Bands are like sharks: if they stop swimming, they die. Fail to drip-feed product and content for even short period, states modern music industry wisdom, and you’ll be overtaken by younger, hungrier, hairier prospects. All of this, it seems, is news to Karnivool. Not only are the Australian prog-metallers about to release a new album with tracks that average a TikTok-unfriendly seven minutes, they’ve also made us wait 12 years to hear it.
“It’s an all-encompassing thing to get a Karnivool album across the line,” guitarist Drew Goddard says, with the laser-cutter stare that is his default facial expression. “The process has never been easy for us. Every time we write a song, it’s a strange, mysterious, unique challenge.”
