Intronaut just released their first new album in five years Fluid Existential Inversions. The album is the band's first without founding drummer Danny Walker, who left the group in 2018. Walker was not officially replaced, but rather filled in for by Alex Rüdinger (Good Tiger, Conquering Dystopia, Whitechapel [live]).
Sacha Dunable, Intronaut guitarist and owner of Dunable Guitars, recently told MetalSucks that those five years between records almost caused him to quit the band. Dunable said it became increasingly difficult to balance the band and adult life, though he's glad he got talked out of putting the band on hold.
“The hiatus wasn’t only because of the member change. We were taking a year off before that even happened. Just because we needed it. We’d been doing this band for so many years, semi-full-time. We scheduled ourselves right out of a tour to write a record and finish it. We actually wrote three of these songs for the most part with Danny and ended up reworking some things, “Pangloss” being one of them actually. It was just at a certain point trying to get all that done, it was falling short. I actually told the band I was just done. I thought I was ready to quit Intronaut. Joe suggested that we just take a year off. Then, after that year off, we had the whole member change thing. So we added a whole nother year. That’s why I guess it was four and a half years between records or something.
“It was getting tough to get things done, which is understandable. I’m 38 years old, and we’re all pretty much the same age. I think life just starts happening, and if you’re not in a super full time kind of band situation it’s hard to balance regular life and band life. It’s understandable that not everybody would have the energy to put everything into it, myself included. I felt drained and burnt out. I was sort of ready to just stop being full time band guy basically. I would never stop making music. I play guitar all the time, I’m just kind of writing stuff. I thought maybe it was time to stop. I’m glad I was more or less talked out of that and we put it on ice for a bit. After three months, I was already writing more Intronaut riffs. It worked out."
Intronaut is currently on the road with Cult of Luna and Emma Ruth Rundle.
Feb. 28 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Feb. 29 – Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage
Mar. 1 – New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater
Mar. 2 – Montreal, QC @ Corona
Mar. 3 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Mar. 4 – Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
Mar. 5 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
Mar. 6 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
Mar. 7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Mar. 9 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Mar. 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre (w/o Intronaut)
Mar. 11 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
Mar. 13 – Mexico City, MX @ Auditorio Blackberry (Cult of Luna only)
