The Copenhagen, Denmark based post metal ensemble LATE NIGHT VENTURE has a long history which now continues with the release of the quintet’s fifth album ‘V: Bones Of The Extinct’ on March 17th 2023 through Trepanation Recordings and Vinyltroll Records. Today, the quintet shares the first single from the album in the shape of the ultra heavy ‘Mammut’ showcasing the band’s bleak aesthetics and well defined songwriting while unfolding the album theme of humankind and its future on planet earth.
Singer/guitarist and one of the band’s two lyricists Michael Falk elaborates on the song:
“‘Mammut’ was named ‘Mammut’ before the lyrics were written, because the riffs are heavy and grandiose. Then the words came to me from the conception of the mammoth: "Build with the bones of the extinct; waiting to fall", The mammoth was a magnificent beast, which became prey for humans, as it was able to optimize our living conditions, and then it went extinct. This type of transaction takes place all the time. So the ‘bones of the extinct’ is the structure, and ‘Waiting to fall’, because this structure always demands resources, which most likely cannot be extracted again.”
LATE NIGHT VENTURE has just announced four March dates alongside fellow Danes sludge metal trio Dirt Forge and post hardcore-combo Kollapse, including shows in Denmark, Norway and Germany.
LATE NIGHT VENTURE Live 2023:
- 22.03.23 - Vaterland, Oslo (NO)
- 23.03.23 - 1000Fryd, Aalborg (DK)
- 24.03.23 - Frølageret, Odense (DK)
- 25.03.23 - Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus, Berlin (DE)
LATE NIGHT VENTURE was formed in 2006 and released its eponymous debut album the same year. In 2012, the band commenced on its ‘cosmic trilogy’ with the sophomore album ‘Pioneers of Spaceflight’, followed by ‘Tychonians’ in 2015 and completed with ‘Subcosmos’ in 2019. Along the way, LATE NIGHT VENTURE has refined its post-metallic sound rounded off by the band’s poetic, Scandinavian clinging expression while playing more than 400 shows all over Europe.
While creating ‘V: Bones Of The Extinct’, LATE NIGHT VENTURE deliberately labored towards making the music more direct than before. This approach has resulted in six sharply cut compositions, where the post rock elements are downplayed and songwriting and riffs are the focal points. The band’s vivid and gritty aesthetics are intact and as always the band recorded the music live. As a whole, the album presents itself as the band’s most heavy, angry and focused work to date.
‘Bones Of The Extinct’ is a text excerpt establishing a framework for the album and its songs, which individually are images of unforeseen occurrences with irreversible consequences. The lyrics cast their gaze upon the world and can be characterized as grounded doomsday stories about conditions, which more or less concern all beings on the planet. This gaze is directed towards mankind and its nature, all our efforts in this world - and the consequences of our urge. ‘Bones Of The Extinct’ is an image of us watching the bones of ourselves; watching the consequences of our emotions, words and actions. One day, our history will lay scattered as the bones of the extinct - not least, if we remain on the current path determined by the greedy, prideful and vain.
‘V: Bones Of The Extinct’ is produced by Patrick Fragtrup in Sweet Silence Studios (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Mew), mastered by Brad Boatright in Audiosiege and carries artwork by Morten Grønnegaard. The album will be released on LP/CD/Digital and physical pre-orders will soon be available, while digital formats can be pre-saved HERE.