The Beauty of Gemina – Endless Ever

Scheduled for release on February 13, Endless Ever, a 6-minute-long single, marks the first new material since they released their 10th studio album, Songs of Homecoming, in 2024. Those are merely the bare technical facts.

However, much more intriguing is the sonic signature of Endless Ever. It hearkens back, way back, to the very sombre and darkened roots of The Beauty of Gemina, when the so-called „Gemina Sound“ was coined and represented a dense, sinister ambience with repetitive lyrics that paved the way to an almost psychedelic state of mind.

Although the album Songs of Homecoming often paid tribute to this early sound, you couldn’t be sure that Michael Sele, the band’s creative mind, would go further in this direction. But as Endless Ever impressively demonstrates, it’s truly a giant step back in time.

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Therefore, Endless Ever is full of sonic references to previous pieces. Within the subtle rhythm, you’ll hear a subdued synth line that echoes the more aggressive and highlighted one in June 2nd (2012) or the one in Veil of Rain (2024). Front and centre, there’s a sharp and clean guitar meandering in a mysterious, almost Middle Eastern melody. The guitar’s enourmous presences is probably only matched by Colours of Mind (2008).

I’m waiting for you
Till the dawn is coming
Till the dawn is coming
While the night is still here
Endless ever
Endless ever

Layer by layer, the composition gains drama and complexity as Michael Sele’s voice preaches into the darkness. Like multiplying tentacles, the song wraps around you, pulls you further down into a total sound, compiled from so many elements working together that decoding becomes almost an impossibility.

„Endless Ever is about waiting as a state of being—about a love or hope that is greater than time,“ Sele reveals. „I wanted to capture that feeling when seconds hurt because you miss someone, time loses its meaning, and in the end, all that remains is the endless clinging to hope.“

Endless ever
Endless ever
I’m losing the time
And every second aching
Every second

And Endless Ever succeeds excellently in this regard. The countless repetitions in the lyrics, the longingly roaming guitar, and the dark rumbling of rhythm stretch the objectively long runtime of Endless Ever into a sense of nerve-wracking infinity. Seconds become minutes, become hours. It leaves you in an eerie tension between hope and desperation.

The idea that a song embraces this very desperate idea of infinity might seem odd, even destructive. Who would want to endure this anyway? But no, Endless Ever equips you with just the right amount of resilience that keeps you from drowning. With confidence, you can dive into this hypnotic epos and melt in the beauty of its pain and despair.