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Gold Vinyl. Portland progressive sludge masters Lord Dying transform tragedy into triumph. A pair of albums powered by skull-crushing riffs and confrontational howls introduced the doom dogs to the world. In 2019, they delivered Mysterium Tremendum, a record Kerrang! Declared a “prog-metal masterpiece.”
The heady and adventurous existential meditation on death kicked off a trilogy. That story continues in 2023 with an increasingly ambitious follow-up, the aptly named Clandestine Transcendence. “Ultimately, the album is about self-discovery and becoming what you want to become in the face of adversity, no matter how the cards are stacked against you,” Olson says. “I’m not really a spiritual person. But a lyric on the album talks about the transformation of energy, how matter cannot be created or destroyed. It’s from a scientific standpoint.” He laughs. “But maybe the science is spiritual.”
- Tracks
- Credits
- 1 The Universe Is Weeping
- 2 I Am Nothing I Am Everything
- 3 Unto Becoming
- 4 Final Push Into the Sun
- 5 Dancing on the Emptiness
- 6 Facing the Incomprehensible
- 7 A Brief Return to Physical Form
- 8 A Bond Broken By Death
- 9 Break in the Clouds (In the Darkness of Our Minds)
- 10 Soul Metamorphosis
- 11 Swimming in the Absence
- 12 The Endless Road Home