Homegrown metalcore hybrids Void of Vision have become a staple of the Australian metal scene. From their earlier days in 2014 from Broken // Bones and 2016’s Children of Chrome to 2019’s enthralling LP, Hyperdaze and 2023’s CHRONICLES, the boys have nurtured their fanbase locally and grown into one of the country’s most evolved heavy bands.

Thie week marks the release of their bolstered fourth LP, What I’ll Leave Behind. Out this Friday, the album is packed full of energised anthems, interjecting and blurring the lines between life trauma and heavy music altogether. Following an impactful medical emergency (““The album is a reflection, on and of everything; coming to terms with life and mortality, finding inner peace from within the impact crater.”), frontman Jack Bergin is grateful to be alive, thrilled to highlight his latest life experiences on this record and take Void of Vision on some of their biggest tours yet.

Releasing What I’ll Leave Behind in 2024, I think we’re just ready to follow suit with the rest of our friends and peers at the moment. We’re seeing them take that next level into theatres and those bigger venues. I obviously think we’re not shy to that with the stage production and elements that we bring through our live show. But I think this album really poises us for that, and I’m really excited to take our homegrown product to that level. 

It’s really exciting because Australian touring is so comfortable for us, and now we’re at the liberty of bringing friends from overseas and making these bigger tour packages and making really exciting experiences for our fans. It feels really special. We’re actually in the midst of planning the next one at the moment and it’s super exciting. We’re doing a bunch of awesome venues that I never thought we’d be able to do. It’s really, really just come at the perfect time because there’s so much reflection going on and finally we’re giving space to allow ourselves to have gratitude for what’s happened. We’ve had hurdles and everything along the way on this album campaign in particular, but it’s just proved to be such a rewarding experience because nothing has taken away how special everything is and how much we’re going to enjoy the next few months.

Kicking off the What I’ll Leave Behind release tour will be opening up for Parkway Drive’s mammoth 30th Anniversary headliner alongside I Prevail and The Ghost Inside. The band are stoked and for their level, gaining an opportunity provides a wholesome feeling:

We’re about to go out with Parkway Drive on the biggest tour they’ve ever done; and the biggest tour that we’ve ever done. It’s a pretty skitz feeling to be honest, and it’s really special to have that in the books. They’re the reason we started being in a band. They’re the reason I think most modern Australian heavy bands started being in a band,  and it’s just a very, very full circle moment to be releasing this kind of record and then jumping straight on that tour.

It’s a very surreal feeling and I still haven’t totally come to terms with how to even voice it to be honest. But I think at home in Australia, we feel so fucking comfortable at the moment and just so set up. It all feels really good here. And what’s even more exciting is how exciting it feels internationally as well, because we’re taking it all over to America again soon too. We’re in a position over there now after last time where we did quite well for ourselves and we now see things clicking. And it’s really cool to feel that again, because we’ve obviously done Australia to death, but going over to America for the first time in 2022 was kind of building the brand all over again. It was like touring another country for the first time. No one knows who you are. The internet exists for sure, but I feel like that live touring circuit is still something you have to bash through to get to where you are. Now, I can feel it working in America. And I feel that same sense of excitement as we did in Australia, except it’s happening a lot quicker; which is what we didn’t experience in Australia. It went very brick by brick by brick. For the first time in our careers we feel a bit of a shoots and ladders sort of situation going on there. And it’s really exciting!

Immediately following Parkway Drive’s tour conclusion in Perth, Void of Vision will play their first headline gigs stateside before joining tour mates The Ghost Inside this November across the USA. For many Aussie acts, taking on America is still very much a massive financial risk. However, this time round Void of Vision feel poised and ready that they’re tackling this next step into international borders more strategically than before:

We get to do our first headline shows in America later this year, and we’re jumping on with The Ghost Inside straight after this Parkway tour, so it’ll be awesome. And we’re also playing with August Burns Red for a Christmas show. It feels like an awesome culmination of the past few years just really paying off for us over there along with releasing What I’ll Leave Behind. 

We were worried one time after we went to America, we lost a bunch of money and the tour didn’t go as well as we expected. But then it was very strange going around that next time and realising the tour did work. We just had to slog it out and wait for the benefits of it. It felt really comforting in a sense, and that was the most rewarding experience, to feel that again for the first time in so long. It’s crazy touring and slogging it again a lot later in your life; but it feels ten times as rewarding because you know what you’re doing, you kind of know the cheat codes around it all. You know certain things and you know how to not do things the dumb way.

For us, a lot of the rest of this year for Void Of Vision is just building that Australian and American fanbase, but with the help of the best record we’ve ever written alongside us. That’s really handy, honestly.

I’m not going to lie, I really enjoy at times that whole viewpoint of bands when they have the “slept on” kind of angle. It’s a surprise that people don’t expect, and then when they finally do give it the chance or it comes by them at the correct moment – it’s the perfect moment. Sometimes people can be forced into something at the wrong time, in the wrong moment and you don’t get the same effect as those naturally “letting it happen” moments. I do think that’s what Void Of Vision has been for a long time, it’s just been about letting it happen. And it also feels like that creatively for us, it feels like we’ve had that organic growth. But it feels so cool – none of it’s artificial! We obviously see a lot of things going on in the music industry that we are very aware of, we’re hyper aware of how things happen now. Having that knowledge and just seeing our natural growth is really fucking fun. It’s just cool to know that that sort of thing can still exist in a landscape that is quite controlled; but it feels nice to still have that natural ability alongside that.

We still have fun. We still enjoy what we do. As long as we’re doing that, we know that’s the key for anything that comes next.

Void of Vision’s fourth album, What I’ll Leave Behind is out this Friday, 20th September via UNFD.

Pre-order/pre-save here

Catch Void of Vision on Parkway Drive’s 30th Anniversary Tour this week. The shows kick off in Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre this Wednesday night. Grab remaining tickets here

Void of Vision – What I’ll Leave Behind tracklisting:

01. Oblivion
02. Blood For Blood
03. Supernova
04. Neurotic
05. Gamma Knife
06. Beautiful Things
07. Empty
08. Midnight Sweat
09. Decades
10. Angel of Darkness