The 'Exhilarating' New Chapter For The Butterfly Effect (And When To Expect A New Tune!)

Their recent single may be titled So Tired, but Aussie icons The Butterfly Effect are anything but, ending 2021 on an energetic high ahead of an impending fourth studio album next year.

Starting to form in the very late '90s, before solidifying their line-up and rising to prominence in the early 2000s, The Butterfly Effect became one of Australia’s most-loved rock bands of the time, with their self-titled EP in 2001 and debut album Begins Here in 2003 putting them squarely in the public eye.

Spanning everything from alternative metal to hard and prog rock - and all the corners and hidden places between the two, the Butters gents became renowned for touring their high octane shows at home, abroad and on festival stages, snagging chart and radio airplay success and selling hundreds of thousands of records along the way - until the fairytale came to a halt in 2012 when frontman Clint Boge departed the band, before the group officially announced their disbandment in 2016 following a lengthy hiatus.

But out of the ashes and back on stage, 2018 saw the original line-up of Boge, drummer Ben Hall, bassist Glenn Esmond and guitarist Kurt Goedhart return with a massive national reunion tour - which in turn led to a new emotive-laden track Unbroken released in 2019, and now over two years later, fans have been gifted with yet another new song recently, with heavy rocker So Tired burning a hole in many a speaker of late.

While there's certainly a hell of a lot more to come in 2022 from The Butterfly Effect, the group are undeniably closing 2021 with a bang while hurtling lock, stock and barrel towards a hotly anticipated fourth studio album, as Butters guitarist Kurt Goedhart explained on today's episode of The Green Room podcast. 

"I guess since 2018 is when all of this nonsense got back on track," Goedhart told host Tiana Speter.

"It's been a long, long time, I guess...we had all these grand plans of wrapping everything within the year, but - that didn't work out so well!

"We went on a tour, and then from that tour we felt inspired to maybe knock together a couple of new tracks. And this has been the journey, this is what's happened.

"We're getting close to wrapping the whole album, we're hoping...if all things go to plan, which - if there's one thing I've learned in life, you cannot plan life," Goedhart said wryly, "But yeah, we should have everything wrapped up by February/March, that'll be the whole record done."

While it's been a touch over thirteen years since The Butterfly Effect released their previous full-length Final Conversation Of Kings back in 2008, the band have managed to squeeze in seemingly a lifetime of change, both personally and professionally, before reuniting once more with their original lineup; a fact that has reinvigorated Goedhart particularly on the cusp of album #4.

"It's been excellent, really excellent," Goedhart mused about getting back into writing and creating with his fellow Butters bandmates.

"And it's absolutely incredible, considering there were quite a few years there where we went: 'Well, we've done that. It's over. Let's leave that behind.'

"And then to come along and to get where we are now, I think it's been awesome, really awesome. We're stoked!

"I haven't been this excited about Butterfly Effect music since...since probably the demos of Imago, our second record. And that was, like, 2005.

"So, that's a very long time to be this excited about music!"

For Butterfly Effect fans, absence entirely made the heart grow fonder, with the band's initial reunion shows in 2018 selling out completely in an extremely short space of time. But it wasn't just the fans that ultimately benefited from the hiatus that would inadvertently lead to a new album - the band themselves also found space and time to evolve, and return hungrier than ever.

"Having the break from each other, we've all gone through life in the meantime," Goedhart explained. 

"Ben [Hall] and I...we've never stopped playing the whole time. So we've just amassed a bucketload of music," Goedhart paused and smiled. "Not all of it good.

"But we've had time to amass music, we've had time to breathe from each other - so, it's fresh, it's exciting. It's exhilarating! 

"Going into the room is a really great experience, we're all on a really similar page as well at the moment, in the writing sense, you know, what we wanna achieve out of this.

"Or I've just drilled it into them," Goedhart laughed.

"It's thrilling, there's no tension, it's not paying anyone's mortgages anymore. It's fun! And the results we're getting with the time we are afforded at this stage...we're totally blown away!

"I'm really thrilled about them, really thrilled."

As to what and when we can expect new material from The Butterfly Effect in 2022?

"We've got four tracks finished now in the bag," Goedhart revealed. And we've got another three about to be finished, all that has to happen is vocals have to be dropped in on the next three."

"I'm looking forward to releasing the next song. February's the next song, if anyone was wondering! 

"We'll be putting the finishing touches on it over this month, ready for a new year release!"

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The Butterfly Effect's latest track So Tired is out in the world right now, you can grab a watch of the clip below. And keep an eye out in 2022 for even more new Butters material, for more info head here.

To check out the full chat with Kurt and host Tiana Speter, you can listen below, via the Euphony site, via YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts - or wherever you usually get your podcasts from.

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