AMENRA’s New Album Available Via Neurot Recordings + Full Streaming

AMENRA's crushing new studio album Mass V, the band’s debut for Neurot Recordings, is out now worldwide.

Over recent weeks, AMENRA has lured us with several tracks and multiple installments of mind-melting video footage from Mass V. These elements have shown what to expect from the album, but now fans can hear the whole record in its entirety which is streaming via Cvlt Nation AT THIS LOCATION.

The 2xLP version of Mass V is also available now. 250 of the 500 copies of this limited edition 180-gram silver vinyl version are available to fans via mailorder HERE; the other half of the pressing will be available on-location at the band’s upcoming record release show on December 22nd. This vinyl edition of the album contains different artwork than the CD pressing, including additional sounds and alternative mixes by Billy Anderson and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, Scorn, working with SUNN O))), Earth, Isis) and comes with a special lyric/picture booklet.

AMENRA will be touring across Europe in the weeks ahead in support of this beast of a record, with a plethora of tour and festival dates already confirmed and with more in the works. Keep an eye on the band's Facebook page for an announcement next week about a very special and rare UK show.

AMENRA Live Rituals:

12/01/2012 Db’s – Utrecht, Netherlands @ Le Guess Who Festival w/ Oathbreaker [info]

12/22/2012 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium *record release show w/ Oathbreaker, TBHR, Scott Kelly [info]

1/11/2013 Machinefabriek – Groningen, Netherlands @ Eurosonic Festival

2/10/2013 De Kreun – Kortrijk, Belgium [info] w/ Eleanora

2/16/2013 Perron – Ieper, Belgium @ Winterfest

2/22/2013 Burgerweeshuis – Deventer, Netherlands w/ TBHR

2/24/2013 Mod – Hasselt, Belgium w/ Hessian

4/19/2013 Patronaat Church – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival [info]

European Tour 2013:

4/25/2013 Glazart – Paris, France w/ TBHR

4/26/2013 Epicerie Moderne – Lyon, France

4/27/2013 Boulevard Rock Club – Misano Adriatico (RN), Italy

4/28/2013 Traffic live club – Roma, Italy

4/29/2013 Lo Fi club – Milano, Italy

4/30/2013 Gaswerk – Winterthur, Switzerland

5/01/2013 Arena – Wenen, Austria

5/02/2013 Feierwerk – Munchen, Germany

5/03/2013 Conne Island – Leipzig, Germany w/ Syndrome

5/04/2013 Klub Firlej – Wroclaw, Poland @ Asymmetry Festival

5/05/2013 Bi Nuu – Berlin, Germany

5/26/2012 Stuk – Leuven, Belgium w/ Oathbreaker

AMENRA´s monstrous “Mass V” HERE

Boden

Dearborn and Buried

A Mon Ame

Nowena I 9.10

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AMENRA´s monstrous “Mass V”

I hear sounds of past born of black art, ritual cries with a dense crudeness, whispers claiming vast lands wrecked by war, songs invoking the spirits of men whose spilled blood forever stained Wissant. I hear AMENRA´s monstrous “Mass V”.

Formed in West-Flanders, Belgium the down-tempo influenced band Amenra has been spreading since 1999 an explosive atmosphere of sludge metal in the underground community sharing with their audience more than music a higher experience, an artistic performance of live rituals with obscure visual effects. Amenra is not a simple quintet contemplating Bjorn L. Lebon (drums), Lennart Bossu (guitars), Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove (guitars), Colin H. Van Eeckhout (vocals) and Levy Saynaeve (bass); they form a group of visionaries with multiple gifts called Church of Ra and in addiction to their musical career they offer their artistic talents such as sculptures crafting, painting and photography with a dark and disturbing mark but yet imperious. They use their art in their stage acts for live visuals to take the viewers in a deep journey through the supernatural and crushing histories that their music calls on.

