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 lighted ones ("For we are 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