TesseracT have signed to Nuclear Blast and will release an EP, ARC_ONE: Obscura, on 5 March. The first of its three songs, Crucible, is out now.
Three songs instead of an album is the point rather than the limitation. "We are trying to approach this a little bit differently, in terms of not just dropping a full album," Dan Tompkins told the announcement. "We are trying to work with how music is consumed in general, but also trying to deliver what we think our fans really want from us: a captivating story and a good concept."
It carries on from War Of Being. "That was very much about ego and the masks that we wear," Tompkins said. "I think, for me, it is very much about understanding what is left when you have exposed who you really are." Crucible he describes as a song about suppressing yourself in order to belong.
The band produced it with Lewis Johns, who also mixed and mastered. They take it to North America in January with Entheos and Sunborn, then to Britain and Germany in March, with Brixton Academy on 13 March.