On this aptly titled full length album “Awaiting The Dawn”, Jonas Mattsson and Patrik Wallin deploy their very own sonic arsenal in dream-like haunting soundscapes where dynamic powerful bass lines and ghostly atmospheric electronic sounds wrap up the singer’s deep enigmatic vocals and sublimate them into addictive swirling suggestive choruses that rapidly stick to your mind.

While acknowledging musical influences as different and varied as FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, SKINNY PUPPY, ROME, SUICIDE, THE CURE or yet FRONT 242, CIRCUMPOLAR proudly present and impose their very own style of dark industrial / EBM, bringing us on a poignant and somber journey through space and time, exploring ancient rites, dreamlike landscapes of horrors and disasters, evoking memories from the past and the future, in a wasteland of twisted dreams…

With this true chef d’oeuvre of ultimate darkness, CIRCUMPOLAR invite us leaving our memories behind, transforming us into travelers in time, guiding our immortal souls through the horrors of chaos, the shadows of disintegration and celestial regeneration through hopes and fears… Groovy and gloomy!

CIRCUMPOLAR will remain… until the end of time.

The limited CD edition of the album comes out as a nice digipak double-CD with a 9-track bonus disc gathering the two “We Will Remain” and “Until The End Of Time” EP’s which appear on CD for the very first time.

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Avoiding all cliché traps where too many young bands fall nowadays and end up sounding too predictable by incorporating techno and other dance pop elements into their work, CIRCUMPOLAR stands strong on their sound identity roots, and opted for a solid focus on the 80’s golden age of electro goth wave music by deploying their sonic arsenal in dense haunting soundscapes where atmospheres and emotions prevail to club or radio compatibility; offering us this way a couple of songs clocking in at 7 minutes plus…

CIRCUMPOLAR manage to create enigmatic allusions of echoes from the past, the present and the future, and impose their very own style. This “We Will Remain” 5-track EP leads us on a poignant sonic journey that could have been the result of an illuminated jamming session of FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM singing on intricate early-SKINNY PUPPY tortured industrial arrangements filtered through FRONT 242’s powerful EBM assaults. Dreamlike and dark suggestive soundscapes created through analogue and digital machines, combined with sampled sounds and a deep and highly expressive baritone voice.

On this release, the duo explores ancient conceptions and metaphors of disintegration and regeneration, dreams and desires, hopes and fear, space and time…

“In a distant sky, the fire will burn…” CIRCUMPOLAR will remain… until the end of time.

[Cover artwork: Original painting on We Will Remain by Sara Westman]

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These first 4 songs are inspired by ancient rites and metaphors of the perpetual cycles of the stars, the sun and the moon and life in general. And they already clearly reflect CIRCUMPOLAR’s core influences, taking inspirations from 80`s bands like SKINNY PUPPY, THE KLINIK, FRONT 242, SISTERS OF MERCY or yet FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM.

The sounds and voices evoke haunting memories and nightmares from the darkest mists of our lives, reassembling into blistering lights of eternal desires. “Out of the dark, into the light, out of the light, into the dark, again…Fearless”.

No surprise that this great EP triggered the interest of a renowned label like Alfa Matrix, home of bands like FRONT 242, MENTALLO & THE FIXER, STAR INDUSTRY or yet UNTER NULL. And the best is yet to come!

“When the time is right, we will follow the sun, when the time is right, we will live forever… “

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