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TesseracT Premiere New Single & Visualizer “Crucible” – Sign With Nuclear Blast

British progressive metal outfit TesseracT have announced their new EP, “ARC_ONE: Obscura”, for a March 5 release. The announcement also coincides with the band revealing their signing to Nuclear Blast.

“Crucible” serves as the first preview of this latest addition to the band’s discography, with an accompanying visualizer having just premiered online below. Frontman Dan Tompkins described the track as being about “the pressure that shapes and distorts the individual: the fact that we’re being constantly measured and judged and refined until our real, authentic self is just pushed further and further inside us and buried.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries

The upcoming offering will feature three tracks, with Tompkins providing some insight into the creative direction he and his bandmates have pursued this time around:

“We’re trying to approach this a little bit differently, in terms of not just dropping a full album. We’re trying to work with how music is consumed in general, but also trying to deliver what we think our fans really want from us: a captivating story and a good concept.”

He went on to elaborate:

“‘War Of Being‘ was very much about ego and the masks that we wear. The ending to that album was quite important, because it was about tearing the mask away, which is a key lyric from the album. As I, personally, made more music on the back of ‘War Of Being‘, I started to discover more about myself and my own being. I’ve started to really think about what direction we could take the next batch of music in, and I think, for me, it’s very much about understanding what’s left when you’ve exposed who you really are.”

The band handled co-production, mixing and mastering duties alongside producer Lewis Johns (Employed To Serve, Rolo Tomassi).

As previously reported, TesseracT have also lined up a North American headlining tour for early 2027, featuring Entheos and Sunborn as support acts:

01/07 New York City, NY – Irving Plaza
01/08 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
01/09 Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theatre
01/10 Toronto, ON – Concert Hall
01/12 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
01/13 Charlotte, NC – The Underground
01/15 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
01/16 Orlando, FL – Beacham
01/18 Houston, TX – House Of Blues
01/19 Dallas, TX – Echo
01/20 San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre
01/22 Phoenix, AZ – Nile Theater
01/23 Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco
01/24 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
01/26 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
01/27 Seattle, WA – Neptune
01/29 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
01/31 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall

TesseracT will additionally embark on a UK and European tour in March:

03/11 Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
03/13 London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
03/15 Koln, GER – Die Kantine
03/16 Frankfurt, GER – Batschkapp
03/18 Hamburg, GER – Markthalle
03/19 Leipzig, GER – Täubchenthal