Gemini Syndrome announced today through their Facebook page that their long-awaited album 3rd Degree – The Raising will be released on October 15th. Along with the announcement they released a new song called “Abandoned” the video for which can be seen below.
Drummer Brian Steele Medina said of the new song
“This was always one of my favorite heavy riffs that we had in the bank for a while. When the music was finally done, Aaron already had a concept in mind he had wanted to tackle for a while.”
Frontman Aaron Nordstrom discussed how personal the song is to him:
“At one point when I was working through some of my traumas, my kung fu teacher made me promise to write a song about my adoption and the rejection from my birth mother. This heavy beast of a song was the result. An anthem if you will that I control me. Not anyone or anything else.”
Gemini Syndrome vocalist Aaron Nordstrom said of the album:
“The album is about death and rebirth. Finding your true self and fostering its growth so as to help build the world better than we inherited it. In the process of this record, I made some major life choices. Mainly to stop killing myself slowly with alcohol. Two years without a drink, and a couple near-death experiences later, I think I have ample experience to talk about a subject as elusive as death.”
Drummer Brian Steele Medina added:
“The twist to the 3rd and ‘final’ degree, is that it’s not the end at all. Rather, it’s a rebirth contingent upon our growth and lessons learned from the suffering of our past mistakes. A spiritual growth that can only be attained through baptism by fire. A metaphorical, yet very real resurrection… the raising.”
Gemini Syndrome is currently on tour with A Killer’s Confession, Ovtlier, and Pushing Veronica.
Reintegration
IDK
Die With Me
Baptized in Fire
Children of the Sun
Abandon Mind
Broken Reflection
Sun Quad Eris
Best of Me
Absolution
Hold the Line
Where We Started From
Fiat Lux
