“Emptiness is an old man, isolated for too long, bitter, he’s changing again.”

Belgian project EMPTINESS has teamed up with Le Botanique for a very special digital Livestream. The stream will take place on April 29th, 2021 @19:00 UTC. The event is completely free for all to watch on Facebook HERE. For donations to the band (in full), you can grab ‘tickets’ HERE.

EMPTINESS comment om the stream: “We have partnered with Le Botanique to offer you a deep introspective live experience. This adaptation brings a new light in the tunnel they lured us in with our new album ‘Vide’…“

EMPTINESS will be playing in support of their freshly released album ‘Vide’. The new offering is completely produced by vocalist/bass player Jérémie Bézier, who is trying to create something authentic and avoid all external energies. The tracking mostly happened during the Belgian lockdown, in his apartment and rooftop 7th floor in Brussels.

EMPTINESS is back with their 6th full-length ‘Vide’, the record that might be described as the most accurate musical representation of the year 2020; Unsettling anxiety manifestation in the sonic form!

Extreme music has always been drawn towards the dark side of artistic expression. This has often led to an ever-escalating race of trying to push the boundaries by just becoming harder, faster, and somehow louder.EMPTINESS beg to differ and their new album ‘Vide’ makes abundantly clear just how far the Belgian explorers of the tenebrous are willing to go.

Founded in Europe’s center of gravity, Brussels, Belgium in the year 1998, EMPTINESS embarked on their musical journey with a burning vision to delve deep into darkness and horror. While the band was taking musical inspiration from different extreme styles such as black and death metal, the Belgians approached them in an open-minded manner of continuous experimentation.

Following their inception, EMPTINESS first released the two demos ‘Eternal Rising’ (2000) and ‘Necrorgy’ (2002) that received a remarkable welcome in the underground. Yet with each new album, ‘Guilty to Exist’ (2004), ‘Oblivion’ (2007), ‘Error’ (2012), and ‘Nothing but the Whole’ (2014), the Belgians were also increasingly leaving a mark in the mainstream music press.

EMPTINESS scored the devil’s luck in and won the perfect production set-up to create new sinister soundscapes during the recordings of ‘Not For Music’ in 2017. After recording in their own Blackout Studio, the Belgians received an invitation to further enhance the production of ‘Not for Music’ by Jeordie White aka Twiggy Ramirez (MARILYN MANSON, A PERFECT CIRCLE, NINE INCH NAILS). The final mix and mastering were done by Sean Beavan (GUNS N’ ROSES, NIN, SLAYER). 

‘Vide’ (2021) was meant as a claustrophobic album, a journey of an infinite mind stuck into a world too small. Questioning the essence of one perception, this album invites you to rethink your grasp of reality. To that end, it was important for EMPTINESS to be isolated during its “experimentations”. Recordings would take place sometimes in confined spaces like apartments or a cabin in the woods, and sometimes on a city roof allowing to contemplate a strange human world from above. Involvement was strictly limited to the band members who took care of all audio production and visuals work. The pandemic and lockdown happened while recording was in progress; a materialization of the imaginary world being created. The album either by coincidence or not is in tune with our dissonant times.

Enough. Put down your phone, go lock yourself in a small compartment wearing nothing but noisecanceling headphones and let EMPTINESS lure you into their new realm. You have been warned.

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