Born Again, the Crucial Blast Records debut from France’s OVERMARS, will see it's North American release on September 22nd.

According to a press release: Born Again descends deep into themes of self-immolation, horror, and rebirth, and becomes a harrowing narrative as it moves through a series of different musical moods. '

Overmars had already established their atmospheric, electronically-tainted sludge-metal sound on their excellent 2005 album Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo and all of the previous splits with DONEFOR, ESCARIOTE, FUGUE and ICOS, but Born Again is something new from the band; this forty-minute epic moves from pulverizing industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of processed guitar and fearsome guttural roars intermixed with captivating female vocals, to passages of haunting dark ambience and bottom-heavy churn, and a magisterial finale that stretches gloom-ridden moody riffage, vaporous electronics and dramatic male/female singing across the song's final fifteen minutes, a tense, slow buildup that erupts into an earth-shaking crescendo of super heavy riffage.

Immensely bleak and heavy, Born Again brings together elements of GODFLESH's industrial pummel, black metal, tribal dirge, the violent nihilism of SWANS, doomy death metal, and even some black strains of psychedelia into a monumental metallic black hole.

Audio samples from Born Again can be found here.

In support of this colossal release, Overmars will be touring the US for the first time this month. The band will be touring alongside Translation Loss Records artists BATTLEFIELDS from mid-August through early September.

Dates include:

August

14 - 31st Street Pub - Pittsburgh, PA
15 - Kyber Bar - Philadelphia, PA
16 - Club Europa - Brooklyn, NY
17 - Cherry Street Station - Wallingford, CT
18 - O’Brien’s - Boston, MA (with VOYAGER)
19 - The Pirate House - Ithaca, NY
20 - Westcott Community Center - Syracuse, NY
21 - Roboto Project - Pittsburgh, PA
22 - Dayton Dirt Collective - Dayton, OH
23 - Mix Tapes - Grand Rapids, MI
24 - Cobra Lounge - Chicago, IL
25 - Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA
26 - The Uptown Bar - Minneapolis, MN
27 - Mix Tapes - Moline, IL
28 - Fubar - St. Louis, MO
30 - Dragon's Den - New Orleans, LA
31 - The Atlantic - Gainesville, FL

September

1 - Square One - Greensboro, NC
2 - The Side Bar - Baltimore, MD
3 - The Charleston - Brooklyn, NY