Essex’s own death metallers BEYOND EXTINCTION have released their brand new single and music video for ‘Winter Sun‘.
The devastating new track represents a fresh approach for the four-piece deathcore demolishers, putting their trademark sludgy breakdowns to the ultimate test and letting their creativity run wild in new directions.
On the new single, vocalist Jasper Harmer comments:
“We’ve allowed ourselves to explore more creatively with this song, relying less on the onslaught of heavy, low tuned riffs to convey the weight of the track. Danny drew a more atmospheric card, providing a canvas for the story and lyrics of a god abandoning his children to create a piece that is as acutely heavy as it is spacious.
‘Winter Sun’ delivers a sound which expands over the approaching direction that the band is going to take, widening the borders of the down-tuned, slow sound at the core of Beyond Extinction while nailing home our heaviest moments in its execution.”
Watch the ‘Winter Sun’ music video here.
Stream ‘Winter Sun’ here.
2025 will not only be the year that sees the fruits of their labour come into fruition in the form of BEYOND EXTINCTION‘s long-awaited anticipated debut album, but they’ll also be hitting the road and coming to a town near you. As well as performing some select headline dates, the deathcore warriors will also be supporting instrumental three-piece The Grey, and embarking on three not-to-be-missed co-headline shows with blackened deathcore southerners, To Obey A Tyrant.
Sat 3rd May – READING Face Bar
Sat 10th May – MANCHESTER Stage and Radio
Fri 30th May – CAMBRIDGE The Six-Six*
Thu 3rd July – SOUTHEND Fickle Pickle
Fri 1st Aug – MANCHESTER Aatma^
Sat 2nd Aug – GUILDFORD The Holroyd Arms^
Sun 3rd Aug – NORWICH B2^
*supp. The Grey
^co-headline w/ To Obey a Tyrant
Get your tickets here.
t’s not been an easy journey for the Essex based four-piece, with a long and difficult recovery for the band after losing founding member and lead guitarist Zach Scott in 2023 at just 20 years old. 2024 saw the childhood school friends put together a memorial show, titled Never Forget Your Own, a moniker Zach had tattooed on him, at London’s Underworld in celebration of a life well-lived. The stellar line-up of bands, of which Zach had been involved with in one form or another, consisted of headliners Osiah, Beyond Extinction, Godeater, Bitterwood, Existentialist, Dygora, Glower, and How Long You Been Driving. All proceeds were split and donated to three mental health and suicide prevention charities: Help Musicians, Young Minds, and Campaign Against Living Miserably.
In the aftermath and through sheer determination, passion, and the addition of guitarist Danny Russel, who joins Jasper Harmer [vocals], Jude Bennett [guitars], and Niall Ali [drums], death metallers BEYOND EXTINCTION have risen to the challenge. After countless UK tours, festival appearances and two stellar EPs, The Fatal Flaws of Humankind [2021] and Nothing More Wretched [2023], their first full length arrives this autumn.
“Danny didn’t just fill a space in the band, he set a new course for us,” confesses drummer Niall Ali. “His vision didn’t just complement ours, it expanded it, adding new colours to our music’s soundscape. You can feel his fingerprints in the icy tension of ‘Winter Sun’, his rhythmic intricacies are interwoven through the album’s atmosphere.” Danny Russel adds, “Before I joined the band officially, I had written ‘Winter Sun’ in full and presented it to the guys. They loved it so much it didn’t need revising. I am very happy to have later been involved in the remainder of the writing process.”
Creating a visually compelling backdrop to their music is a constant element in BEYOND EXTINCTION’s song-writing, embossing their lyrics and ambient soundscapes with personal horrors and realisations. Dense and asphyxiatingly heavy, their music offers a hazed vision of pain and loss, introspection and anthropy, and hindsight and foresight into a world that was not built for us.
Vocalist and lyricist Jasper Harmer talks about the process of bringing his dystopian but scarily familiar world to life: “My lyrics are the amalgamation of all the ills of our cities and urban living projected onto a bleak and damning story of our future. In some ways it is a grim and depressing prediction of our civilisation’s final destination. Truly, this city is the place where all my hate has come to live. Truly, I hope we never end up there.”
BEYOND EXTINCTION are:
Jasper Harmer – vocals
Jude Bennett – guitars
Danny Russel – guitars
Niall Ali – drums
WEBSITE: beyondextinction.online
LISTEN: open.spotify.com/artist/38vt0CiehYk43Nu6xcfKXk?si=Eig0NKcXTZOd2R-g24R5Sw
INSTAGRAM: @beyondextinction
FACEBOOK: @BeyExt
TWITTER: @beyExt
