BOSSE-DE-NAGE Announce First Album In Eight Years, Streams "No Such Place"

San Francisco post-black metal lifers Bosse-de-Nage are back with their first new record in eight years and I personally could not be more stoked.

Bosse-De-Nage will release Hidden Fires Burn Hottest on March 6 via The Flenser, the label Bosse-de-Nage have called home for more than fifteen years. Bosse-de-Nage were among the first artists The Flenser ever partnered with, and today they hold the label's longest active relationship.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest was tracked by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker) at Atomic Garden East and mixed and mastered by Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture. The album was years in the making, with some material dating back to 2018. That extended gestation period gave the band something rare: time. Time to live with ideas, to revise without pressure, and to let songs find their own internal logic rather than forcing them into shape.

For the first time, lyricist Bryan Manning wrote all of his lyrics in advance, creating a surplus rather than racing deadlines. The result is a record that feels considered at every level — nothing rushed, nothing overstated. Compared to 2016's Further Still, which was defined by constraint and economy, this album embraces sprawl and strangeness.

That shift is especially clear on lead single "No Such Place." One of the oldest songs in the cycle, it has come to represent the emotional core of the album. As the band explains, it's "perhaps the closest realization of the original vision we had for this album," marking the moment where the limitations of Further Still were fully shed.

Hidden Fires Burn Hottest are available here.