Australian instrumental atmospheric sludge/post-metal solo project Vultures stream new EP »Truly, We Were As Gods MMXXVI«
Australian instrumental atmospheric sludge/post-metal solo project Vultures is streaming new EP, »Truly, We Were As Gods MMXXVI«, which was just released on February 27th, 2026.
Tracklist:
01. Truly, We Were As Gods
02. And The Earth Shall Swallow Us Whole
03. Truly, We Were As Gods (2010 Demo)
04. And The Eart Shall Swallow Us Whole (2010 Demo)
Vultures is a solo project by Australian musician Sam Dishington known for his work in Separatist, Départe, Úkryt, Quiet Waters, Idle Pulse, No Lower Place To Fall, Verëvkina, Writhe & Meticulous Despoilment.
Sam Dishington elaborates on »Truly, We Were As Gods« and founding his personal art & music platform Sacred Tongue:
“My friends, it brings me great joy and no small amount of weird and uncomfortable feelings to announce my latest ‘random thing I’ve decided to do’, Sacred Tongue.
Buckle up, this is a long one, but it’s important to me that I give myself space to say my piece. Read on if you’re interested; if not, the links to the music are in the comments. I hope you enjoy.
The last 3 years or so of my life have been complicated, wildly uncomfortable, and at times, downright miserable. Through loss, grief, and uncertainty, my foundations were shaken in ways they had never been shaken before, and there were genuinely times when I didn’t know if I was going to survive it. But I did, glory to God.
I found myself at a crossroads where I had to make a choice – to run towards God, or to run away. I chose to run towards. It was the right choice. The ensuing process was one of complete and utter unravelling, but not for the purpose of pulling apart as it might seem from the outside, or even as it might have felt at the time. No, it was for the purpose of untangling in my heart and in my head what had become so densely knotted and warped over the years that I hardly recognised it anymore. I was completely undone in order that I could be totally rebuilt.
As I wrestled through that process, I genuinely believed for quite some time that my years as a musician and a songwriter were done. I had lost all of my creative drive. All inspiration, all ambition, all desire to continue doing this was gone. And, after some time, I was ok with it. I’d had a pretty good run; I’d toured internationally, released plenty of music, met some wonderful people and made some beautiful lifelong friends along the way. I didn’t feel like I needed to mourn the end of this part of my life, as defining as it had been, because I was happy with where I had been.
But, right at the end of 2025, I started to feel that itch again, for the first time in a long, long time. I started playing guitar recreationally again, I started actually working on music actively again, and I even started collaborating with friends, something anyone who knows me knows I’ve always struggled with. As if by the sudden opening of some grand cosmic floodgates, my love of music and creativity came rushing back in, and with it, a newfound understanding of my own mind and creative process.
Anyone who’s followed me or my journey as a musician knows that I am erratic, and exceedingly prone to jumping from one idea to another, from genre to genre, vibe to vibe, just based on where my head is at in any given moment. Random one-off projects and stylistic shifts are found all throughout my body of work. And, in the spirit of complete honesty, I used to deeply hate it. I was cripplingly self-conscious about it. I compared myself to the people I look up to as musicians and artists (which is a whole other problem in and of itself), and where I saw consistency and cohesiveness in their art, I saw chaos and inconsistency in my own, and it drove me mad. It made me feel like I had no direction, no ‘sound’, no consistency, like my work was just the scattergun ramblings of someone who didn’t know what he was doing. But, somehow, this rediscovery of ‘me’ as a musician and a creative brought with it a newfound acceptance of the way my brain works and the way my creative side expresses itself, in all it’s erratic, chaotic, scattergun ways. I’m not used to it yet, but, I’m trying to embrace it. And that’s where Sacred Tongue comes in.
Sacred Tongue isn’t a new band or solo project, nor is it a new record label or business venture – it’s simply an exhaustive portfolio of my work as a musician and occasional art person. I am bringing all of my music into one place, getting rid of all the extra Facebook/Bandcamp/Youtube accounts and making this a sort of ‘one stop shop’ for all my creative output. You will find everything I’ve ever released on the Bandcamp page linked in the comments.
I chose the name Sacred Tongue to represent this growing body of work because I believe that music is the language I’ve been given through which my soul communes with God.
‘So what’s this music I’m listening to then?’
A short time ago, I rediscovered a recording I had made several years prior, with no date listed on it, that never got an official release; it was only distributed via text message to people I thought would like it, which wasn’t many. I did some digging through messages and Facebook posts and eventually discovered evidence that this recording took place in 2010. 16 whole ass years ago. After I sat with this information for a moment, I realised that that made this piece of music my first, EVER, solo project. Prior to this, all I had done was Separatist, which was still an active live band at the time. This recording pre-dated Départe, Quiet Waters, or anything else I had ever done. It was also my first foray into doom, atmospheric, and ‘post’ music, which I would call some of the core, defining elements that underpin everything I do to this day.
So I re-learned it by ear, and re-recorded it from scratch. That’s what you’re hearing in this video. I decided that there was no better or more suitable way to relaunch myself as a creative than to pay tribute to where it all started.
The project was called Vultures, and the 25-minute, two-track release was called Truly, We Were As Gods. And here it is, reborn from the ground up, in 2026. You can hear the full EP on YouTube via the link in the comments, or on your preferred streaming platform. Or if it interests you, the release on Bandcamp (also linked below) includes the original demo recordings as well as the new ones. Warning – they are very, very rough.
Anyone who knows me knows my deep aversion to self-promotion, especially when it comes to social media. I don’t really like talking about myself or my work, unless it’s of my own volition. I’m not interested in trying to game the algorithm or jumping through the hoops that online marketing requires these days. I have no interest in what format is ‘better for reach’, whether it’s singles, EPs, or albums – I just want to ‘make stuff I like’ and share it with you in a way that’s true to me and the particular ways my brain works. So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m a musician, not a content creator.
So, if you don’t trust the algorithm to keep you up to date, but you don’t want to miss a new release, I’d suggest you head over to Bandcamp or YouTube via the links in the comments and click ‘Follow’ or ‘Subscribe’, that way you’ll get an email or notification every time I release new music.”
All instruments and programming by Sam Dishington.
Recorded, produced and mastered by Sam Dishington.
Cover art by Sam Dishington.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well