Polaris, having revealed new single “Nightmare” yesterday, alongside recently revealing several European & UK tour dates with While She Sleeps and Bury Tomorrow, are pleased to announce two new headline shows for September 2023.
The shows will take place at the Academy, Dublin (Ireland), and at Limelight 2, Belfast (Northern Ireland). Tickets are on-sale now via the below links.
Ireland & Northern Ireland Live Shows 2023:
24/09 Ireland, Dublin – Academy (tickets)
25/09 Northern Ireland, Belfast – Limelight 2 (tickets)
Around these headline shows in September, Polaris will also be performing as special guests to While She Sleeps alongside Bury Tomorrow at London’s Alexandra Palace, and at venues in Paris, Brussels, Tilburg and Cologne.
European Tour Dates 2023:
23/09 UK, London – Alexandra Palace (low tickets)
27/09 FR, Paris, Le Bataclan
28/09 BE, Brussels, AB
29/09 NL, Tilburg, 013
30/09 DE, Cologne, Palladium (sold out)
Yesterday, Polaris revealed ferocious new single and video for “Nightmare”.
“Nightmare” is taken from the group’s impending new studio album “Fatalism”, due out on September 1st, 2023, via Resist Records in Australia and SharpTone Records for the rest of the world.
Featuring an equally ominous music video capturing the track’s dystopian themes, “Nightmare” also pays tribute to the recent devastating loss in the Polaris family, as drummer and lyricist Daniel Furnari explains: “We created this video with our friend Ben Wrigley, AKA Third Eye Visuals, who found some amazing locations and imagery to help us convey the track when paired with his brilliant editing skills. This was the second of three music videos we filmed with Ryan earlier this year. It has been a challenging and very emotional task to complete these videos in light of what has happened, but after careful discussion with his family we collectively felt that we wanted to share with the world the final things that Ryan created with us. We will proudly cherish the memories of him contained in this footage, and hope you will too”.
Watch the music video for “Nightmare” below.
“‘Nightmare’ is a reflection on the constant state of fear that the world at large seems to have lived in for much of the past couple of years – the feeling of waking up every day into a dystopia of uncertainty and anxiety where nothing really feels safe anymore”, shares Furnari. “The more I thought about it, the more I arrived at the conclusion that maybe this fear was the biggest thing we all had in common during a time of such great division – that our collective dread was our greatest unifier. That concept then really helped to shape the thematic direction of the rest of the record”.
“This was the second song that was written for the album”, Furnari continues, “and it started with that chorus melody, chords and lyrics, which I brought to the guys to build a song around. We fleshed it out on our first writing trip to the mountains and it developed into a very riff-heavy song, with the guitar being passed back and forth a lot between Rick and Ryan and all of us weighing in, so I think we all had an early attachment to it for that reason”.
Polaris will launch their new studio album “Fatalism” this September with a national Australian headline tour alongside August Burns Red, Kublai Khan TX and Currents, before embarking on an international run supporting While She Sleeps in the UK and Europe, performing at Aftershock 2023 and kicking off a North American headline run in October.
Pre-order & pre-save “Fatalism” here.
Tracklist:
01. Harbinger
02. Nightmare
03. Parasites
04. Overflow
05. With Regards
06. Inhumane
07. The Crossfire
08. Dissipate
09. Aftertouch
10. Fault Line
11. All in Vein
