Exclusive Premiere: Sleeping Giant stream debut album »The Beauty Of Obliteration« in full; out this Friday on Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records!
Reykjavík, Iceland based stoner/doom metal band Sleeping Giant premiere their debut album »The Beauty Of Obliteration« in full ahead of its release this Friday, February 6th, 2026 via Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records.
Tracklist:
01. Conqueror
02. Mobilizer Of Evil
03. The Monk
04. Slay The King Of Hell
05. Venom Ripper, Gorgon Blaster
06. Abysmal Flame
Courtesy of Grand Sounds PR:
»The Beauty Of Obliteration« marks the long awaited debut full-length by Icelandic heavy psychonauts Sleeping Giant. Recorded in 2024 at Stúdíó Paradís, the album captures the band as a tightly knit live unit, delivering a dense and crushing blend of stoner doom sludge and extreme metal influences.
Built around sinister yet memorable riffs, heavy groovy drums and commanding vocal performances, the album explores themes of human hubris, inner darkness and moral decay, staying true to classic doom metal aesthetics while pushing into harsher and more aggressive territory.
Raw, hypnotic and uncompromising, »The Beauty Of Obliteration« is the sound of a long dormant giant finally awakened.
Sleeping Giant is:
Árni Björn Björnsson – Rhythm Guitars
Ásmundur Jóhannsson – Drums
Einar Darri Einarsson – Bass
Finnbogi Jökull Pétursson – Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Guðmundur Hrannar Eiríksson – Lead Guitars
Oddur Freyr Þorsteinsson – Vocals
“Like glaciers moving forever forward on their slow journey, Sleeping Giant’s music evokes the slowness and heaviness of continental drift, and with debut album »The Beauty Of Obliteration«, look to cement themselves as premier exponents from that beautiful country.” — Martyn Coppack, Echoes and Dust
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well