Lorna Shore is trying to tell a story throughout their songs and not just showboat on their instrument. This is DENSE music, but it is DENSE in the best possible way. Now, it’s not the easiest or the catchiest listening experience. When Slayer sing about war or the undead, it’s never REALLY about war or the undead. It consists in mostly difficult and abstract imagery about being caught between life and death (or between Earth and hell), but it’s vague and universal enough for you to be able to superpose your personal experience to it. The lyrical content is perhaps the least important part of …And I Return to Nothingness because Will Ramos uses his voice as such an instrument, but it works anyway. All three songs on the EP fucking obliterate, but the title song is the very best one. Lorna Shore is thoroughly unafraid of being extreme in every possible sense of the term. I mean, it’s a lot to take it but I’ve never quite heard anything like this before. It is driven through its six minutes length by a soaring melody that Will Ramos actually shrieks himself. The title song is so full of hooks it once again borderlines on corny, but it never quite capsizes into it. It’s a total work of heavy metal art in you will.ĭid I mention that shit was catchy? Because it’s catchy as hell. A lot of bands incorporated unlikely influences in their music before, but it was mostly to shape its edges. …And I Return to Nothingness definitely isn’t the easiest EP to wrap your mind around because it’s trying to be everything at the same time. It sounds therefore both crazy and liberating at the same time. Lorna Shore reappropriates the corniest elements of extreme metal and ennobles them again. You gotta love the sheer balls of trying to do this on a record (and in a genre) that mostly takes itself seriously. The next song Of The Abyss, features fucking keyboard and choruses, for fuck’s sake. It has the melody of death metal, the grandeur of a black metal song and the sick, almost-but-not-quite-ridiculous breakdowns of hardcore.Ī lot of bands pride themselves in their changes of tempo and their complex song structures, but Lorna Shore really mastered the art of making you travel within the same song. The mid-paced, melancholic guitar riff layered over the balls-to-the-walls drumming of Austin Archey and the multifaceted performance by Will Ramos is perhaps my favourite touch. It goes in every fucking direction at the same time and yet sound so cohesive. Those dates are below, along with Celestial Shore’s two Brooklyn release shows and a west coast tour just announced for November!ġ0/22/14 - Brooklyn, NY Baby’s All Right - CMJ Daycare Party (8:40pm, 146 Broadway) $ġ0/22/14 - Brooklyn, NY The Shop - Prison Art Showcase (10:30pm, 234 Starr St.) +ġ0/25/14 - Brooklyn, NY Union Pool - Team Clermont Showcase (11:30pm, 484 Union Ave.This song took planet metal by storm because of its multiple personalities. PRE-ORDER: Celestial Shore Enter Ghost LP/CD/DIG/PKGĪnd if you’re in NYC this week, check out Celestial Shore’s parade of CMJ shows, including Saturday’s Team Clermont showcase, presented by Hometapes and featuring CS labelmates Leverage Models. We’re making more, and we want you to have one first. We’re also offering a special package that includes the new and already sought-after Enter Ghost t-shirt that lucky ducks have picked up at CS shows this summer. Today you can pre-order Celestial Shore’s new album, Enter Ghost on LP, CD, and Digital formats. It’s tumbling and elastic – and, if it’s possible to set the mood for an online ordering experience, it will: Celestial Shore Enter Ghost Now Available for Pre-OrderĬMJ dates, release shows, and west coast tour announced!įirst, turn on “ Animal Ratio.” We shared it with the world yesterday on Brooklyn Vegan.
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