Australian doom merchants OCEANLORD have released the haunting new single, Come Home, taken from their forthcoming new album “Kingdom Cold“.
Oceanlord’s Peter Willmott says of the track: “Come Home was written as a haunted tragedy, prompted by the thought that if ‘Home is where the heart is’, where is home when my heart has died?
The swirling psychedelic guitar and crushing riffs follow a journey from love to guilt to grief and death. Perhaps a morbid reminder to come home while you still can, or a thought that all separated roads will join eventually as we find our home in the final darkness.”
Kingdom Cold, the bands unfathomable debut is slated for release on May 26. Pre-order here http://lnk.spkr.media/oceanlord-kingdom-cold
Behold! Hark! From the dark depths of the southern oceans, Australian doom trio OCEANLORD have conjured an eldritch monster of an album with their tentacled debut “Kingdom Cold”.
Frying guitars with an extra helping of thick fuzz and a crusty top deliver a tasty doom sound. Songs that range from very slow via slow to mid-tempo with occasional outbursts of energy also stand firmly on the rock solid ground of this classic metal genre. OCEANLORD display traces of the American, British and Swedish schools of thought with the clean vocals slightly tilting towards the latter.
Yet below the surface of all the time-honoured elements traditionally associated with doom, there is an extra layer of darkness lurking in these tracks. A foreboding sense of dread, madness, and unspeakable horrors is creeping in to replace the well-worn theme of melancholia usually accompanying the style. This sets OCEANLORD clearly apart from most of their peers. This is no accident, as the Australians are very openly inspired by the horror genre and the writings of New England author Howard Phillips Lovecraft in particular.
