Emptiness News

EMPTINESS, the Belgian extreme music apparition founded in Brussels in 1998, will release their seventh full-length album, Nowhere Speaks, through Season of Mist. The record spans ten tracks and opens not with an introduction but with continuation: the first sound heard is a riff picked up mid-bar, precisely where their 2014 album Nothing But The Whole ended in abrupt, unexplained silence. That break, long discussed among the band’s following, was not a mistake. Nowhere Speaks resolves it by entering the gap and closes by looping back to the opening riff of Nothing But The Whole, sealing the two records into a deliberate cycle. Between those structural anchors, the album builds a world defined entirely on its own terms: a dimension removed from all human presence, governed by forces and energies that operate without acknowledgment of whoever is listening. The music recorded for Nowhere Speaks is dense, live, and physically present in a way that distinguishes it sharply from its predecessor. Where Vide (2021) was distortion-free, sung in French, and recorded in the isolated conditions of the pandemic, the new album returns to weight, intensity, and a full-band physicality. The entire record, with the exception of vocals, keyboards and additional effects, was captured live in the studio after four years of preparation, testing and rehearsal. The result has a coiled, inhabited quality: the pressure is not processed or applied in post; it is played. Nowhere Speaks does not ask to be understood. It asks to be entered. Nowewhere Speaks is out July 17th, 2026 via Season of Mist.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are now releasing the video for their full live concert at the Roadburn Redux Festival, which took place in April 2021. The show can be watched in its entirety via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE!

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS have teamed up with the prestigious Roadburn Festival for the full album stream of their upcoming opus ‘Vide’! You can now listen to the album in full HERE.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are now revealing the third track of their upcoming full length; ‘Vide’! The new offering ‘Vide, incomplet’ can now be viewed via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are now revealing the second track of their upcoming full length; ‘Vide’! The new offering ‘Le Mal Est Chez Lui’ can now be viewed in the form of a somewhat unnerving video via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are now revealing the very first track of their upcoming full length; ‘Vide’! The new offering ‘L’ailleurs’ can now be viewed via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are now revealing the cover artwork, track-titles and other album details of their upcoming new full length; ‘Vide’! The album is produced by vocalist/bass player Jérémie Bézier, who is trying to create something authentic and avoid all external energies. The tracking mostly happenened during the Belgian lockdown, in his appartement and rooftop 7th floor in Brussels.

Belgian dark metal outfit EMPTINESS are currently in studio for the recordings of their brand new full length, which will be released via Season of Mist later this year. The album will be 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 have released a live music video for the track “Your Skin Won’t Hide You”, which was featured on their latest full-length ‘Not For Music’. The video, which was shot during their performance at the Botanique in the native Belgian capital Brussels on the 30th of March this year, is now streaming via the link below.

EMPTINESS have premiered their complete forthcoming album ‘Not for Music’, which will be out in stores on January 20th.

EMPTINESS have premiered another sinister song taken from their forthcoming album ‘Not for Music’, which will be out in stores on January 20th. The track “Let It Fall” is now exclusively streaming via the official media partners below.

EMPTINESS have premiered a new masterpiece of darkness taken from their forthcoming album ‘Not for Music’, which will be out in stores on January 20th.

EMPTINESS have unveiled the first stunning track taken from their forthcoming album ‘Not for Music’, which will be out in stores on January 20th.

Season of Mist are proud to announce the signing of EMPTINESS. The Belgian squad will release their next full-length on this label.