Amenra evolved constantly in the course of time and their works as also performances have matured with experience and skill. They are an ambitious, confident and strong band hungry to show their vision of postmodern music, a vision that differs from the usual standard of what music is. We are used to listen to well worked and flourished compositions in a general manner and somehow we are linked by a common knowledge which define us as a whole. The truth is that we shouldn´t define music cause there are no limits to what it can be and Amenra is the living proof of this fact. Their slow-tempo rhythms, repetitive chords, unusual progression of the sounds, calm atmosphere which becomes savagely dense, poetic words, visual effects and ritualistic performance breaks the common knowledge of what music is and opens new horizons to the listener.

After a handful of works  released such as six splits (“Prayer 8: Offerande”- 2004; “Gameness/Amen Ra/Gantz/Vuur”-2004; “Amenra/Hitch”-2007; “Amenra/Black Heart Rebellion”- 2011; “Amenra/Hive Destruction”- 2011; “ Amenra/Oathbreaker”- 2011), three EP´s (“Prayers 9+10”- 2004; “ Mass II: Sermons”- 2005; “Afterlife”- 2009), one compilation (“Mass III- II+IIII”- 2009), one live album (“Live”- 2012) and three full-lengths (“Mass I: Prayer I – VI”- 2003; “Mass III”- 2005; “Mass IIII”- 2008), a new full-length album called “Mass V” is going to see the light of day at 27, November on North America and at 26, November on Europe through Neurot Recordings to distort once again the notion and concept of music as we know it.

Their newest studio album “Mass V” was created in La Chapelle Studio engineered by Billy Anderson and is nothing more than an enlightening voyage through Wissant a village in North France where Amenra found inspiration to its creation. They found a land that still feels the wounds of a dark past, a land destroyed by the World War II. They found what they need to give life to a solid work with the proper dark essence to do justice to their poetic vision of music. The result is a four movement work that gives forty minutes of the deepest obscure music, forty minutes of the deepest doom atmosphere with a constant melodic vibration, forty minutes of a slow tenebrous ambient, forty minutes of brutal music afflatus.

“Mass V” begins with the song “Boden” a melodic beginning with an exotic riffing that after two minutes gives place to a huge heaviness of sludge with loud shouts and compressed distortion that blows your mind with its intensity. After this explosion the music suffers many modifications becoming calmer with a poetic speech and returning to the heavy and chaotic atmosphere. “Dearborn and Buried” is the second song of the album with 9:14 minutes of down-tempo metal to offer; this song unleashes doom noise at a gross pace, it´s the darkest and heaviest song of the album. The third and fourth song are called “A Mon Ame” and “Nowena|9.10” respectively and are a masterpiece of music, a complex composition of sludge metal with many influences almost in the line of the progressive, always mutating to a new environment (must listen).

Amenra are undoubtedly finding their place in the world and their inspirations, talent, hard work and above all outsatnding live performances are creating a solid base of fans. With “Mass V” they are a step closer to achieve a great mass of followers and to spread their visions.

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Boden

Dearborn and Buried

A Mon Ame

Nowena I 9.10

“Nowena I 9.10” lyrics:

the darkest hours will seem long
they will feel like for ever
then new light breaks into dawn

novena burns for my brothers at night
a flame that burns the bodies of light

brothers burn. I see the fire in their eyes.

the past is your now
the present now passed

now is the time

(everything awaits you and the light will let you)

“Boden” lyrics:

carry within

a fear

that blossoms on skin

forever alone

sorrow says

bury my bones

carry within

regret

for everything

tear old pain away

I renounce this day and

I renounce every wound

made in my flesh

made by my flesh

are you awake? what did you see?

I'm a sudden hissing,

right behind your ear.

a white noise

but it's quiet now

I am reason

I am fear

inflict.

I call out

and you fear me

I call out

and all the brothers in the world they hear me

but the pain remains the same

AMENRA will release Mass V in Europe on November 26th and in North America on November 27th, their first release as part of the Neurot Recordings family. Today, the CD version of the album is available for preorder. Orders for the standard CD pressing can be placed now direct via Neurot, while the special, limited edition colored CD version (black top/black bottom) signed by the band and containing additional artwork and can be ordered from Soulslayer. The vinyl version of Mass V will be available for preorder in the coming days.

