Oldest Sea’s »Judith Slaying Holofernes« EP available now on limited edition cassette via Glowing Window Recordings!

US atmospheric doom/dark folk outfit Oldest Sea has just released cassette edition of their 2024’s EP »Judith Slaying Holofernes« on February 6th, 2026 via Glowing Window Recordings / Planning For Burial.

Tracklist:
01. How Could The Same God
02. All Shall Love Me And Despair
03. How Could The Same God (Live)
04. All Shall Love Me And Despair (Live)

»Judith Slaying Holofernes« first time on physical format! The original EP on the A side and a live recording of the EP on the B side.

Exclusive »Judith Slaying Holofernes« cassette tapes can be purchased at: Glowing Window Recordings | Planning For Burial

Please grab the digital from oldestsea1.bandcamp.com.

Oldest Sea states: “Thanks to Thom (Planning For Burial) for releasing the cassettes, Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life, Giles Corey) for additional vocals, Matias Van Order Gonzalez (recording engineer), and Dan Lowndes (mastering engineer).

And thanks of course to our live members for helping to bring these songs to life: Kevin Zieber (guitar), Andrew Demarest (bass), and Phylix Almentero (drums).”

Formed in 2017 by songwriter Sam Marandola, Oldest Sea began as one woman’s personal exploration of the darker side of experimental folk music. Having newly expanded the project to a full band, Marandola and company now find themselves passing through ethereal corridors and liminal soundscapes with increasingly heavy steps.

The enlarged sonic palette finds Oldest Sea deftly merging Marandola’s haunting solo musical passages with massive walls of grit and distortion. On their debut EP, »Strange And Eternal« each composition seems to gently undulate its way into existence, all the while building inexorably toward a darkly atmospheric presence of immense proportions. The songs meander along paths adjacent to ambient folk music and the plaintive sounds of Americana, finding their way into the vast ominous territory occupied by doom and post-metal.

Inspired by dreams and distance and the sounds of nature, Marandola combines these influences into pieces that are intensely emotional and evocative, yet simultaneously illusory and diffuse. Listening to the songs on »Strange And Eternal« often feels like trying to recall a particularly intense dream just after waking – a sense of deep meaning and emotional connection is undeniable, though trying to bring to mind the detail of it somehow feels impossible. In this, Oldest Sea represents a unique and welcome entry into the canon of atmospheric heavy music as they continue to expand upon and perfect their otherworldly mystique.

Written and recorded by Sam and Andrew Marandola.
Drums performed and recorded by A.L.N. (Mizmor).
Additional vocals by Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life, Giles Corey).
Mixed by Andrew Marandola at East Of The Rockies.
Mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound.

Tour with Wrekmeister Harmonies:
2/19 Providence, RI at AS220 Black Box with A Monolithic Dome
2/20 Catskill, NY at The Avalon Lounge with Hush
2/21 Brooklyn, NY at The Stone Circle Theatre with Psalm
2/22 Philadelphia, PA at PhilaMOCA with Sadness
2/23 Washington, DC at Rhizome with Sadness

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