Following the receipt of an ARIA award for Asymmetry (the first time the band has won an ARIA award), Goddard stated in a January 2014 interview that “it’s [the ARIA award] just one of those things where it’s almost like it validates us in other people’s eyes.” Goddard further explained that the album was created as a reaction to his perception of a current musical trend, whereby “even heavy progressive music to me is losing a lot of the human characteristics, gridlocking everything and cutting out all the air between the guitar, the strums, and all that”. Goddard announced that the band would undertake a national Australian tour with Dead Letter Circus and sleepmakeswaves during January 2014. He and Mark Hosking appear in the 2014 documentary film Metal Down Under .
Won ARIA award and announced Australian tour
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