AMENRA Confirmed Live Rituals:
12/01/2012 Db’s – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival w/ Oathbreaker [info]
12/22/2012 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium *record release show w/ Oathbreaker, TBHR, Scott Kelly [info]
1/11/2013 Machinefabriek – Groningen, Netherlands @ Eurosonic Festival
2/10/2013 De Kreun – Kortrijk, Belgium [info] w/ Eleanora
2/16/2013 Perron – Ieper, Belgium @ Winterfest
2/22/2013 Burgerweeshuis – Deventer, Netherlands w/ TBHR
2/24/2013 Mod – Hasselt, Belgium w/ Hessian
4/19/2013 Patronaat Church – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival [info]

European Tour 2013:
4/25/2013 Glazart – Paris, France w/ TBHR
4/26/2013 Epicerie Moderne – Lyon, France
4/27/2013 Boulevard Rock Club – Misano Adriatico (RN), Italy
4/28/2013 Traffic live club – Roma, Italy
4/29/2013 Lo Fi club – Milano, Italy
4/30/2013 Gaswerk – Winterthur, Switzerland
5/01/2013 Arena – Wenen, Austria
5/02/2013 Feierwerk – Munchen, Germany
5/03/2013 Conne Island – Leipzig, Germany w/ Syndrome
5/04/2013 Klub Firlej – Wroclaw, Poland @ Asymmetry Festival
5/05/2013 Bi Nuu – Berlin, Germany
5/26/2012 Stuk – Leuven, Belgium w/ Oathbreaker

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AMENRA Release New Video From Pending Neurot Recordings Debut

After stealing the show at Damnation Festival in Leeds this past weekend, AMENRA are firmly focused on the release of their new studio album Mass V which will see the cold light of day later this month on November 27th via Neurot Recordings.

Having recently showcased their album opener "Dearborn and Buried" via their official Soundcloud page, we explode into the new week with the album’s second track "Boden," complete with lyrics and accompanying video. Check it out below.

“Boden” lyrics:

carry within

a fear
that blossoms on skin
forever alone

sorrow says

bury my bones

carry within

regret

for everything

tear old pain away

I renounce this day and

I renounce every wound

made in my flesh

made by my flesh

are you awake? what did you see?

I'm a sudden hissing,

right behind your ear.

a white noise

but it's quiet now

I am reason

I am fear

inflict.

I call out

and you fear me

I call out

and all the brothers in the world they hear me

but the pain remains the same

AMENRA are also proud to announce new live appearances and 2013 European tour dates in support of the staggering Mass V.

AMENRA Confirmed Live Rituals:

12/01/2012 Db’s – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival w/ Oathbreaker [info]

12/22/2012 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium *record release show w/ Oathbreaker, TBHR, Scott Kelly [info]
1/11/2013 Machinefabriek – Groningen, Netherlands @ Eurosonic Festival

2/10/2013 De Kreun – Kortrijk, Belgium [info] w/ Eleanora

2/16/2013 Perron – Ieper, Belgium @ Winterfest

2/22/2013 Burgerweeshuis – Deventer, Netherlands w/ TBHR

2/24/2013 Mod – Hasselt, Belgium w/ Hessian

4/19/2013 Patronaat Church – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival [info]

European Tour 2013:

4/25/2013 Glazart – Paris, France w/ TBHR

4/26/2013 Epicerie Moderne – Lyon, France

4/27/2013 Boulevard Rock Club – Misano Adriatico (RN), Italy

4/28/2013 Traffic live club – Roma, Italy

4/29/2013 Lo Fi club – Milano, Italy

4/30/2013 Gaswerk – Winterthur, Switzerland

5/01/2013 Arena – Wenen, Austria

5/02/2013 Feierwerk – Munchen, Germany

5/03/2013 Conne Island – Leipzig, Germany w/ Syndrome

5/04/2013 Klub Firlej – Wroclaw, Poland @ Asymmetry Festival

5/05/2013 TBA – Germany

5/26/2012 Stuk – Leuven, Belgium w/ Oathbreaker

Since their 1999 inception, AMENRA have infiltrated underground music communities with their grand style of organic sludge/doom metal through a plethora of LPs, EPs, and splits with Hessian, TBHR, Oathbreaker and others, through a variety of independent labels including Anvil Of Fury, Sound Devastation, Hypertension and their own Church of Ra imprint. Intense touring and festival appearances across Europe and beyond helped these diverse recordings transform into the live setting, captivating visual effects always an imperative element of the band’s on-stage dominance.

