sace6: on brutalist, Creative Process and Touring

SACE6 took the world of heavy music by storm after their 2025 EP release Limerence. Not even a year later and they’re set to release their debut album brutalist. It builds upon their previous releases; showcasing their artistic growth and vision whilst keeping the hauntingly beautiful sound we know and love. Although the personal experiences and emotions both Sace and Noah went through during the creative process played a crucial role in shaping the meaning of the songs, they want listeners to apply the tracks to their own lives to make it feel more personal with every listen.

Although Noah and Sace live together, they are still able to separately work on parts of these tracks and come together to create exactly what they want to do. It either goes one of two ways, Sace tells us “He (Noah) makes the whole instrumental, sends it over, and I just sing over it like a rapper, or I'll have a sixteen-bar chorus or pre-hook that I sing over and send back to Noah so he can write the rest of the instrumental around that.”

“Then we wrote Ego, and we were like, 'Oh, fuck,' now we get it.” The lead single from brutalist was Ego, a track that is sitting on almost one million streams on Spotify alone already. Noah expresses that Ego felt like the “graduated sound of Limerence, what we’ve been trying to portray this entire time.” After writing Ego, each track that followed seemed to fall into place better than they could have ever expected. 

They had a wide range of inspirations whilst writing this album, some to be expected and some, not so much. Musically, Sace tells us that TATE MCRAE was a big inspiration for him and other inspirations included “Any 90s romance movie, Notting Hill, Autumn in New York.” For Noah, a non-musical inspiration included the Life Is Strange video game. All very different inspirations, but ones that somehow slot together better than you could imagine, inspiring the sound of brutalist.

Although this is their debut album, they managed to complete it in around three months, they had just been sitting on it for longer than that as they had to work around all the touring they were doing. The album name and cover pair together and represent the overall sound of the record with ease. When asked about the album name, Sace says “It comes from what the album sounds like, it’s based off feeling and then also playing into actual brutalist architecture and the texture of this album.” brutalist is concrete and stainless steel for them, going forward, they want everything to have texture for the world they are trying to create around their art.

Despite the quick turnaround time for the album, they still faced some challenges. Noah dives deeper into how easy it is to get burnt out whilst creating such a big project. “The real struggle was continuing having a consistent creative energy, if you’re burnt out, it's hard to get that back. The modern music industry has taken away that time to write music.”  Noah also touches up on some tough experiences he went through just before some of these tracks were made “Instrumentally, it was like me moving through what I was going through, like putting it in sonic form. As I grow, I feel like the songs are growing with me.”

Knowing this and knowing the haunting, eerie sound we have heard from the already released singles, listeners should be prepared for a heavy but ethereal listening experience. With only three singles being released before the full album drops, this is an album you need to listen to for the first time in full, preferably with headphones on, volume loud and in a dark room for the full experience. 

It is no secret that SACE6 seem to always be touring, and that is not slowing down for 2026. This year, you can catch the new album live in Australia, North America, Europe and the UK. This will be their first year of headline touring and they show how grateful they are for the opportunity and all their overseas fans. In 2024, they came overseas to support JXDN on a run of shows,  “We had never been over there, it was just so cool to be in these countries that we never thought we would go to, and there's people singing along to our songs, letting their feelings out as they resonate with it, especially so far away from where you're from. It's so crazy.”

If you want to catch a band before they end up becoming one of the names discussed about everywhere in music, SACE6 will be releasing their debut album brutalist on May 8 via Sumerian Records. You can catch them on headline tours in America, Europe, UK and they will be supporting CHIODOS in North America this summer along with 156/SILENCE and CALVA LOUISE.

Words: Isabella Jacklin

Photos: sace6

With thanks to: The Noise Cartel and sace6