“He did ask, ‘Are you planning to replicate this live?’ He’d done a guest guitar part for a band who had trouble doing it”: Karnivool explain the 13-year wait for their new album – and why we have Guthrie Govan to thank for two of its standout sonics

Karnivool guitarist Mark Hosking plays his PRS guitar onstage amid dry ice and red and yellow stage lights.

Karnivool fans have learned to be very, very patient. In the decade waiting for a new album they’ve had sporadic tours and a few tasters of new material from the stage, but only one bona fide single – All It Takes – five years ago.

If the follow-up to 2013’s Asymmetry ever surfaced, some thought, surely there’d be no way it could deliver on such long-gestated expectation. Well, it has and it does.