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Gaerea are waking into a new era. The Portuguese masked sensations are no longer strictly a black metal band. With "Coma", they've surfaced to the top of extreme metal. Their critically acclaimed new album racked up more than 1 million streams within 24 hours of landing on Spotify.
"'Coma', the quintet's fourth full-length, not only finds them sharpening their craft", FLOOD gushes, "but it also makes a strong claim as 2024's best metal record, regardless of subgenre".
To lay claim over their new domain, later this month, Gaerea are touring North America with Zeal & Ardor and Zetra. Today, the band are treating the vortex societies in the U.S. and Canada with a tantalizing glimpse of their striking live performance. The new video for "Coma" includes never-before-seen footage from this year's treks to China and Taiwan, though the title track off their new album also shows just how far Gaerea have come.
Watch the video for "Coma"
Though produced by their trusted confident Miguel Tereso, "Coma" broadens Gaerea's signature sound by taking it in two seemingly opposed directions. The title track is one of the heavier songs on the whole album. Concussive drum fills open the floodgates for a venomous groove that shakes its scales like a dragon. But its tortured screams and piercing melodies reveal a mysterious phantom pain.
"This is the song that explains the whole record, basically", the band's unnamed vocalist told Apple Music. "I was thinking about how to write a song about someone in a coma, but they're still conscious of it. Because if there's no consciousness, there won't be a song. So, this is a bit like waking up in a dark room and seeing the whole word around you, but you can't really figure out if it's reality, if it's memories, if it's your imagination, or just your lost dreams in life. It deals with that anxiety of trying to figure out if you're really here or not, or if this is the afterlife - and whatever the afterlife might look like".
Next year, Gaerea are taking "Coma" on their first headlining tour of Europe. Catch them in April in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Gaerea European Headlining Tour 2025
16 Apr: Osnabrück, DE @ Bastard Club
17 Apr: Aalborg, DK @ 1000Fryd
18 Apr: Oslo, NO @ Inferno Festival
19 Apr: Stockholm, SE @ Kollektivet Livet
20 Apr: Copenhagen, DK @ BETA
22 Apr: Hamburg, DE @ Headcrash
23 Apr: Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
24 Apr: Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
25 Apr: Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
26 Apr: Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadmitte
27 Apr: Frankfurt, DE @ Das Bett
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