Neurot announced AMENRA’s induction into their clan in July of 2011, which was followed directly by the band’s second European tour in support of the mighty Neurosis, the bond between both parties strengthening. Last November the members of AMENRA wandered through the countries neighboring Belgium in search of the perfect inspiration for their next studio opus. The journey led them to the village of Wissant in North France, where upon discovering vast lands still decimated by and littered with carnage from World War II battles invoked the proper stimulation the band needed to create Mass V.

In May the band entered the expansive La Chapelle Studio to create Mass V, assisted by engineer Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Neurosis, Melvins, Sleep, Swans, etc.) to bring their sonic attack to its most crushing. With possibly their most inspired material to date in hand, brandishing forty minutes of material through four movements, they utilized the photography of Stefaan Temmerman and the talents of Webecameaware for the layout, AMENRA completed their vision and are preparing for the world to hear this sonic tour de force.

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AMENRA Share Opening Track From Neurot Recordings Debut

As AMENRA prepare for the worldwide disbursement of their newest studio full-length, Mass V, on November 27th via Neurot Recordings, today they share the opening track from the album, “Dearborn And Buried”.

The band has also unveiled the cover of the LP version of Mass V, which will differ from the CD. The vinyl edition will bear different artwork than the CD, as well as additional sounds and alternative mixes of the songs as handled by Billy Anderson and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, Scorn, working with SUNN0))), Earth, Isis and more...).

Delve into “Dearborn And Buried,” as well as the lyrics to the more than nine-minute-long anthem, in addition to the three short AMENRA tour documentaries captured by Jeroen Mylle while on the road with the band over recent months, the artwork for the LP version of Mass V and more, RIGHT HERE.

AMENRA Live And Festival Performances:

10/27/2012 Hard Club – Porto, Portugal @ Amplifest[ [info]

11/03/2012 Leeds University Union – Leeds, UK @ Damnation Festival [info]

12/01/2012 Db’s – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival [info]

12/22/2012 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium *record release show [info]

2/10/20102 De Kreun – Kortrijk, Belgium [info]

4/19/2013 Patronaat Church – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival [info]

5/05/2013 Klub Firlej – Wroclaw, Poland @ Asymmetry Festival [info]

Since their 1999 inception, AMENRA have infiltrated underground music communities with their grand style of organic sludge/doom metal through a plethora of LPs, EPs, and splits with Hessian, TBHR, Oathbreaker and others, through a variety of independent labels including Anvil Of Fury, Sound Devastation, Hypertension and their own Church of Ra imprint. Intense touring and festival appearances across Europe and beyond helped these diverse recordings transform into the live setting, captivating visual effects always an imperative element of the band’s on-stage dominance.

Neurot announced AMENRA’s induction into their clan in July of 2011, which was followed directly by the band’s second European tour in support of the mighty Neurosis, the bond between both parties strengthening. Last November the members of AMENRA wandered through the countries neighboring Belgium in search of the perfect inspiration for their next studio opus. The journey led them to the village of Wissant in North France, where upon discovering vast lands still decimated by and littered with carnage from World War II battles invoked the proper stimulation the band needed to create Mass V.

In May the band entered the expansive La Chapelle Studio to create Mass V, assisted by engineer Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Neurosis, Melvins, Sleep, Swans, etc.) to bring their sonic attack to its most crushing. With possibly their most inspired material to date in hand, brandishing forty minutes of material through four movements, they utilized the photography of Stefaan Temmerman and the talents of Webecameaware for the layout, AMENRA completed their vision and are preparing for the world to hear this sonic tour de force.

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AMENRA Prepare For Autumn Release Of Neurot Recordings Debut

Belgium’s renowned sludge ministers AMENRA are preparing for the worldwide disbursement of their newest studio full-length Mass V this Autumn, their first for Neurot Recordings.

