Dool announce new album ‘Summerland’

DOOL have announced a new album!

Titled Summerland, the upcoming album from the Dutch dark rockers is their sophomore full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Prophesy Productions.

The upcoming album was recorded at DAFT Studios in Malmédy, Belgium, and Studio Cobra in Stockholm, Sweden, with Martin Ehrencrona [TRIBULATION, IN SOLITUDE]. Mix and mastering were handled by CULT OF LUNA‘s drummer Magnus Lindberg in Redmount Studio Stockholm. As guests, DOOL invited Per Wiberg [OPETH, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, CANDLEMASS] on Hammond organ, backing vocalist Farida Lemouchi [THE DEVIL’S BLOOD] and Okoi Jones [BÖLZER], who contributed spoken words to The Well’s Run Dry.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist/guitarist Ryanne van Dorst says, “our debut Here Now, There Then was a big experiment because we could not foresee at all how the band would sound. I took the skeletons of songs I had written to the other members, and we just started to jam, seeing what would happen. That was what we recorded, but we only found our own style while playing gigs during the last few years. The material kept growing on stage, so on the Love Like Blood EP, you could already hear that we had become more confident.”

“The term Summerland comes from paganism and refers to heaven, nirvana or whatever else you’d like to call it. Since I usually write from experience and about what keeps me awake at night, I was asking myself what makes me happy on this existential plane and how the ideal afterlife would look like. This became a recurring motif throughout the lyrics in the shapes of sex, magic, psychedelics and many other means to invoke this Summerland in the here and now.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming record; titled Sulphur & Starlight. Speaking about the song, van Dorst says, “Sulphur & Starlight is a song about dualism. The reflection and the reflected, two sides of the same mirror. What is left of one Self in the eye of the Other and vice versa? It is the opening track of Summerland and makes a great starting point for the journey through the album’s theme.”

Listen to Sulphur & Starlight here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Sulphur & Starlight
2. Wolf Moon
3. God Particle
4. Summerland
5. A Glass Forest
6. The Well’s Run Dry
7. Ode To The Future
8. Be Your Sins
9. Dust & Shadow

Summerland is set for release on April 10th via Prophesy Productions.

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