{"product_id":"822603018776","title":"EMPTINESS – NOWHERE SPEAKS (LTD) - CD •","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC: 822603018776 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabel: SEASON OF MIST \u003cbr\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: July 17, 2026\u003cbr\u003eIn stock items ship within 48 hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD in Jewel case with 10-page folded booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in Brussels in 1998, \u003cstrong\u003eEMPTINESS\u003c\/strong\u003ehave spent over two decades refusing the conventions of extreme music, moving through black and death metal, avant-garde experimentation, and claustrophobic minimalism to build a body of work that consistently resists genre enclosure. \u003cstrong\u003eNowhere Speaks\u003c\/strong\u003e is their seventh full-length and their most immersive statement yet, released through Season of Mist.\u003cbr\u003eThe album descends into a dimension removed from all human trace, a place governed by its own silent logic, indifferent to the listener's presence and unconcerned with offering entry. Recorded almost entirely live in the studio after four years of preparation, the music carries the tension and physicality of performance taken to its absolute limit: dense, textured, and unrelenting in the way it closes in. The conceptual architecture is precise. \u003cstrong\u003eNowhere Speaks\u003c\/strong\u003e opens exactly where Nothing But The Whole (2014) ended, picking up mid-riff from that album's cult abrupt conclusion, and closes with its opening riff, forming a deliberate loop between the two records. After the distortion-free, French-language austerity of Vide (2021), the return to weight and intensity here is total. Identity dissolves across these ten tracks. Scale becomes irrelevant. The music does not communicate so much as exert pressure, advancing through sensation rather than narrative, through the awareness of something vast that neither acknowledges nor accommodates the listener.\u003cbr\u003eForces converge, collide, and dissolve in ways that resist comprehension, reflecting the band's central idea that nothing exists, yet everything does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of PORTAL, DEATHSPELL OMEGA, NEUROSIS, ORANSSI PAZUZU.\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Olivier J.L.W.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNothing but the Whole (Part 2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Threat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNowhere Speaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDarkness Commands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWords to Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Must See All\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen the Whole Arrives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Clash of Forces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNext in Line\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll for Nothing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"SEASON OF MIST","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44519139704931,"sku":"822603018776","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/2553\/7123\/files\/image_e46fcdc0-74c0-4858-b3ab-477f97d4904c.jpg?v=1787796975","url":"https:\/\/lunchboxrecords.com\/products\/822603018776","provider":"Lunchbox Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}