{"id":2025934,"date":"2025-09-16T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2025934"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:37:03","slug":"karnivool-officially-announce-first-new-album-in-12-years-in-verses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/karnivool-officially-announce-first-new-album-in-12-years-in-verses\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnivool Officially Announce First New Album In 12 Years, \u2018In Verses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After more than a decade of waiting, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/karnivool\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karnivool;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Karnivool<\/a> fans can finally breathe: the Perth prog titans have announced their long-anticipated fourth studio album, <em>In Verses<\/em>, set for release on 6th February 2026 via Cymatic Records \/ Sony Music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To mark the occasion, the band have dropped brand new single dubbed \u2018Aozora\u2019, a live favourite from the band\u2019s recent Aussie tour inspired by the Japanese word for \u201cblue sky\u201d. Frenetic and unrelenting, the track dives into themes of escape and the search for freedom.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Karnivool \u2013 \u2018Aozora\u2019<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe whole theme for that song is escaping, or waiting to escape,\u201d frontman Ian Kenny explains. \u201cTrying to find freedom amongst the complications of just being human. We\u2019re so weird, you know? Sometimes you end up with more questions than answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Born out of years of experimentation with longtime producer Forrester Savell, <em>In Verses<\/em> is a culmination of Karnivool\u2019s past 12 years: ten tracks capturing frustration, catharsis and rediscovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With three platinum-certified records already under their belt (<em>Themata<\/em>, <em>Sound Awake<\/em> and ARIA #1 <em>Asymmetry<\/em>), Karnivool have become one of Australia\u2019s most influential heavy exports, building a global reputation with shows everywhere from London\u2019s Roundhouse to festivals like Download and Hellfest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>In Verses<\/em> now marks the next chapter for a band whose music has always thrived on complexity, patience, and reward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The countdown to February is officially on. Til then, you can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/karnivool.lnk.to\/inverses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pre-order the forthcoming record here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pre-order the forthcoming record here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Further Reading<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/karnivool-postpone-sydney-canberra-shows-064637451.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karnivool Postpone Sydney &amp; Canberra Shows;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Karnivool Postpone Sydney &amp; Canberra Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/karnivool-share-long-awaited-single-042025204.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karnivool Share Long-Awaited New Single \u2018Drone\u2019 Ahead Of National Tour;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Karnivool Share Long-Awaited New Single \u2018Drone\u2019 Ahead Of National Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/love-letter-record-verticoli-karnivool-033203651.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Love Letter To A Record: Verticoli On Karnivool\u2019s \u2018Sound Awake\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Love Letter To A Record: Verticoli On Karnivool\u2019s \u2018Sound Awake\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/news\/karnivool-officially-announce-first-new-album-in-12-years-in-verses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karnivool Officially Announce First New Album In 12 Years, \u2018In Verses\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Karnivool Officially Announce First New Album In 12 Years, \u2018In Verses\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Music Feeds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Music Feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade of waiting, Karnivool fans can finally breathe: the Perth prog titans have announced their long-anticipated fourth studio album, In Verses, set for release on 6th February 2026 via Cymatic Records \/ Sony Music. To mark the occasion, the band have dropped brand new single dubbed \u2018Aozora\u2019, a live favourite from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2025935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[373034,373035,373033,359773],"class_list":["post-2025934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cymatic-records","tag-fourth-studio-album","tag-karnivool","tag-verses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Karnivool-Officially-Announce-First-New-Album-In-12-Years-\u2018In.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}