EPTA7 Featured on Woven Black: Where Industrial Metal Meets Cinematic Urban Horror

 

We’re very happy to announce that EPTA7 has been featured on Woven Black with an extensive article exploring the music, concept and visual universe behind our latest album, Here Come the Freaks.

Titled “EPTA7: Where Industrial Metal Meets Cinematic Urban Horror,” the feature goes beyond a traditional album presentation and looks at the world that connects the songs: a dystopian city where architecture seems alive, memories become part of the environment and its inhabitants are gradually transformed by fear, trauma, paranoia and decay.

The article explores how tracks such as The Fog, The Walls Breathe, Frozen Town, Mostri Dentro and Black Circuit Fear approach this universe from different perspectives, combining industrial rhythms, distorted guitars, dark electronics and cinematic atmospheres.

It also focuses on an important part of the EPTA7 identity: music and imagery are not separate elements. The videos, characters, locations and recurring symbols are extensions of the same narrative established by the music.

With Frozen Town, this world has begun to take an increasingly visible form — a city that is no longer simply the background to the story, but gradually becomes one of its central characters.

A huge thank you to Woven Black for taking the time to explore EPTA7 beyond genre labels and for capturing the atmosphere and ideas behind Here Come the Freaks.

The city is still growing.
And so are its monsters.

🖤 Read the complete Woven Black feature:
EPTA7: Where Industrial Metal Meets Cinematic Urban Horror

EPTA7
Industrial Metal • Dark Alternative • Cinematic Urban Horror

EPTA7 – Line-Up Update and New Album Title

 

We would like to share an important update regarding the current EPTA7 line-up.

Industrial Fog is no longer part of EPTA7.

We would like to sincerely thank him for the professionalism, dedication and hard work he brought to the project. His contribution has been an important part of this chapter of EPTA7, and we are genuinely grateful for everything he has done during his time with the band.

We wish him nothing but the very best for his future projects and whatever comes next.

For the time being, EPTA7 will continue as a two-piece, while we search for the right musicians to complete the line-up. We have no intention of rushing this process. For us, EPTA7 has always been more than simply putting musicians together: finding people who understand its sound, atmosphere, imagery and overall artistic vision is essential.

In the meantime, our plans remain unchanged.

Work continues on our next album, scheduled for release in November 2026, along with the audiovisual projects that will accompany this new chapter.

We would also like to officially clarify the album's title.

Although we previously referred to it as Schengen Reloaded, the definitive title of the new EPTA7 album will be:

SCHENGEN RELOAD

The line-up may change, but the world we are building continues to evolve.

EPTA7 moves forward.

EPTA7 Featured on MetalNews.pl – “Here Come the Freaks” Reaches Poland 🇵🇱

 

We’re very happy to share a new feature dedicated to EPTA7 and our debut full-length album, Here Come the Freaks, published by Polish music publication MetalNews.pl.

The article traces the story of EPTA7 from the project's formation in Dublin in 2012, through the early Eptasystem era and the long period of silence that followed, to our return in 2026 with a completely expanded musical and visual identity.

Welcome to Here Come the Freaks

MetalNews.pl explores not only the history of EPTA7, but also the concept behind Here Come the Freaks.

The album combines industrial metal, industrial rock, dark electronics, post-punk tension and cinematic atmospheres, creating a dystopian world in which the city is much more than a backdrop.

It watches.
It remembers.
And slowly, it changes the people living inside it.

The “freaks” inhabiting this world are not simply traditional horror monsters. They represent fear, trauma, isolation, paranoia, loss of identity and the psychological consequences of living under constant pressure.

The city creates its monsters.

EPTA7 on Metal News Polska

A huge thank you to Tom and the MetalNews.pl team for giving EPTA7 the opportunity to tell our story to a new audience and for supporting independent music.

It's particularly exciting for us to see Here Come the Freaks reaching listeners in Poland as the EPTA7 universe continues to expand through music, videos and new stories.

🇵🇱 Read the full MetalNews.pl article:
https://www.metalnews.pl/muzyka/epta7-here-come-the-freaks/

The walls remember. Do you? 🧱

“Frozen Town” Official Music Video Out Now

 

The city is frozen. But something inside it is still alive.

EPTA7 have released the official music video for “Frozen Town”, taken from the album Here Come the Freaks.

Frozen Town takes us deeper into the dystopian universe surrounding the album: a place where the city is more than a setting. Streets, buildings and memories become part of a living organism, while the boundary between human beings and the monsters they create slowly begins to disappear.

Isolation, fear and psychological transformation lie at the heart of the story. As with the rest of Here Come the Freaks, the horror is not simply about creatures hiding in the darkness. The monsters are manifestations of something much more human.

