Meridian Veil will release Forgotten Sun on 22 January through Season of Mist, and the idea behind it is older than most of the bands the four of them are known for.
Danny Marino played guitar in The Agonist and met Matt McGachy, now the singer in Cryptopsy, in Montreal in the early two thousands. Dylan Gowan, who drums in Seven Spires, and Raphael Weinroth-Browne, the cellist from Leprous, complete it. Marino says he wanted this band to be deeply emotional from the start, more than twenty years ago.
The record is a dystopia told from the wrong side. The narrator is an artificial superintelligence built to serve the greater good, and the eight songs follow what that turns into. Technology is evolving far faster than our species, Marino says, and soon we will be completely disconnected from it.
The Watcher opens the album and runs six minutes and forty seconds, with the cello doing the work a second guitar would usually do. Christopher Kells, who played bass in The Agonist, wrote and directed the film for it.
Eight tracks, forty five minutes.