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LONE WANDERER Release First Single & Video “Existence Nullified” | New Album Exequiae Will Be Released on January 30th

Posted in doom metal, funeral doom, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on December 13, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

With their third album Exequiae (Latin for “funeral rites”), Lone Wanderer from Freiburg im Breisgau/Germany makes a striking statement in the realm of Funeral Doom. The band’s High Roller debut continues the thematic line of its predecessor The Faustian Winter, from the end of Faustian culture to inner grief and existential despair.

Watch “Existence Nullified” (LYRIC VIDEO) HERE

“Thematically and musically, we’ve never been closer to the core of Funeral Doom than with these five songs,” explains songwriter and guitarist Bruno Schotten. The tracks, including the nearly 25-minute centerpiece ‘To Rest Eternally’, combine majestic slowness, dense harmonies, and overwhelming heaviness. “The extended length of this track wasn’t intentional, but a logical necessity of the theme.”

Musically, Exequiae marks a high point in the band’s development: “Despite extensive excursions into elaborate harmonies, a red thread runs through the album. Including some more death-doomy passages, it sounds darker and more cryptic than ever.” The artwork, in keeping with the quartet’s tradition, is by Romantic painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, whose ‘Procession in the Fog’ captures the album’s grave stillness.

“We oversaw every step of the production, from the first guitar note to the final mix. This album is completely our work,” Schotten emphasizes. Exequiae is a funeral mass in slow motion, majestic, despairing, uncompromising – and stands as the band’s most compelling statement to date, treating Funeral Doom as a true art form.

TRACK-LISTING:
01 Anhedonia’
02 Epistemology of the Passed
03 Existence Nullified
04 Life’s Lost Vanity
05 To Rest Eternally

LINE-UP:
Bruno Schotten – Vocals Guitar
Jonas Weber – Guitar
Simon Brooker – Bass
Jakob Zeblin – Drums

DISCOGRAPHY:
Principles (EP, 2014)
The Majesty of Loss (2016)
The Faustian Winter (2020)
Exequiae (2026)

ON-LINE:
https://www.facebook.com/lonewandererdoom
https://www.instagram.com/lonewandererdoom
https://lonewanderer.bandcamp.com/album/the-faustian-winter
https://www.hrrecords.de/

Source: High Roller Records

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EVOKEN: American Death/Funeral Doom Emissaries To Release Mendacium Full-Length October 17th On Profound Lore Records

Posted in death doom, funeral doom, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , , , on August 18, 2025 by Metal Odyssey

Photo by Eva Tusquets

“Matins” Single Now Playing + Preorders Available

Stream EVOKEN’s “Matins” HERE.

The most prominent and significant American death/funeral doom emissaries EVOKEN succeed their 2018 landmark Hypnagogia album with their stunning seventh full-length opus, Mendacium, set for release on October 17th on Profound Lore Records. Mendacium is a work that will reveal itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums among their unparalleled repertoire.

Where Hypnagogia would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, Mendacium takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s Quietus and Antithesis Of Light masterworks, all while still encapsulating the tectonic-shifting nature of their Caress Of The Void and Atra Mors releases and venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.

To signal this shift in sound harking back to this previous era, the band enlisted the services of producer Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their Antithesis Of Light and Quietus albums respectively. The resulting Mendacium captures a sepulchral heaviness saturated in ambience with even more of an emphasis on deathlike dread and anguish; an ambience reflecting the depths and catacombs of an ancient cathedral or monastery, ultimately defining Mendacium as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.

Thematically, Mendacium bestows an intriguing concept and story. It tells the tale of a fourteenth century elder Benedictine monk with malady from illness preventing him from leaving his room within the monastery he dwells within. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind?

In advance of the release of Mendacium, today the band unveils the album’s first single, “Matins,” noting of the track, “‘Matins’ is a peek into a reality.”

Stream EVOKEN’s “Matins” HERE.

Mendacium, which features cover art by Worthless, will be released on CD, LP and digital formats. 

Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.

Mendacium – Track Listing:

  1. Matins
  2. Lauds
  3. Prime
  4. Terce
  5. Sext
  6. None
  7. Vesper
  8. Compline

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” – Seneca

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https://www.instagram.com/evoken_doom_official

https://www.profoundlorerecords.com

Source: EARSPLIT PR

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