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  "description": "The first single since their 2024 album, „Songs of Homecoming“, finds The Beauty of Gemina returning to their sonic roots. A song that captures a seemingly futile feeling perfectly.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T14:42:15.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.negativewhite.com",
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    "«Never before has an album been as self-contained as ‹Songs of Homecoming›»The Beauty of Gemina’s Michael Sele about the new album, closing a circle, and how illness and the pandemic fuelled his confidence as an artist.Negative WhiteJanosch Troehler",
    "_June 2nd_",
    "_Veil of Rain_",
    "_Colours of Min_"
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  "textContent": "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.\n\nHowever, 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.\n\nAlthough 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.\n\n«Never before has an album been as self-contained as ‹Songs of Homecoming›»The Beauty of Gemina’s Michael Sele about the new album, closing a circle, and how illness and the pandemic fuelled his confidence as an artist.Negative WhiteJanosch Troehler\n\nTherefore, _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 Min_ _d_ (2008).\n\n> I’m waiting for you\n> Till the dawn is coming\n> Till the dawn is coming\n> While the night is still here\n> Endless ever\n> Endless ever\n\nLayer 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.\n\n## Join Negative White\n\nWe believe music is better when shared with others.\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam, only music. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n„ _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.“\n\n> Endless ever\n> Endless ever\n> I’m losing the time\n> And every second aching Every second\n\nAnd _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.\n\nThe 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.\n\n#### The Beauty of Gemina on tour\n\n26.02.2026 – Augsburg (DE) – Spectrum\n27.02.2026 – Köln (DE) – Groove Bar\n28.02.2026 – Frankfurt (DE) – Das Bett\n06.03.2026 – Stuttgart (DE) – Im Wizemann Studio\n07.03.2026 – Oberhausen (DE) – Kulttempel\n20.03.2026 – Hannover (DE) – LUX\n21.03.2026 – Hamburg (DE) – Bahnhof Pauli\n22.03.2026 – Berlin (DE) – Badehaus\n27.03.2026 – Leipzig (DE) – Moritzbastei\n28.03.2026 – Tuttlingen (DE) – Stadthalle Tuttlingen",
  "title": "The Beauty of Gemina – Endless Ever",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-05T09:33:13.285Z"
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