Since their 1999 inception, AMENRA have infiltrated underground music communities with their grand style of organic sludge/doom metal through a plethora of LPs, EPs, and splits with Hessian, TBHR, Oathbreaker and others, through a variety of independent labels including Anvil Of Fury, Sound Devastation, Hypertension and their own Church of Ra imprint. Intense touring and festival appearances across Europe and beyond helped these diverse recordings transform into the live setting, captivating visual effects always an imperative element of the band’s on-stage dominance.

Neurot announced AMENRA’s induction into their clan in July of 2011, which was followed directly by the band’s second European tour in support of the mighty Neurosis, the bond between both parties strengthening. Last November the members of AMENRA wandered through the countries neighboring Belgium in search of the perfect inspiration for their next studio opus. The journey led them to the village of Wissant in North France, where upon discovering vast lands still decimated by and littered with carnage from World War II battles invoked the proper stimulation the band needed to create Mass V.

In May the band entered the expansive La Chapelle Studio to create Mass V, assisted by engineer Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Neurosis, Melvins, Sleep, Swans, etc.) to bring their sonic attack to its most crushing. With possibly their most inspired material to date in hand, brandishing forty minutes of material through four movements, they utilized the photography of Stefaan Temmerman and the talents of Webecameaware for the layout, AMENRA completed their vision and are preparing for the world to hear this sonic tour de force.

Mass V will be released in Europe on November 26th and in North America on November 27th, amidst an ongoing string of tour and festival performances continually being booked across Europe for the coming months, including Amplifest, Damnation and Le Guess Who festivals before the year’s end, and already confirming sets at Roadburn and Asymmetry next year. AMENRA have also announced that the record release show for Mass V on December 22nd – an anticipated event which sold out in record time as soon as it was announced – will now be broadcast live online for their fans across the globe not able to attend the event. More details of this can be found HERE. The band have just confirmed a show on February 10th at De Kreun in Kortrijk, Belgium, so fans who missed out on tickets for the release show will be given another chance to see them. Show info is available HERE.

AMENRA have also just posted three short tour documentaries, filmed and artistically presented by Jeroen Mylle, captured on the road with the band over recent months. View all three mini-films and much more on the band’s new album AT THIS LOCATION.

AMENRA Live And Festival Performances:
10/27/2012 Hard Club – Porto, Portugal @ Amplifest[ [info]
11/03/2012 Leeds University Union – Leeds, UK @ Damnation Festival [info]
12/01/2012 Db's – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival [info]
12/22/2012 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium *record release show [info]
2/10/20102 De Kreun – Kortrijk, Belgium [info]
4/19/2013 Patronaat Church – Tilburg, Netherlands @ Roadburn Festival [info]
5/05/2013 Klub Firlej – Wroclaw, Poland @ Asymmetry Festival [info]

AMENRA will be re-releasing their Mass III DVD this month through their online store; preorder your copy NOW.

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AMENRA: First LP For Neurot Recordings Completed; Release Dates Set

Before the Summer, Neurot Recordings proudly announced that AMENRA had entered La Chapelle studio to record their fourth full-length, Mass V, produced by Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Neurosis, Om, Swans and so many more). Now that the mammoth recording is complete and the band is proud to reveal that the album will be released on November 27th in North America and November 26th in Europe.

Exclusive video footage of the recording process has been unveiled for those diehards across the lands who greatly anticipate this new chapter in the AMENRA’s career, and first as an official part of the Neurot family. View the visual documentation AT THIS LOCATION or below.

AMENRA have also announced a record release show in their home country Belgium on December 22nd, and with that, the promise of more tour dates to be announced shortly.

Expect more rituals from the Church of Ra in the coming months.

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AMENRA Enter Studio; Neurot Recordings Debut Begins To Take Shape

Neurot Recordings proudly announce that AMENRA have entered the studio this week to record their fourth full-length, Mass V.

Producing the record is the brilliant Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Neurosis, Om, Swans, etc.) and for the setting, La Chapelle, an old chapel now turned professional studio, in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes. For AMENRA this is the ideal ground to record Mass V, their "heaviest and slowest album to this day" as per vocalist Colin Van Eeckhout. He continues to reveal how this record was "the hardest one for us to write and record, it nearly killed us. it's the album we said we were never going to write." Expect an absolutely crushing release from them later this year on their new home, Neurot Recordings.

