Photo by: Anabel DFlux
Nevada blackened deathcore outfit Ov Sulfur will release their sophomore album, Endless, on January 16th through Century Media Records. The record was produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Josh Schroeder, who helmed their debut, 2023’s The Burden Ov Faith. Guests set to appear on the album include Ingested’s Josh Davies, Johnny Ciardullo of AngelMaker/Carcosa, and Distant’s Alan Grnja. The effort will also see vocalist Ricky Hoover expanding his vocal horizons on the songs “Wither” and “Endless//Loveless”. Speaking of what to expect, he said:
“I was originally only going to sing a soft intro to ‘Earthen’. Chase [Wilson] and our vocal producer [for that album] Morgoth heard it, we reworked a bunch of stuff for me to sing more. That’s pushed further here. Chase even taught me to do falsetto in-studio (he actually took a video on his phone where I looked genuinely shocked I hit the notes because it was so new to me).”
Guitarist Chase Wilson shared:
“There is a lot of vocal interplay between the two of us, hinted at on The Burden Ov Faith‘s ‘The Inglorious Archetype’, inspired by Alice In Chains‘ Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. You can hear that on ‘Evermore’, and we practically split ‘Wither‘ down the middle; the song is about us both losing grandparents, so it’s super personal.”
The record announcement is accompanied by the premiere of a music video for their new single “Evermore”. Hoover said of the new song:
“When coming up with the theme for ‘Endless‘, which is basically endless suffering and the various ways that could rear its ugly head, we questioned what it would be like to have endless life. This kind of allows it to be a bridge to our earlier anti-organized-religion material, as eternal life is a major tenet of many religions.
In THEORY, living forever sounds incredible, but stop and think about what would come along with it: the death of your loved ones, the world around you gets worse (politically and physically), and no doubt eventual insanity from the eternally stacking heart break. ‘Evermore‘ encapsulates these thoughts, building as the character reaches the point of insanity. Fortunately, it mirrors the build of the song, too. We knew it had to be our album launch single.”
Wilson adds:
“When I finished recording it, I kind of laughed at the whole thing. It was fun to write. We have a really fast melodic riff to start the thing off, go into a beefed-up chorus, and then top it all off with a slam-style breakdown to shake things up. It’s kind of all over the place in the best way possible, because as different as these parts are, they work together.”
Pre-orders are available now on physical and digital formats here.
Endless track listing:
- “Endless//Godless”
- “Seed”
- “Forlorn”
- “Vast Eternal”
- “Wither”
- “Evermore”
- “Dread” feat. Josh Davies (Ingested)
- “Bleak” feat. Johnny Ciardullo (Carcosa)
- “A World Away” feat. Alan Grnja (Distant)
- “Endless//Loveless”
