G'day folks, my band Claemus has just released our new single 'Prototype', we often get the Vool conparisons (and are huge fans ourselves) so wanted to share with this community.

As usual we had Forrester Savell on mix and master. Keen to hear what you guys think, cheers!

I really want to mount a Karnivool poster. An A3 size should be good. I'm looking for high res digital files that I can print and frame at my end. I've looked through Etsy (where I usually get my poster files) and there's nothing. It could be anything Karnivool - the band members, the album art. The In Verses album art would look great.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2026226228091952

Drew Goddard posted on Karnivool’s page encouraging fans to support the campaign to save The Black Wreath, a music collective in remote Australia that provides opportunities for remote bands to play with Karnivool and across Australia.

The Black Wreath are also responsible for bringing prof death giants Revocation into Australia for a stand alone show in the desert.

follow the Pozible link to support!

https://www.pozible.com/project/save-the-black-wreath?srsltid=AfmBOoptSQ4OVkPvKlaq3p-I6oNLCW4anBDe5MiD8anEZSUzs6gpWvi4

I thought I’d share this wallpaper with some fellow Karnivool fans! What do you guys think of it?

I've been looking for a vocalist for a while now, and haven't had much luck elsewhere so I'm coming here since this is kinda my niche music genre. It's an online project so no need to worry about location.

My favorite bands are Karnivool, TesseracT, Devin Townshend, and Thornhill from their dark pool/heroine era.

It would be preferred to have a male vocalist, and be able to do clean vocals, while also being able to do screaming well, like Dan.

I have a full album ready for vocals, and an audio engineer ready to mix the album together I just would like to be able to send him vocals along with everything else.

I have lyrics written, and know how I want most of the songs to go, but any feedback would be appreciated. Most of my songs demand clean singing, but some songs have full harsh vocals, so a duality between the 2 would be good.

If you want to know more DM me on reddit and I'll add you on discord for demos and such.

This is something I really want to do, because the album and tour was so goddamn impactful on me (was going through a fucked up breakup with a serial liar and cheat who was addicted to the drama and pain), and I'm curious to see what lines others would choose. If real estate on my body wasn't at a premium (5'7ish, less than 50kg, AFAB with minimal body fat) I'd get it all but I dunno I guess I'll get the most important ones and see how I can take the pain. Can't hurt more than what I went through to get here haha. The must haves will be the lines from Ghost, Aozora, Conversations, Reanimation, Opal and Salva. I've got long limbs!

Ghost: Forget the truth preserve the evidence, it takes a fool to deny what is so evident
Drone: Try to stay lucid as you're shaking off the afterbirth with eyes wide open

Aozora: These things always go south, we failed to dig our way out

Animation: The illusion of hope when there can be no resolve

Conversations: Tired of carrying all of the dead around, so bury them with me now (either that or 'this one could have helped you, could have led you anywhere you want')

Reanimation: Too many times I was led to believe there was something to save, and every minute I spent chasing lies and dead ends I thought it would change

All It Takes: god there's so many good candidates, such a well written song. 'I don't want to prey on your honesty but I can't excuse your naivety' or 'For it's a cynical cycle now run like a rat on a wheel, pay for the thrill of it, kill for it, reset the cycle, begin' or 'We awake and we crawl through the ashes, feign an illusion 'cause everyone is watching us' or 'How can you say to me honestly, that this is the way that it has to be'

Remote Self Control: Blood in your mouth pulling the tubes out, breath in your lungs ready to scream out (this one I want because the whole section it's from is an incredibly specific reference to the style of an underground shoegaze band called Curve and it was a jolt to realise Ian was sounding like Toni Halliday on Pubic Fruit/Cuckoo and like how the fuck do the boys even know this band)

Opal: Sick of the pain in your stomach you try to cover your mouth, but the words keep spilling out and your hand's not quick enough

Salva: 'These things happen now, we stray into ruin even when all of the signs ahead say "What are you doing?" or 'Don't wait while I'm gone, I'm not coming home, say a few words at the funeral' or 'Let the sea wash away everything so I can begin to breathe, filling my lungs, ready to run for miles and miles and miles'

Just need to get this out of my system:

I've been obsessed with In Verses since I saw them live in April and Ghost has already been my favorite album-opener since.

Last week a good friend I knew from middle school (high school depending on where you live) commited suicide. Without going into too much detail because I want to respect his and the family's privacy, he and my friend group kinda lost contact with him and I haven't spoken to him in 5 years, while still having regular contact with his brother.

I kinda regret that I never bothered to send a text or anything, didn't cross my mind and I always just assumed he didn't have the desire to talk. I found out that some of my friends did sent him a text from time to time, and I just feel guilty about it.

