Oceans of Slumber have formally unveiled their upcoming album The place Gods Concern to Converse, and dropped a efficiency video for the second single, “Poem of Ecstasy.”
The monitor places the band’s signature darkish and cinematic fashion on full show, and strings collectively quite a few standout moments, sorta giving the texture of a mini-epic. We acquired haunting vocals and a clean piano entrance, with a transition to doom-laden energy steel, culminating with dying growls and blast beats, in some type of a “dystopian grindcore”.
“The place Gods Concern to Converse exists someplace between The Handmaid’s Story, The Darkish Tower, and Cormac McCarthy”, says drummer and primary songwriter Dobber Beverly. “It is half science fiction, a component western gunslinger with a heavy sprint of post-apocalyptic survival”.
“Each time you make a brand new document, you assume it is the very best,” Dobber continues, “however ‘Poem of Ecstasy’ is definitely among the finest songs we have ever written. It seems like an brisk, pissed-off-band, with enigmatic storytelling and all these magical issues”.
“The entire songs on The place Gods Concern to Converse are set in this futuristic, derelict world, the place the decrease class are rebelling towards their overzealous rulers”, says frontwoman Cammie Beverly, “however ‘Poem of Ecstasy’ is the album’s large no-holds-barred love music.”
When writing the lyrics, Cammie was impressed by Blade Runner and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. “Typically, we’re so hellbent on pursuing our desires that we lose sight of the individuals we’re preventing for”, she says. “How are you going to save the world if you cannot even save your self?”
“I believe Cammie is the very best singer in America by far, but when she’s at such a prime degree and we nonetheless can’t break by means of, that simply implies that if we wish to keep the place we’re, we’ve set to work more durable!” Dobber provides. “We all know how good we’re, and the way good the music is, nevertheless it doesn’t repay for us on a regular basis and the brand new document displays that. It’s aggressive, it’s aggravated, nevertheless it tells a narrative. The closing music, “Impermanence Of Destiny” – that’s the tag. It implies that what you’ve got it isn’t a deadly flaw or a mortal wound, and you may change issues and work round these setbacks. So loads of this document is battle songs.”
Pre-order The place Gods Concern to Converse here.
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