ATER – detail the writing and dark romantic chapters of Everlasting

Written by EOS Editorial Team

November 12, 2026

For ATER frontman Fernando Bühring, the music for Everlasting came before its lyrics, themes and title. The album, scheduled for January 29, 2027, through Torque Records, brings goth and doom elements into the Santiago, Chile band’s extreme dark metal sound while expanding its melodic writing and clean vocals.

“The songs were pouring out of me,” Bühring comments. “Once I had all the music written, the lyrics and themes started coming to me, as well as the title. It was all very natural, I just followed the feelings the music gave back to me and as always I poured a lot of my personal life and tribulations in there.”

The writing also challenged Bühring to develop his singing voice for the new material. The announcement describes Everlasting as an anthology rather than specifically a concept album: its eight songs act as chapters within an overarching dark love story, moving from passion, adoration and worship toward manipulation, heartbreak and abandonment.

Opening track “Venus,” previously released as a single in 2025, introduces the lovers through an ode to the goddess. The announcement describes its lyrical union as both beautiful and destructive. “When At Night” follows with a supernatural courtship and midnight chase, pairing intense rhythms and guttural vocals with clean singing and harmonies. Its narrative culminates in a passion that makes the gods envious.

“Heart Of Glass” turns toward destruction. Its protagonist blindly worships his lover, suffers heartbreak and hopes for death as relief, against a slow, heavy musical backdrop. “Neverlasting” addresses separation and mourning through a romantic metal ballad with heavy dissonance. The supplied description calls its name “a twist to the album’s name, kind of a title track but using a synonym instead,” with longing, fading hope and romanticism central to the lyrics.

Control and submission shape “Make Me Bleed,” whose protagonist remains devoted to a deceitful lover despite understanding her desire to possess him. “Ketamine” takes the story into spiraling depression and addictive love, accompanied by aggressive rhythms and heavy percussion.

“Sleep,” the album’s second heavy romantic ballad, moves from a slower, weighty arrangement into clean guitars and vocals. Its rejected protagonist experiences insomnia and intrusive dreams driven by longing and obsession. As of the November 10 announcement, “Sleep” is the only track cleared for radio and podcast play; that clearance does not establish a separate single release.

Closing song “With You Came The Winter” uses winter as an emotional landscape for abandonment and desolation. The announcement describes the central character as suspended in paralysis, “like frozen inside an iced lake,” while the arrangement brings together the album’s theatrical and bleak sonic elements.

Bühring produced Everlasting, which was recorded at Torque Records. Daniel Lancaster mixed the album, Tony Lindgren of Fascination Street Studios mastered it, and Travis Smith created the cover artwork.

ATER describe their music as Dark Metal or Extreme Dark Metal, drawing primarily on extreme metal and gothic rock. Their approach combines modern and organic production with introspective lyrics and a contemporary treatment of gothic romanticism. Bühring builds compositions around guitars and bass, with bass parts often occupying a central place in the mix.

The band released debut album Eternal Gray Spiral through Insania Recordings in 2018, followed by Somber through Torque Records in 2024. Singles “The Fall” and “Venus” followed in 2025; “Venus” also opens Everlasting.

ATER’s touring history includes Epic Prophecy Europe 2024 with BATUSHKA, VLTIMAS and GOD DETHRONED; Beyond The Black Tour Europe 2025 with VENOM INC, KRISIUN and HATE; and Morbidfest Tour Europe 2025 with POSSESSED, TERRORIZER, SUICIDAL ANGELS and NIGHTFALL. The band performed 110 shows in 2025, including support for CRADLE OF FILTH in Santiago, Chile, and an appearance at Turock Festival in Essen, Germany.

The supplied lineup comprises Fernando Bühring, Vincent Zbinden, Christian Vallejos and Javier Ciudad. ATER are also available for interviews through press contact sofia@csquared.info.