EMPTINESS Announce New Album Nowhere Speaks

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.

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Praise for Emptiness’ “Nothing But The Whole”:

“Dreamlike music: slippery, shifting, averse to patterns and logic, discomfiting, even frightening.” — Stereogum

“[…] intensely claustrophobic. And ill. I’m not sure I’ve heard music that felt so thoroughly diseased.” — Angry Metal Guy

“[…] the most immersing and emotive of them all.” — Metal Storm

“[…] sluggish, depressive and vile; they are gothic, jagged and trippy; and they’re also curiously pretty.” — Your Last Rites

“[…] one of 2014’s best releases.” — Metal Bandcamp

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Tracklist:
1. Nothing but the Whole (Part 2) (01:19)
2. The Threat (04:07)
3. Nowhere Speaks (05:37)
4. Darkness Commands (01:02)
5. Words to Wind (08:24)
6. One Must See All (01:29)
7. When the Whole Arrives (05:43)
8. The Clash of Forces (03:08)
9. Next in Line (04:15)
10. All for Nothing (06:37)
Full runtime: 41:44

Line-up:
Jérémie Bezier — Vocals, Bass
Olivier J.L.W. — Guitars
Simon L. — Guitars
Dea Hydra — Synths
Laye Louhenapessy — Drums