Lunar Ark’s debut album »Recurring Nightmare« available now via Trepanation Recordings, Realm And Ritual and Lunar Seas

Boston, Massachusetts based anti-fascist post-metal/sludge band Lunar Ark featuring Realm And Ritual mainman Shawn on vocals stream their debut album, »Recurring Nightmare«, released on September 10th, 2021 via Trepanation Recordings.

Tape release available through Realm And Ritual (North America) and Lunar Seas (Europe).

Tracklist:
01. Torch and Spear
02. Freedom Fever Dream
03. Guillotine

Recorded by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Portland, OR.
Album artwork by Ethan Lee McCarthy (Hell Simulation).
Logo by Moonroot Art.

The world is ending, guided by the Invisible Hand. Humanity, whose capitalistic and hateful disdain for its own has a firm grip on its own throat, is to blame, and it is through monetary gain that the Earth flickers at a slowing pace. This frustration – as a minuscule part of the powerful in society’s ill-fated loyalties – is palpable, and the disconnect between the representatives and represented grows more by the hour.

“The smog surrounds, and the endless sound of those listless shouts sew our burial shroud,” Lunar Ark screams into the abyss. Through earth-shattering sludge and skyborn post-rock, Lunar Ark’s »Recurring Nightmare« speaks of a horror as old as time, intelligent life’s own self-destruction through greedful need and quantified lust.

Breathing musical life into their leftist political views, Lunar Ark’s anti-capitalist and antiracist view of the greater class struggle is paired with a suffocating sound, merging dazzling atmospherics with sub-underground rumblings. »Recurring Nightmare« seats itself at the center of post-metal and sludge/doom metal’s bridge.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well