Check out Imminence's surprise-dropped new single, First Light

Following the release of last month's epic The Sword That Never Bends single, violin-toting Swedish metallers Imminence have surprise-dropped another track, First Light.

The band have been hard at work in the studio crafting the follow-up to 2024's The Black. Speaking exclusively to Kerrang! recently, frontman Eddie Berg and guitarist Harald Barrett explained how that album's success fed into the creative process for their next step.

“The cycle of The Black shaped how this new album sounds and what the message is,” Harald revealed. “We wanted to step it up. We were very motivated to write an album that takes us to the next step, because The Black really put us on the map globally. With this album, I felt like there was a very big urge to take that to a new place, to bring Imminence to a new level, to go even further.”

“I feel like it’s a reaction to writing a record like The Black, because we allowed ourselves to go down a certain path and write with a certain style in mind,” added Eddie. “For me, this whole process has been a reaction to that, and about trying to do something different this time. It’s good to make yourself uncomfortable sometimes. Maybe a lot of people expected us to write another record like The Black, but that’s the last thing we wanted to do.”

Check out First Light below...

Catch Imminence live in 2027:

January

8 Gothenburg, SE - Filmstudios
9 Hamburg, DE - Sporthalle
10 TBA
12 Manchester, UK - Academy
13 London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton
15 Brussels, BE - Ancienne Belgique
16 Paris, FR - Zenith
17 Düsseldorf, DE - Mitsubishi Electric Halle
19 Offenbach am Main, DE - Stadthalle
20 Ludwigsburg, DE - MHPArena
21 Milan, IT - Alcatraz
22 TBA
24 Vienna, AT - Gasometer
25 Budapest, HU - Barba Negra Red Stage
26 TBA
27 Munich, DE - Zenth
29 Berlin, DE - Columbiahalle
30 Leipzig, DE - Haus Auensee
31 Warsaw, PL - Progresja

February

2 Helsinki, FI - Kulttuuritalo
4 TBA
5 Stockholm, SE - Fållan
6 Malmö, SE - Slagthuset

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