In accordance with streaming and personalised playlists being primary forms of music consumption, bassist/vocalist Chris Rand said the quartet were adapting with the times.  

“We’re not going to do any more albums, we’re going to do batches of songs,” he said.

“We’ll write a new song or two, and then we’ll bundle it with a cover… And also with five re-recorded tracks from our back catalogue.

“We might do a limited run of physical (copies), but it won’t be something we’ll be looking to get into stores or anything like that, because that whole thing is dead.”

Rand believed this was the way forward for the veteran outfit. 

“We’re still trying to figure out how we want to do it, but we’re going to drip-feed them first; do one at a time and release little lyric videos and behind-the-scenes stuff with it.

“Everything is going to be free. The only thing we’ll probably do is when we bundle the EP, we’ll just charge for the new song.

“We just want people to enjoy what we do, and give back as much as we can to the scene that has supported us for so long.”

Rand said the band is currently penning a follow-up song to the title track from their 1997 album Fifth of the Fifth.

The new track will be titled Blood on the Sixth. 

“When we wrote (the original), we always had the intention of following it up, but we just never got back to it,” he said.

“We’ve finally got around to doing that, so there will be a new Segression song by the end of the year.

“The Fifth of the Fifth was supposed to be like the prophecy of the world ending, and this follows up from that, saying the world ceased to exist as we knew it, those were the words that we used back in the day.

“It was more of a play on words that the world kind of changed around that era. And it did. The world that we used to know back then is not here any more.

“It’s all digital age, artificial intelligence and social media. So that world did kind of die… So we’re following that up with more saying, the song was designed to show how fast the world’s evolution was changing.”

Segression commemorated their 20th anniversary in 2016. 

The band was initially formed in 1993 as Eezee. 

During their initial run from 1996-2003, Segression supported heavyweight international acts such as Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, Slipknot, Fear Factory and Soulfly. 

After a hiatus, in 2009 Segression reconvened.

“We’re kind of self-sufficient, the whole thing ticks over and we’re still really passionate and enjoying it more than ever,” Rand said. 

“As long as our physicality keeps up; meaning as long as my voice doesn’t give out and the boys’ fingers can still play their instruments, we’ll just keep going.”

Segression will perform at UOW UniBar on Friday, October 13.

Also appearing are Melbourne’s Frankenbok, Illawarra acts Carbon Black and Panik, and Brisbane’s Kold Creature. 

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