Oceans Of Slumber announce new album ‘Where Gods Fear to Speak’

OCEANS OF SLUMBER have announced a new album!

Titled Where Gods Fear To Speak, the upcoming album from the Texas-based progressive metal band is the follow-up to 2022’s Starlight And Ash, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Season Of Mist.

Speaking about the upcoming album, drummer Dobber Beverly says, “this album is a dystopian western or a post-apocalyptic survival movie, somewhere between The Handmaid’s Tale, The Dark Tower and Cormac McCarthy. The whole idea is that Where The Gods Fear To Speak is a movie, and we’ve written the soundtrack. If the world was taken over, like in movie The Book Of Eli, and Gary Oldman had found the Bible and the true power of it, and he was wielding the power of the lord over everybody, those people that were maybe just into their traditional spiritualism or people that were not religious at all, they would be the defectors, so the record is written from the viewpoint of the defectors. The ending credits are our version of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. We wanted to take it back to when the music in movies set the tone for everything.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Poem Of Ecstasy. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from the title track, which was released back in April.

“Every time you make a new record, you think it’s the best,” Dobber says, “but Poem Of Ecstasy is easily one of the best songs we’ve ever written. It sounds like an energetic, pissed-off-band, with enigmatic storytelling and all those magical things.” Vocalist Cammie Beverly adds, “all of the songs on Where Gods Fear to Speak are set in this futuristic, derelict world, where the lower class are rebelling against their overzealous rulers, but Poem Of Ecstasy is the album’s big no-holds-barred love song.”

Watch the official music video for Poem Of Ecstasy here: 

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

Track List:

1. Where Gods Fear To Speak
2. Run From The Light
3. Don’t Come Back From Hell Empty Handed
4. Wish
5. Poem Of Ecstasy
6. The Given Dream
7. I Will Break The Pride Of Your Will
8. Prayer
9. The Impermanence of Fate
10. Wicked Game

Where Gods Fear To Speak is set for release on September 13th via Season Of Mist. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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