Seattle-based doom lords To End It All are back with a new album, Of Blood and Memory out tomorrow (April 19), but you can hear it and get super sad with us first. About the new record, the band say:
“Here we illuminate sorrow, grief, loss, and how losing one integral to our sense of place in the world expels us from the houses of confidence, confuses the mind, propels our hearts through places of knives, anger, nostalgia, fondness, flagellation, acute pain, smoldering anxiety, sunken affect, tension, blankness, bliss, relief, in no predictable or necessary order.
“Rituals and traditions cannot offer all that’s needed as time races on. How can we continue once we’ve lost the physical presence of one so cherished? We meet these moments sometimes with fullness, or in retreat, in terror or in calm acceptance. We may at one point refuse to befriend death … and yet embrace it as a confidant in another mood, each day both a whisper and a thousand hours, each night both meditation and curse.
“These songs are meant as temples of mourning, of fire, of blood, of memories, built upon the loss of mothers, of grandmothers, of every past and future beloved.”
Like their previous work, this record is haunting and slow, but it brings with it a new energy of rebirth and renewal. We can’t wait for this one to drop, and now you don’t have to. Preorder the album here.
