Stare At The Clouds are an Australian 5-piece progressive post-metal band that take inspiration from the likes of The Contortionist, Tesseract, Karnivool, Deftones and A Perfect Circle – combining melodic polymetric textures, growling low-end, turning rhythms and groove to create a calculated, slow, heavy wash of sound.

Working with Sydney engineer Nathan Sheehy (Birds Of Tokyo, Dune Rats, Creo), the band recorded and mixed their debut album between 2013 and 2015 at Sydney’s Jungle Studios. Stare At The Clouds’ long awaited debut album This Clear Divide was released in April 2016, receiving excellent reviews:

“Each song transitions beautifully into the next and the music challenges the perceptions of modern metal and its tropes. There’s huge menacing rhythms, but the intensity is easily matched by the darkness and tonally heavy moments, the sparse ambient interludes and tension these all create”
– aaabackstage.com

“Every pause, shift and progression has been carefully constructed and is expertly cadenced.”
– loud-stuff.com

“A deliberate, passionate album…a mind-bending mix of harrowing clean vocals, furiously deliberate guitar chugging and percussion, and dissonant chords…It is one hell of an ambitious release”
– musicinjection.com.au

“Progressive-post-metal done damn well”
– myindieaustralia.wordpress.com