Hear the new Without Waves album ahead of Friday’s release

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Exclusive: Without Waves release stream of their new album Lunar ahead of Friday’s official release date

Without Waves
Without Waves

Without Waves have released a full stream of their new album exclusively with Metal Hammer.

The Chicago outfit will officially launch Lunar on March 17 (Friday) but Metal Hammer readers can listen to the nine-track record in its entirely below.

Speaking about the meaning behind the album title, the band tell Metal Hammer: “Lunar stems from the original inspiration for the cover art, the tarot card for the moon. While it doesn’t have a clear meaning we keep finding reasons why it works for us.

“Eighteen is the moon’s number in tarot. Eighteen is also a theme in the visual art, inspired by the sum of three time signatures during an intro.

“One night, long before the lunar idea, brainstorming for an album title we counted all the pedals we were using as a band. It was 18. We didn’t notice these or all the other links until after we chose the name.”

Lunar is now available for pre-order from a variety of digital sites, while the band have a handful of North American dates planned over the coming weeks.

Without Waves also appear in the new edition of Metal Hammer which is out now. Also featured in the magazine are Mastodon, Rammstein, Ghost, Volbeat, Creeper, Machine Head and Behemoth frontman Nergal.

Without Waves Lunar tracklist

  1. Sewing together The Limbs
  2. Poetry in Putrid Air
  3. Us Against
  4. Never Know Quite Why
  5. Victorian Punishment
  6. EDMS
  7. Lost Art
  8. Fractals
  9. Memento Mori

Without Waves 2017 tour dates

Mar 25: Chicago Cobra Lounge, IL
Apr 28: Windsor The Windsor Beer Garden, ON
Apr 29: London 765 Old East Bar & Grill, ON
Apr 30: Toronto Coalition, ON

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.