As previously reported, Neurot Recordings founder and Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till commented "I am eagerly awaiting the sonically induced spirit quest that will be Mass V at the Church of Ra.” - and so are we!

Check out this promotional video for the band's Russian and Ukranian tour which kicks off on May 16th in St Petersburg below.

AMENRA Russia/Ukraine May Tour:

5/16/2012 Arktika - St. Petersburg, Russia

5/17/2012 Plan B - Moscow, Russia

5/18/2012 Tarantul - Voronezh, Russia

5/19/2012 Podzemka - Rostov, Russia

5/20/2012 Zhara - Kharkov, Ukraine

5/21/2012 Bingo - Kiev, Ukraine

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AMENRA Sign With Neurot Recordings; European Live Dates With Neurosis Approach

It is with great honor for Neurot Recordings to announce the label's official signing of Belgian sorcerers AMENRA.

A perfect fit to Neurot's already organically soulful and cerebrally crushing roster, AMENRA's newly completed fourth full-length album,Mass V, will be released in the coming months, with a confirmed street date and more details to be brought forth shortly.

AMENRA have pulverized audiences abroad since the turn of the 21st century via an arsenal of split and mini-releases, as well as three full-length albums to date. They have proven themselves in the live setting as well, having toured with the likes of Neurosis, Converge, Pelican, Starkweather, Battlefields and countless others, and via notable performances at massive festivals including Roadburn, Eurosonic and more.

Stated AMENRA in a collective statement about signing with Neurot: "Since day one, and for a decade now, we found ourselves in a cold and lonely place. Until our paths crossed with the Neurot family. A warm embrace. We believe now we have found a place we can call our own, and with great pride. We sincerely see this as the opportunity for us to prove to the world that our being here on Earth, In time, will not go unnoticed, but will be well spent. Mass V. We will make it mean something, always and everywhere."

Neurot Recordings founder and Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till also made an official statement on the label's choice to bringAMENRA into the Neurot family. "For us in Neurosis and Neurot Recordings life has always been a quest searching for something deeper, something more meaningful, something that moves one to feel something real in a world full of soul killing triviality. AMENRA is deep, and real, and moving, and incredibly inspiring. Their family is dedicated and like minded in a way that we relate to completely. Kindred spirits. Their musical and visual aesthetic is pure and runs through everything they do, their music, their words, their graphics, their visuals, and print media. That unspoken spiritual core that we seek, weaves throughout their being. It is with great honor that we welcome them to our home, and to our label. There are few in our tribe in this world, and we are definitely stronger when we are together. I am eagerly awaiting the sonically induced spirit quest that will be Mass V at the Church of Ra."

In related news, AMENRA will be supporting Neurosis once again on several live dates in Germany, Austria and France over the coming week, for the first time with the two artists now as official labelmates. Stated the band on the upcoming performances: "Our second tour with Neurosis. A restless heart. An unpredictable force of nature. Neurosis broke down walls and used those stones to build a path that now AMENRA is able to walk. Without them we might not even have existed at all. Who knows. The recognition we get might be more substantial to us than breath, a light that fills the dark chambers of our hearts, until it will be gone. I expect and wish the shows to be out of this vvorld. We will try and guide the sparks, stoking and tending the flames, where Neurosis will set the bonfire alight. And each night, together, we will build that pyre. It will always be a godsgift and honour. for us to share stages with them. And travel with them, in silence. In everything we give thanks."

Check out a flyer for the upcoming European concerts, live footage of AMENRA and more at this location.

NEUROSIS with AMENRA July 2011:

7/17/2011 Grünspan- Hamburg, Germany [info]

7/18/2011 Conne Island - Leipzig, Germany [info]

7/19/2011 Arena - Wien, Austria [info]

7/23/2011 La Machine De Moulin Rouge - Paris, France [info]

Stay tuned for more live updates on AMENRA and the upcoming monolith that shall be Mass V in the weeks ahead.

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