NME9's first release of 2025 was also one of the first written by the band over a year and a half. Featuring the signature guitar dynamics of Killjo Zapata and charged bass attack of JP Daoust, the song is a sonic ebb and flow affair which speaks to the curious process of past lives and the importance of ceremony to activate current inceptions. Roger Delong provides the drums which cascade through a dynamic break, as Melx waxes somber about finding oneself alive at this point in the timelin

Perhaps the best example of coined phrase "frequency art" - (JP Daoust), Message of the Bodies is a song which utilizes elements of guitar, bass and drums to alternately drive the dark questions ask through a background of doom. The narrative is pointed, questioning the generally (religiously based) role of 'lighted ones' (angels) and the 'dark ones' (daemon), specifically where it comes to an assumed role of protector. The outro of the songs is a blistering 2 minute interchange of distortion, guitars and pronouncements which eventually fade into the same mooded esoteric bass riff with which the song opens.

The Returning is the third release by NME9 in 2025. Calls to the Zep Tepi ride a waves of bass and guitar as a spacious intro expands into driving verses. Seemingly, the calls for presence devolve back to 'the beginning' as the Shimmering Ones appear to have discovered incarnations in this timeline, in this place as a remembering. NME9 treads the boundaries of post punk and deathrock with this one, but goth sensibilities are always present