08 January 2020
Due to a huge demand by the fans, Polaris have released the video and track, ‘Hypermania’, taken from their second studio album, The Death Of Me, out on February 21 via Resist Records.
‘Hypermania’ was introduced to the band’s live set at the end of last year and are stoked to officially release it ahead of their appearance at Unify Festival this weekend. The Death Of Me Australian Tour supported by Wage War, Crystal Lake and Alpha Wolf kicks off next month with Melbourne, Brisbane and 1st Adelaide show all sold out. The remaining shows are selling fast and tickets won’t last long.
POLARIS
THE DEATH OF ME AUSTRALIAN TOUR
FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY: THE GOV, ADELAIDE LIC AA [sold out]
SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY: THE FORUM, MELBOURNE 18+ [sold out]
SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY: ASTOR THEATRE, PERTH LIC AA
MONDAY 24 FEBRUARY: THE GOV, ADELAIDE LIC AA
FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY: ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY LIC AA
SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY: THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE 18+ [sold out]
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19 December 2019
Polaris’ Adelaide show at The Gov is now sold out and due to popular demand, the Sydney metalcore outfit have added a 2nd and final Adelaide show to their The Death Of Me Australian Tour supported by Wage War, Crystal Lake and Alpha Wolf on Monday 24 February at The Gov. Tickets are on sale now.
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14 November 2019
Sydney metalcore outfit Polaris announce the details of their highly anticipated second studio album, The Death Of Me, out February 21, 2020, via Resist Records. Those eager to see Polaris live won’t have to wait long as they announce The Death Of Me Australian Tour supported by Wage War, Crystal Lake and Alpha Wolf in February 2020.
It’s been two years since Polaris released their ARIA-nominated, Top 10 debut, The Mortal Coil which introduced the group to legions of fans around the country and, thanks to an extensive international touring schedule, the world. When it came time to making their new album, The Death Of Me, the Sydney outfit knew they had a tall order on their hands.
“We wanted to walk a line between maintaining what’s defined our band and brought people to our music in the first place, while trying to write for ourselves and keep ourselves interested,” begins drummer Daniel Furnari, one of the main songwriters in the unit. “Being our second full-length, we knew it was important for us to surprise the listener as well – nobody wants to hear the same record twice. We wanted to give them things they wouldn’t expect, take them to new places, but also for it to be definitively a Polaris record, building on what we’ve been working towards.”
Polaris returned to the house in the small South Coast town of Mollymook where they made The Mortal Coil, converting it into a temporary studio. The familiar surrounds acted as something of a refuge after the high-pressure claustrophobia of touring. Accompanying the band was their front of house sound engineer, Lance Prenc, and long-time friend Scott Simpson (of Melbourne band Alpha Wolf), both of whom co-produced the album with the band. They tried a few new approaches to song writing, with tracks such as the anthemic first single, ‘Masochist’ starting life as a vocal melody, around which the riffs were built, as opposed to the other way around.
As the main lyric writer in Polaris, Furnari warns that The Death Of Me contains some of the bleakest material he’s ever penned, with recurring lyrical motifs and ideas floating throughout. “We’ve experienced more of the world and gone out of our comfort zone, and I think that’s audible in the music,” says Furnari. “I think a lot of things people enjoyed about The Mortal Coil we’ve managed to retain, but we’ve stretched the envelope further in every direction of what we consider to be our sound. I just don’t think we could have thought of most of this stuff two years ago.”
In the two years since The Mortal Coil, Polaris embarked on three sold-out headlining tours of Australia, as well as supporting Architects and Parkway Drive around the country; five runs throughout Europe (including a series of arena shows supporting Architects and a slew of high-profile summer festival spots); three separate US tours; not to mention performing at the Download Festival and Unify Gathering in Australia. Somewhere in there, the quintet found time to write The Death Of Me.