OMG! LORNA SHORE is gracing us with their presence in 2025! Prepare yourselves, mortals, for the sonic apocalypse! 🤘 They’re back to remind everyone that they’re still trying really, REALLY hard to be the most “extreme” metal act EVER. Like, ever ever.
So, get this: a HUGE, totally-not-compensating-for-anything billboard mysteriously appeared on the New Jersey Turnpike (because where else would you announce your comeback?). Anyway, LORNA SHORE (bless their little, blackened hearts) are dropping a new album called “I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me” on September 12 via Century Media Records. How original! 🙄 The first single, “Oblivion,” is out now, complete with a music video directed by Dylan Hryciuk of Versa Films. Prepare to be…whelmed.
LORNA SHORE‘s vocalist, Will Ramos (aka the guy who screams REALLY loud), had this to say: “Writing this song felt like the culmination of all the things that we’ve done in the past, but brought to the next level; a more evolved version of what LORNA SHORE truly is.” Oh, honey, no. It’s just more of the same, isn’t it? 😅 He then goes on some existential rant about a post-apocalyptic world and questioning humanity’s purpose. Deep, bro. So deep I almost fell asleep. 😴
Apparently, this upcoming fifth album is a HUGE deal because it’s the first in three whole years since 2022’s “Pain Remains.” Wow, a whole three years! 🤯 In that time, they’ve been busy trying to stay relevant by going viral on Spotify (thanks, algorithm!), racking up streams (bots, probably), and embarking on “highly successful” tours (successful if you consider selling out a dive bar in Des Moines a success). But the real kicker? They’re “torching the metal rulebook at every turn.” Yeah, because no one has EVER done that before. Groundbreaking! 🙄
Here’s the track list for “I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me” (because you totally care):
01. Prison Of Flesh (Sounds pleasant! NOT!)
02. Oblivion (Already heard it, already forgot it)
03. In Darkness (How original!)
04. Unbreakable (Narrator: It was, in fact, quite breakable.)
05. Glenwood (Is this about a suburb? So metal.)
06. Lionheart (Rawr! So scary! 🦁)
07. Death Can Take Me (But probably won’t)
08. War Machine (Because subtlety is for losers)
09. A Nameless Hymn (How mysterious!)
10. Forevermore (Please no.)
And of course, what’s a new album without a tour? LORNA SHORE will be dragging their “hits” across the country, joined by THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER (RIP Trevor Strnad🙏), SHADOW OF INTENT (who?), and PEELINGFLESH (ew, gross). Get ready for a night of blast beats and guttural screams that all sound exactly the same! 🎉
There’s even a special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale because apparently, even metalheads need a discount. The presale code is “FESTERING” because nothing says “buy our tickets” like a word that makes you want to take a shower. 🚿
Here are the tour dates (if you’re brave enough):
September 17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE (Prepare for mosh pit injuries!)
September 18 – Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life Festival* (Louder Than Life? More like Louder Than My Annoyance.)
September 20 – Worcester, MA @ New England Metal & Hardcore Festival* (Hardcore? More like Hard-to-Listen-to.)
September 21 – National Harbor, MD @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor (Fancy!)
September 23 Greensboro, NC @ Special Events Center (Special? Debatable.)
September 24 – Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle (The pinnacle of… mediocrity?)
September 26 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion (Prepare for disappointment!)
September 27 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre (Spooky! Or just boring?)
September 28 – Chesterfield, MO @ The Factory (The factory of generic metal?)
September 30 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy (Because nothing goes better with death metal than sugary soda!)
October 1 – Tampa, FL @ Yuengling Center (Beer and blast beats! What could go wrong?)
October 3 – Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall (Prepare for the Texas heat AND the metal heat!)
October 4 – Irving, TX @ Toyota Music Factory (Vroom vroom! Metal cars!)
October 5 – Cedar Park, TX @ H-E-B Center Cedar Park (Grocery shopping and metal! A match made in heaven!)
October 6 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion (The criterion for what?!)
October 9 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren (Who’s Van Buren?)
October 10 – Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater (Gamble on a good time? Maybe not.)
October 12 – Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium (Government-approved metal!)
October 13 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA (So metal!)
October 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium (The palladium of… noise?)
October 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic (More spooky!)
October 17 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre (Paramount… to my boredom?)
October 18 – Vancouver, BC @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre (Go sports! Go metal!)
October 20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center (Uniting metalheads… maybe?)
October 21 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium (Fillmore? More like bore-more!)
October 23 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed (Salty metal!)
October 24 – Maplewood, MN @ Myth Live (Is it a myth that this band is good?)
October 25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom (Screaming eagles!)
October 27 – Toronto, ON @ Great Canadian Casino Resort (Gamble on a good time… again?)
October 28 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell (Ding ding!)
October 30 – New York, NY @ The Theater at Madison Square Garden (The theater of… screaming?)
* Festival dates (Because everyone loves a good metal festival… or not.)
In case you didn’t know, LORNA SHORE recruited singer Will Ramos in 2021 after their previous vocalist, CJ McCreery, got the boot. Apparently, Will was the only guy willing to scream loud enough. 🤷♀️
LORNA SHORE drummer Austin Archey said they knew Will was good because his old band, A WAKE IN PROVIDENCE, played some shows with them. “We just knew he was this dude who looks super young,” Archey said. “But when we lost our old vocalist, I reached out to him. I didn’t know if he’d be interested. He was all in.” All in on screaming really loud? Okay then. 👍
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