Iranian gothic doom metal solo project Shivered announce new full-length album »Chains« and premiere first single/music video »Ruins Of Memories«!
Iranian gothic doom metal solo project Shivered has announced new full-length album, »Chains«, which will be released on November 2nd, 2025.
To celebrate this announcement, Shivered premieres a music video for the first single »Ruins Of Memories«.
Tracklist:
01. The Spiral
02. Ruins of Memories
03. Savor the Fade
04. The Last Winter
05. Human Parasite
06. Hanging Bloom
07. Rebirth in Wrath
08. Chains
Press release:
After »Existential Mourning« (2024), Iranian gothic doom project Shivered returns with a new full-length concept album titled »Chains«, set for release on November 2, 2025. A concept record built on themes of mass suicide, psychological collapse, and the quiet end of civilization, »Chains« offers a bleak and immersive exploration of grief, disillusionment, and loss of self.
Eight slow-burning tracks shaped by melancholic riffs, stark melodic lines, and emotionally restrained vocals. The sound draws heavily from the lineage of gothic doom – atmospheric yet grounded, sorrowful yet composed. Written, performed, and produced by Mohammad Maki, the album marks a continued evolution in Shivered’s artistic direction: more focused, more intimate, and more suffocating in its emotional weight.
Recommended for listeners of Katatonia, Swallow The Sun, Paradise Lost, and Warning. »Chains« is not a reinvention, but a refinement – a precise, deeply personal document of despair at the edge of collapse.
Mohammad Maki on the new album »Chains«: “I had this vision of an apocalyptic landscape, where humans hang from chains, a mass suicide marking the end of humanity. Chains became the embodiment of that vision: a collision of fiction and reality, where grief mutates into madness and ultimately leads to destruction. The single »Ruins Of Memories« reflects a time when all joy is gone, when the past holds the only good moments, and nothing in the present can bring light anymore.”
Short band biography:
Shivered is a gothic doom metal project formed in 2015 in Iran by Mohammad Maki, who serves as vocalist, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. After releasing the debut EP »Bereaved And Gone Insane« in 2016 and full-length »Journey To Fade« in 2017, the project went on hiatus before returning in 2024 with the self-produced album »Existential Mourning« – a bleak, introspective work exploring isolation and spiritual decay. Shivered’s upcoming concept album »Chains«, set for release in October 2025, delves into mass suicide, psychological collapse, and the collision of fiction and apocalyptic reality.
Info about the new album »Chains«:
»Chains« is an 8-track concept album that blurs the line between fiction and reality, exploring the psychological unraveling of a man consumed by grief. As his connection to the world dissolves, he envisions a global end through a chilling act of mass suicide. After taking his own life, his spirit becomes the harbinger of humanity’s downfall, summoning spectral chains that descend as nooses upon every soul on earth. Set against a backdrop of apocalyptic dread and emotional collapse, »Chains« delivers a bleak and immersive journey into the darkest corners of the human psyche.
Band discography:
»Bereaved And Gone Insane« EP (May 25, 2016)
»Journey To Fade« LP (May 20, 2017)
»Disfigured Heart« Single (February 20, 2018)
»Existential Mourning« (May 20, 2024)
»Chains« LP (November 2, 2025)
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