Murmurations, by Everest Queen

Murmurations

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1.	Sunken Thorn 09:30	info	buy track
2.	Treachery & Shadows 07:11	info	buy track
3.	Murmurations 03:30	info	buy track
4.	Dormant River 09:46	info	buy track
5.	Divergence 07:03	info	buy track
6.	The Burial 06:54	info	buy track

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Limited gold vinyl edition of Everest Queen's 'Murmurations' album, analogue mastered for vinyl by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna).

Also available as a bundle with 'Dead Eden' on CD here: survivingsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ltd-bundle-everest-queen-vinyl-dead-eden-cd-digipak

CD and cassette editions are also available through Trepanation Recordings:
everestqueen.bandcamp.com/album/murmurations

Surviving Sounds proudly present the sophomore album from Hertfordshire, UK based post-sludge metal band Everest Queen. Murmurations is the acclaimed follow up to their 2019 debut Dead Eden and shows a growth and deepening of Everest Queen's sound, finding their most detailed and expansive songs to date. Murmurations builds vastly on their progressive sludge metal upbringing, exploring greater sonic depth. The band also brave introspective lyrical themes drawn from personal challenges and traumas, expressed in catharsis through a spiritual and psychological lens.

Murmurations opens in familiar, yet sharpened ground with a titanic barrage of angular sludge riffs on 'Sunken Thorn', followed immediately with an energetic riff workout on 'Treachery & Shadows'. But what lies beyond draws from a greater pool of influences, especially from post-metal, space rock, ambient and drone. Meditative tribal drumming and whirring drones on the title track transcend into Floydian guitar landscapes colliding with the dreaminess of Cocteau Twins on ten minute epic 'Dormant River'. The melancholic and stirring post-rock of 'Divergence' then builds as a heavy, cerebral journey into the reflective finale 'The Burial', pairing hushed clean guitar and harmonious singing with monumental riffs - a lament on death, grief and the beyond, spun with direct heartfelt honesty.

With the band harbouring plenty of sound engineering experience - and guitarist Adam Taylor previously assisting in the recording of Pupil Slicer's outstanding Mirrors album - Everest Queen felt confident enough to self record and mix Murmurations from the ground up. This has allowed the band to take more risks, explore new horizons and make their most personal record to date.

This is Everest Queen as you've never heard them before.

FFO: Cult Of Luna, Bossk, Sleep, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins.

Since the acclaim of their 2019 album Dead Eden, Everest Queen have catapulted themselves into being a staple of the UK's heavy underground - remaining fiercely independent in the process. Everest Queen have performed with the likes of Tribulation, Monolord, Bong, Elephant Tree, MWWB, Kurokuma, zhOra and many more, with appearances at Bloodstock and Siege Of Limerick festivals.

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released November 4, 2022

Written and performed by Everest Queen.
Recorded, engineered and produced by Everest Queen.
Mixed by Adam C. Taylor.
Analogue vinyl mastering by Magnus Lindberg at VRTKL Audio.
Artwork by Katie Saldanha.
Photography by John Powell and Hannah Beeton.
Drum recording and engineering by Joseph Legget.

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