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Boards of Canada return with Inferno, their first album in 13 years, unveiled through an ARG-style rollout and seven global playback events; the hi-fi, analogue textures fuse with apocalyptic themes and hauntology, highlighted by tracks like Prophecy at 1420 MHz whose 72-second vocoded message echoes the Wow! Signal, signaling a hopeful yet haunted reclamation of their sound.
Boards of Canada return after 13 years with Inferno, a dark, richly textured electronic suite that blends their signature nostalgic mood with heavier rhythm, mysterious voice samples, and occult imagery. The long-form listening experience unfolds with intricate clockwork, cryptic Easter eggs, and themes around faith and existence, delivering some of their most immersive and captivating music to date without straying far from their established sound.
A Space Daily piece reports Timothy Burbery’s claim that Dante’s Inferno encodes a structural analogy to large planetary impacts: the nine circles resemble multi-ring crater basins, with the central Mount Purgatory analogizing antipodal seismic uplift. It’s presented as a humanities interpretation—reading the poem through modern impact science—part of the literary-geomythology idea that ancient narratives may preserve awareness of catastrophic threats before science explained them. The article stresses that this is not empirical evidence of Dante’s knowledge, but a tight, specific parallel rather than a data-driven claim, and notes the broader debate about myth and catastrophe in ancient literature.
New research led by Timothy Burbery suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may describe a planetary-scale asteroid impact centuries before modern meteoritics, portraying Satan as a high‑velocity impactor that could bend Earth’s crust to form Hell’s rings and a central Mount Purgatory on the opposite side. The study likens these features to real crater-forming processes, such as multi‑ring basins exemplified by large impacts like Chicxulub, and argues that ancient mythologies can encode early observations of cosmic threats, bridging literature and planetary geology in its interpretation of Dante’s cosmology.
Boards of Canada have announced their fifth studio album, Inferno, an 18-track release on Warp Records due May 29, 2026, with a limited red translucent two‑LP vinyl in a triple gatefold sleeve and a 16‑page booklet. The news follows weeks of fan speculation sparked on Reddit and the posting of the first new track in 13 years, Tape 05, along with an album teaser.
Boards Of Canada announce Inferno, an 18-track album due May 29, 2026 on Warp, their first release in 13 years since Tomorrow's Harvest; teaser campaign included VHS tapes, posters, and the recently released track Tape 05 (April 16).