It’s been a long time coming for AURORA fans, but the release of debut album Faith/Breaker has been even longer for the metalcore Midlanders.
Having been working on the release for two years, and entering the studio at the beginning of the year, the all-male five-piece have just one more week to wait until they can finally show everybody what they have become since their last release, EP Easily Broken.
Containing seven tracks, eight if you get your hands on the physical CD because there is a hidden bonus track, Faith/Breaker, out on October 23 via In At The Deep End Records, is not the usual child of the Birmingham-based band. Instead of licking metal with its sensual tongue, the boys, now fronted by Rhys Whitehouse, formally of WolveXhys, reach out and grab it by the throat, and choke the living day lights out of it. Faith/Breaker is a much darker sister for AURORA, but it is one that has been welcomed by the band and by their growing nationwide fan base.
Bassist Josh Hammond said the band had been itching to get the album out on the airwaves and feels like the risk of swapping from a frontwoman to a frontman was the right choice for the Birmingham-based band.
He said: “Since swapping vocalists, it feels like new life has been breathed into us again, and we’re very excited about what the future holds.
“Faith/Breaker, the first release with Rhys, is heavier compared to our previous material, but we aimed to set the bar higher for ourselves and I think we achieved that.”
Tracklisting for Faith/Breaker is:
- Perseverance
- Faith/Breaker
- Scriptures
- Purgatory
- Cold Hearts
- RainDance
- The Obsessor
- Tennessee Whisky (BONUS TRACK)
‘RainDance’, the first single from the album, was released to much fanfare on June 4 as old fans rejoiced at the fight back AURORA had gone through after losing former vocalist Jess Calvesbert. The new sound the quintet brought also won them new fans as they took their new material on weekend tour with Martyr Defiled.
The second single released from the album was title track ‘Faith/Breaker’. The video for ‘Faith/Breaker’ premiered on AltSounds on October 2.
Celebrating the release of the long-awaited first LP from AURORA, the band will be playing a hometown release show at Birmingham’s The Rainbow on November 14.
Tickets for the album release show, which cost £6, are available in advance from: https://kjmbookings.
The Facebook event for the show can be found here: https://www.facebook.
Support comes from In Depths, Incarcerate, This Memory, and Aletheia.
