ALBUM REVIEW: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me – Lorna Shore

LORNA SHORE have always been ambitious, but their fifth album I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me represents something seismic: the first time vocalist Will Ramos has ditched fictional narratives to mine his own experiences. The result? Sixty-six minutes of symphonic deathcore that feels more urgent, more necessary, and infinitely more devastating than anything they’ve crafted before.

This shift from fantasy to autobiography transforms everything. Prison Of Flesh draws from Ramos‘ family history of dementia, blending his gnarliest death growls and squealing shrieks as tremolo-picked guitars wage war against glimmering piano keys. It’s breakdown feels like an industrial drill destroying your cranial cavity, soundtracking it’s narrator’s genuinely unsettling descent into madness.

Similarly, Glenwood tackles Ramos’ estrangement from his father with devastating honesty, built around a singular guitar note that echoes like someone catching their breath before his bandmates trip the wire for a surround-sound symphonic deathcore assault on the senses.

Musically, this is LORNA SHORE firing on all cylinders. Austin Archey deserves particular praise; his drum work is absolutely monolithic, a constant barrage of blast-beats and double bass that never overwhelms Andrew O’Connor’s orchestral arrangements. Meanwhile, Michael Yager’s bass lines are genuinely destructive; War Machine‘s rhythm section sounds like it was designed to demolish buildings rather than eardrums, whilst the thrash-metal guitars inject themselves with adrenaline before a shotgun-blast of demonic brutality.

Without sacrificing its brutality, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’s pacing is masterful. Unbreakable, the shortest song on the album clocking in at just under five minutes, delivers their most accessible moment—melodic death metal riffs roll through an infectiously catchy chorus made for stadium-sized scream-alongs, proving they can write massive songs without sacrificing heaviness. Lionheart pushes this further with dual-harmony vocal approaches and symphonic grandeur that’ll equally aggravate the elitists whilst converting everyone else. 

The power solos throughout are shamelessly indulgent yet never feel excessive. Adam De Micco and O’Connor deserve their flowers for their work here, particularly the glittering dual solos during In Darkness, which arrive like a complete surprise towards its close in the best possible way. These aren’t just technical showcases; they’re emotional peaks that punctuate I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’s narrative arc.

Simply put, this is the album that’ll push LORNA SHORE beyond deathcore’s confines. If any band from this scene is destined to headline Download, it’s them. Forevermore‘s nearly ten-minute finale alone proves they’re operating on a different level—symphonic orchestration that wouldn’t go amiss in a Hollywood blockbuster, building to a shattering array of basslines and blast-beats that feels genuinely epic.

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me is to deathcore what The Satanist is to black metal—a genre-defining masterpiece that elevates its source material beyond traditional boundaries. Where SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL are conquering festival main stages, LORNA SHORE are transcending deathcore entirely, crafting something that demands attention from metal’s wider scope.

Rating: 10/10

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me is set for release on September 12th via Century Media Records. 

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