The city creates its monsters.

The official video expands this world visually, transforming Frozen Town into another chapter of the larger EPTA7 universe.

🎬 Video created by Maya AI Creations — @mayaaicreations

▶️ Watch “Frozen Town” – Official Music Video:
https://youtu.be/EhtXTn_vJwA

Welcome to Frozen Town. ❄️
Some places should never wake up.

EPTA7 Featured on Indie Band Guru: “8 Questions with EPTA7”

We’re very happy to share a new in-depth interview with Indie Band Guru, where EPTA7 opens the door a little further into the strange universe behind Here Come the Freaks.

In “8 Questions with EPTA7,” we talk about the origins and evolution of the project, the ideas and fears that shaped Here Come the Freaks, and the relationship between music, storytelling and the increasingly cinematic visual world surrounding EPTA7.

The conversation goes deeper into The Walls Breathe, including some of the inspirations and hidden references behind the song and its imagery, while also exploring influences ranging from H.P. Lovecraft and Tim Burton to Guillermo del Toro and H.R. Giger.

But the interview isn't only about where we've been.

We also discuss what comes next: Schengen Reload, the next chapter of EPTA7. While Here Come the Freaks looks inward at personal fears, trauma, paranoia and the monsters living inside us, Schengen Reload turns its attention outward — toward a world shaped by war, climate anxiety, pandemics, political fragmentation and the uncertain future of Europe.

A huge thank you to Keith Pro and Indie Band Guru for giving us the space to explain the project in depth and, above all, for showing genuine curiosity about the world we're building.

🖤 Read the complete interview:
Indie Band Guru — 8 Questions with EPTA7

Here Come the Freaks.
The walls are breathing.
And this is only the beginning.

— EPTA7

 

ISW Reacts Discovers EPTA7 for the First Time

 

Another new reaction to EPTA7 is now online!

This time, ISW Reacts enters the world of EPTA7 for the very first time with a full reaction to “The Walls Breathe”, one of the tracks from our album Here Come the Freaks.

Watching someone experience the song without knowing what to expect is always interesting for us, especially with a track like The Walls Breathe, where the music and visuals are designed to work together as part of the same experience.

During the reaction, ISW Reacts explores the track’s combination of heavy guitars, electronics, industrial rhythms and cinematic atmosphere, while also paying attention to the imagery and concept behind the official video.

What makes this reaction particularly rewarding for us is that he really understood what lies beneath the song.

“The Walls Breathe” is about the moment when a place stops feeling like a simple environment and begins to become part of your psychological reality — when isolation, anxiety and paranoia transform the space around you until even the walls seem alive.

That idea is an important part of the universe behind Here Come the Freaks, an album built around fears, trauma, distorted perception and the strange creatures that can emerge from the darker corners of the human mind.

A huge thank you to ISW Reacts for taking the time to discover EPTA7 and for giving The Walls Breathe such an attentive first listen.

🎥 Watch the full reaction on ISW Reacts’ YouTube channel.

🎧 Listen to EPTA7 – Here Come the Freaks on Spotify and all major streaming platforms.

More reactions, videos and new material are coming.

EPTA7 — The walls are breathing.

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Epta7 featured on Planet Singer

 

We’re thrilled to share a new in-depth feature on Planet Singer, dedicated to EPTA7, “The Walls Breathe”, our album Here Come the Freaks, and the dark cinematic world surrounding the project.

The article comes with a headline that certainly caught our attention:

“EPTA7 Unleash Industrial Darkness with ‘The Walls Breathe’ — A Terrifying Masterpiece”

Planet Singer dives deep into the atmosphere of “The Walls Breathe”, exploring its industrial textures, mechanical rhythms, contrasting vocals and the sense of claustrophobia and urban horror at the heart of the song.

But the feature goes far beyond a single-track review.

It explores the wider world of Here Come the Freaks, touches on other parts of EPTA7’s music and even looks ahead to “Zombies of the Third Millennium” and the next chapter of the project, Schengen Reload.

One passage in particular means a lot to us:

“One of the most distinctive and intriguing forces currently operating within industrial and dark alternative metal.” — Planet Singer

For an independent project, there is something particularly rewarding about seeing someone not only listen to the music, but actually engage with the ideas, atmosphere and imagery behind it.

A huge thank you to Nicolas and the Planet Singer team for the attention, enthusiasm and care they put into the article.

The walls remember.

The walls absorb.

The Walls Breathe.

Read the full Planet Singer feature

https://www.planetsinger.net/epta7-unleash-industrial-darkness-with-the-walls-breathe-a-terrifying-masterpiece-from-here-come-the-freaks-album/

— EPTA7