EMPTINESS Share New Single “The Clash of Forces” From Forthcoming Album Nowhere Speaks
Posted on May 6, 2026
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Watch “The Clash of Forces” here: https://youtu.be/O1P91BIHD5k
“The Clash of Forces” is the first thing you hear from Nowhere Speaks, and it does not ease you in. The album describes a world beyond human reach, but this track is not about observing that world from a safe distance. It’s about transmission. The forces of “Nowhere” speaking through the band, through the performance, through the walls of the space where it was captured. The mystic imagery in the video is not atmosphere. It is evidence of intrusion, another layer pressing through into the visible. No distance between sound and source.
The track is also the first glimpse of what the recording process actually meant: the whole album, save for vocals, keyboards and additional effects, was played live in the studio, after four years of preparation, rehearsals, and tests to ensure the music could be performed with the right weight and intention. That is not a production detail so much as a commitment to a specific kind of tension, the kind that does not survive being assembled in pieces. Vide (2021) had no distortion, was sung entirely in French, and existed at the edge of silence; Nowhere Speaks moves in the opposite direction, and does so deliberately, opening exactly where Nothing But The Whole (2014) cut off mid-riff and closing by looping back to that album’s opening riff. “The Clash of Forces” is a way into the architecture EMPTINESS presents.
Nowhere Speaks is out July 17th, 2026, via Season of Mist.
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