim Yatras, one half of black metal duo Austere) and then we get brought forth the melodiously free flowing Keep Me Longing, the emboldened Without You I’m Just A Sad Song, and the all-embracing No Graves But The Sea.

Up next is the rhythmically melodic, yet absorbent fast tempo of With Autumn I’ll Surrender and that is in turn backed by the impassioned I Was Just Another Promise You Couldn’t Keep, the creatively sculpted, harmonically layered Too Late For Goodbyes (featuring Serena Cherry of the British post-hardcore band Svalbard), the album coming to a close on their remarkable rendition of the 1995 Radiohead track Street Spirit (Fade Out) (featuring P.G. of the black metal quartet GROZA).

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