Today, Chaos Records announces September 15th as the international release date for Tideless‘ highly anticipated second album, Eye of Water, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The vinyl version will be a full double-album including an exclusive “hidden” track.
The Cenote, hidden underground pathways of water which lead to the underworld, or what some believe is the shared afterlife…
An anguished echo from beneath the surface, one that has bled in departure, but never forgotten in heart…
…amidst this, Tideless return, having completed their second full-length, Eye of Water. Featuring concurrent members of Xantam and Seraphic Disgust, what once was simply death-doom influenced by The Chasm and Disembowelment started to drift more into an experimental field come the release of Tideless‘ debut album, 2021’s Adrift in Grief, which Chaos Records eventually reissued. Heavily influenced by shoegaze (Alison’s Halo, Starflyer 59, Slowdive) and old prog (King Crimson and Magma), the band progressed into what they refer to as Shoegazing Death Metal.
Now, with Eye of Water, Tideless advance their sound more than ever with tranquil darkness and healing hallucinations. The album started production in 2021 at Toadhouse Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon and continued in Ramona Recording Studios in Ramona, California. Returning this time to produce, record, and engineer the album was Charlie Koryn (Morbid Angel, Incantation, Ascended Dead). Additional solos were laid down by Garrett Johnson (Wandering Mind) of VoidCeremony. But, more than these credits can convey, Eye of Water lays forth a rippling, incandescent landscape of majestic, triumphant shoegazing grief of death. More daring, more expansive, more shoegazing and yet also more deathly, Tideless‘ second album is a 75-minute journey that indeed underlines that Adrift in Grief was no one-trick pony – that this band of sonic alchemists are operating in a field truly their own, daunting in breadth and depth but infinitely rewarding in such boundless creativity. Open your heart and let the sun hit.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Fields at Dawn” HERE at Chaos Records‘ Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Current list of tour dates follows after the jump. Cover artwork, courtesy of Wang Yang, and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Tideless’ Eye of Water
1-1. Drowning (19° 40′ 49″ N, 99° 0′ 36″ W) [6:40]
1-2. Fields at Dawn [14:54]
1-3. Oblations for the Sun [18:52]
2-4. Laurel of Victory [10:36]
2-5. Lush.Serene.Dissolved [23:54]
current TIDELESS tour dates
July 22 – Oceanside, CA @ the Belching Beaver
August 24 – Long Beach, CA @ Chasm Fest 2023
September 30 – San Diego, CA with Arizmenda
*Dissolved in Grief Tour – with Skulls*
October 19 – Seattle, WA
October 20 – Portland, OR
October 21 – Chico, CA
October 22 – Berkeley, CA
October 23 – TBA
October 25 – Santa Cruz, CA
October 26 – Atascadero, CA
October 27 – Bakersfield, CA
October 28 – Los Angeles, CA
October 29 – La Jolla, CA
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