Perturbator announces new album, Age Of Aquarius

Paris multi-instrumentalist James Kent – aka Perturbator – has just announced details of his sixth album, Age Of Aquarius.

Due out on October 10 via Nuclear Blast, the follow-up to 2021’s brilliant Lustful Sacraments features guest spots from Alcest, Author & Punisher and Greta Link, and digs into ‘how individualism, conflict and war are interrelated and dominant societal forces’, according to a press release.

“The first half of Age Of Aquarius is all about conflict,” reveals James. “The misanthropy and violence that lays in all of us. The second part of the album then talks about individualism. The understanding that group-thinking leads to nowhere and having your own free will is the single most essential thing we have in life.”

Perturbator is teasing what’s to come with new single Apocalypse Now, which features Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver) and is about “the systematic destruction we cause to our own kind. It is our inability to get along with – and often vilify – ‘the others’. Thus accelerating the end of our ways of life through simple hubris and self-validation.”

Check it out below:

Catch James live at the following dates this year:

Perturbator 2025 European and UK tour

November

5 Nantes – Stereolux
6 Lille – Aeronef
7 London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
8 Manchester – Damnation Festival
11 Vienna – Arena
12 Budapest – Dürer Kert
13 Prague – SaSaZu
14 Berlin – Huxleys
17 Vilnius – Loftas
19 Helsinki – Kulttuuritalo
21 Stockholm – Fallan
22 Copenhagen – The Grey Hall
23 Oslo – Rockefeller
25 Hamburg – Gruenspan
26 Nijmegen – Doornroosje
27 Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
28 Cologne – Live Music Hall
29 Meisenthal – La Boite Noire

December

1 Munich – Muffathalle
2 Ljubljana – Kino Šiška
3 Milan – Live Club
4 Lausanne – Les Docks
5 Paris – Le Bataclan
6 Paris – Le Bataclan

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