Ov Sulfur‘s sophomore album “Endless” has been slated to receive a January 16th release date on Century Media Records. Fronted by ex-Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover, the blackened deathcore band tracked this new album with producer Josh Schroeder (Lorna Shore, King 810) once again behind the boards. Schroeder also took on the engineering, mixing and mastering duties.
A second single from this new album, “Evermore“, has just been released, it follows this past June’s “Seed“. Hoover commented:
“When coming up with the theme for ‘Endless‘, which is basically endless suffering and the various ways that could rear its ugly head, we questioned what it would be like to have endless life. This kind of allows it to be a bridge to our earlier anti-organized-religion material, as eternal life is a major tenet of many religions.
In THEORY, living forever sounds incredible, but stop and think about what would come along with it: the death of your loved ones, the world around you gets worse (politically and physically), and no doubt eventual insanity from the eternally stacking heart break. ‘Evermore‘ encapsulates these thoughts, building as the character reaches the point of insanity. Fortunately, it mirrors the build of the song, too. We knew it had to be our album launch single.”
Guitarist/vocalist Chase Wilson added:
This new album also finds Hoover embracing more melodic territory on the tracks “Wither” and “Endless//Loveless“. Hoover stated of that:
“I was originally only going to sing a soft intro to ‘EarthenChase and our vocal producer [for that album] Morgoth heard it, we reworked a bunch of stuff for me to sing more. That’s pushed further here. Chase even taught me to do falsetto in-studio (he actually took a video on his phone where I looked genuinely shocked I hit the notes because it was so new to me).”
Wilson added:
“There is a lot of vocal interplay between the two of us, hinted at on The Burden Ov Faith‘s ‘The Inglorious Archetype,’ inspired by Alice In Chains‘ Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. You can hear that on ‘Evermore,’ and we practically split ‘Wither‘ down the middle; the song is about us both losing grandparents, so it’s super personal.”
There’s no shortage of guest appearances lined up for the album, as Josh Davies of Ingested, Johnny Ciardullo of AngelMaker/Carcosa and Alan Grnja of distant are all featured on the record.
“Endless” track listing:
01 – “Endless//Godless“
02 – “Seed“
03 – “Forlorn“
04 – “Vast Eternal“
05 – “Wither“
06 – “Evermore“
07 – “Dread” (feat. Josh Davies of Ingested)
08 – “Bleak” (feat. Johnny Ciardullo of AngelMaker & Carcosa)
09 – “A World Away” (feat. Alan Grnja of Distant)
10 – “Endless//Loveless“
For pre-orders, see ovsulfurband.lnk.to/Endless-AlbumID.
