News : Hemina release new music video, “The Collective Unconscious”

Following our reveal last month of Hemina‘s single, “High Kite Ride”, the Sydney four-piece have now unveiled their latest track, “The Collective Unconscious”. With both tracks taken from their latest release, Venus (which was released on November 11), check out the new music video below!

This Sunday just past saw Hemina kick off their Venus Australia tour at the Newtown Social Club, Sydney alongside local prog royalty, Caligula’s Horse and Sevsons. With their next show in Newcastle at The Vault on December 3 with Darkc3ll, be sure you catch Hemina in your city!

Hemina are:

Douglas Skene – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards

Mitch Coull – Guitars, Vocals

Jessica Martin – Bass, Vocals

Nathan McMahon – Drums, Vocals

Venus is an 80 minute concept album detailing and examining domestic violence, relationships, and individuality in the 21st century with a narrative arc to accompany and elaborate on their previous conceptual output.

Mainman Doug Skene comments:

After a cracker of a weekend supporting Queensryche with our mates LORD, we are ready to share with you a second track from Venus. This song is one of the most technical, grooving and melodic songs we have ever written and are ridiculously proud. This is one of the big conceptual tracks on the record taking us into the lead character’s fleeting disconnection from reality through the lightest of lights to the darkest of darks. 

It is certainly very different to ‘Moonlight Bride’ which we shared a couple of weeks back. We have been excited to share this epic with you for some time!

Hemina combine hard hitting syncopated grooves and lush synth backwashes with multi-part vocal harmonies and blistering, memorable leads to create soundcapes full of emotion.

The bands first two albums Synthetic (2011) and Nebulae were met with critical acclaim traversing two different sides of the band’s sonic spectrum from the complex and dark, to the concise and uplifting.

Venus sees that spectrum expand, offering flavours of what fans have come to expect in the past as well as a new palette and range of expression never before heard from the group.

From their ambitious “proggy” beginnings that shaped their first release, they developed a more alternative and concise sound for album number two and have now found their sonic feet and what they feel is the definitive Hemina direction and lineup.

Venus has been the most collaborative experience so far, with all members contributing to the songwriting process. So although many of the flavours and sounds will be familiar to those who know them, they are most certainly are treading new ground and this is the most adventurous they have been.

Venus is Hemina at their heaviest and most energetic without ignoring the tender and delicate side that keeps the music in balance.

With a powerful modern production and mix crafted between Skene and McMahon at Ploughman Studios with audiophile mastering from Ermin Hamidovic at Systematic Productions (Periphery, Devin Townsend, Plini) – this is the band at their best.

Hemina have played along side such international acts as Uriah Heep, Kamelot and Apocalyptica and opened for Queensryche earlier this month on the Sydney leg of their tour.

They have shared the stage with Aussie legends, Caligula’s Horse, Chaos Divine, Voyager, James Norbert Ivanyi, Divine Ascension, Breaking Orbit among many others and simply live for playing live.

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