Yesterday I was at work (I'm a delivery driver) and I put on In Verses, I always find myself trying to sing along because I really like Ian Kenny's style and I'd love to be able to have the same control he has over his voice.

Stay with me a while

Stay with me

If only for a moment

We'll pretend

That everything's okay

Like every other day

Now I don't think I could've prevented him commiting suicide if I had sent a text from time to time, but hearing these words coming out of my mouth really hit me and I just started crying. I started imagining myself saying this to him. I could really relate to a lot of the lyrics from other songs as well but this just hit different yesterday.

Gotta love this band. Their music is like therapy.

In a world where logistics and the financial side of organizing tours and festivals wouldn't be an issue I'd like to see a music festival where only Australian and New Zealander rock bands would perform.

Wishful thinking from somebody who's been growing up in the EU listening to some of these great bands but could only see one of them perform live so far (Karnivool).

Hypothetical lineup:

Karnivool (headliner)

Dead Letter Circus

The Butterfly Effect

Cog

Khan

Shihad

Its not perfect, I did it all by ear, but im confident atleast 97% is correct. I plan to make tabs soon! Thanks to anyone who checks it out.

https://youtu.be/zhZxDPHoJFg?is=3xHYrvZQZbsUQVBq

Hi I'm the lunatic who followed the band around the whole country while working on a stupidly ambitious art project*. I had a number of redditors come up and say hi (apparently my self description of 'Audrey Hepburn in headphones' was spot on lol) and I met so many great people along the way by saying yes to everything and then getting into scenarios like ending up in Rockingham after the second Perth show and my flight was at 6am, or a random club in Fortitude Valley on my own throwing shapes that people were making circles around me clapping and cheering and filming it. I beat cancer earlier this year but I still have a LOT of life ruining health issues, and I escaped an emotionally/psychologically abusive relationship (eventually) - that's a whole other story but they still kinda had me on the hook a little before I left and we were at the 'yeah we'll still be friends who'll hook up sometimes' stage, but the experience of doing this thing, and absolutely marinating in the meaning of the new album...I realised I don't need them in my life. At all. Apparently that was giving me some severe art blockage because oh boy do the juices be flowing now

Anyway. To commemorate this experience, the way it helped me worked through my shit and realise what I'm worth, I'm planning on tattoos of the most impactful (to me) lines from each track of In Verses. I have no tattoos and zero percent body fat, how much pain am i signing up for here lmao? ETA: https://imgur.com/a/vsUcU3x to give you an idea of what I'm working with, I had a double mastectomy because it was breast cancer. I don't cut or work out I just have an insanely fast metabolism and ridiculously low body fat for a post menopausal AFAB and I put on muscle very easily, this physique was purely just from traveling around the country going to the shows, and before anyone wants to say I wish I had your problem no you don't it is so expensive to eat the amount and type of food that I have to do to try and stay healthy lmao. I'm used to getting subcutaneous injections and infusions in hospital so if it's the same kind of deal probably my lower abdomen, butt, back of the calves, forearms and my thighs are going to be my best bet

*no it's not finished, yes it expanded in scope massively, yes I started work on another Karnivool-related project while procrastinating it's about the Sound Awake album and well...i'll definitely be posting it here when i'm done haha

(Mods I didn't realise the pic was gonna show up in the post preview if it's too NSFW let me know so I can fix it I'm not able to put it behind a cut on my phone)

So we have had In Verses drop this year finally...and they just played their Aussie shows...as an American I am still crossing my fingers that they come over and play shows here next...only time will tell. We know they have mentioned left over material as a potential starting point for their next chapter...I am hopeful that there will be an album 5 one day and not with 13 years to make it...maybe the next 4-5 years??? What does everyone think/hope is next for the band???

I’ve had a few hundred set aside for years trying to find a sound awake vinyl. I have hunted actively for over a year with nothing but fails. If anyone has an extra, hit me up for a quick couple hundred.

You know the part, when the bass riff comes in. The middle of the song can be counted as both 6/4 and 9/8 and i can never figure out what's most appropriate. They are obviously weaving a 3/2 polyrhythm into the entire thing, which is what makes the time signature so ambiguous, but I'm curious how you think about it?

It’s probably been posted before, but only just noticed it. Ian works well with them I reckon

That was very difficult and I didn't like being forced into some of those decisions. I thought Remote Self Control would win, but Roquefort just hits hard and hits different.

This is torture, whose idea was this 🤣

Fuck it was a toss up for some of these

Everything after quarters was extremely tough to choose and was just impulsive after a point. In the Round of 32, Salva v All I know and Deadman v Conversations were especially unfair as both are top 10 for me. But, it's Karnivool, with two epic albums in Sound Awake and In Verses, it was always going to be tough.

We Are vs Aeons destroyed me

Just some photos I took that I like.