{"product_id":"loss","title":"Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoss is the fifth studio album by Portuguese masked collective Gaerea and their debut for Century Media, released on March 20, 2026 after being recorded in early 2025 with long‑time producer Miguel Tereso at Demigod Recordings. Often described as a new chapter for the band, it moves their sound from dense, anguished post‑black metal toward something more overtly melodic and modern: huge, layered guitars, post‑metal atmospherics, metalcore‑adjacent breakdowns, and, for the first time, prominent clean vocal hooks and piano passages. Over its tracklist (which includes “Luminary,” “Submerged,” “Hellbound,” “LBRNTH,” “Cyclone,” “Summon,” and closer “Stardust”), the album drifts between blast‑beat ferocity and slow‑burn, stadium‑scale crescendos, trading some of the intricate compositional twists of earlier records like Coma for more streamlined, anthem‑driven structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrically, Loss dives into grief, depression, self‑erasure, and the push‑pull between wanting to disappear and needing to connect, using water, storms, and labyrinths as recurring metaphors. Songs like “Submerged” and “Cyclone” focus on emotional drowning rather than literal peril, while “Hellbound” and “LBRNTH” frame self‑destructive spirals as a kind of voluntary descent, and “Stardust” closes the record with a piano‑led, melancholic meditation on mortality and insignificance. Critical reaction has been sharply split: some writers hail it as an intense, immersive, surprisingly melodic evolution that pushes Gaerea toward a genre‑of‑one space in post‑black metal, while others see the move toward big choruses and modern metal tropes as a step down from the more labyrinthine extremity of Coma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album - Digipak","offer_id":53323025580346,"sku":"37701","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Limited Black Vinyl + Autographed Card","offer_id":53323025678650,"sku":"37702","price":35.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-04-15_at_3.15.38_PM.jpeg?v=1776280708","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/loss","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}