WOM Features – Earth Ship Releases Video For “Bereft”
Photo by Yukyong Ryang
After 6 years of silence, sludge/doom trio Earth Ship make an unexpected return with their sixth album Soar. A phantasmagorical exploration of fever dreams and twilight states, Soars is a psychotronic collection of swaggering rhythms and dazzling textures. Plowing their way through eight longform tracks, Earth Ship uncovers a world in which every extended riff is a journey into trance Atlantis, where your mind is immersed in hazy lofi-lullabies and heavy retro sounds. Their newest single is “Bereft” and you can see its videoclip below
“Bereft was the very first song we wrote for the new album and which we had already played live a few times. It’s a pretty heavy chunk of a song, filled with fat riffs but also catchy melodies. As for the video, we were very lucky that our good friend Alex, who has produced some of our videos before, joined us on tour in 2023/2024 again and gathered a lot of great footage for this track.”
Born in 2010 from the mother lode of the German sludge metal scene, Earth Ship emerged as one of the most relentless and heavy-hitting live bands of the European mainland. Consisting of heavy power couple Jan and Sabine Oberg (who also play together in Grin and Slowshine) and a rotating cast of drummers, Earth Ship have played with many renowned acts such as Voivod, Red Fang, Crowbar and Amenra.
On “Soar” the two are joined by Slowshine-drummer André Klein (The Smokin ’44’s) whose no frills playing forms the perfect backdrop for the duo’s gut-wrenching riffage. Wandering along the steady rhythm of the drums, your mind is warmly held by deep bass tones and slowly engulfed by hazy lullabies of earth-toned guitars and vocals. Earth Ship color their world in Jan Oberg’s characteristic lofi-sound, being recorded, as is tradition, by him in his own Hidden Planet Studio. These songs are a testament to his 18 year-long experience as one of Germany’s most prolific producers in sludge metal, having released many pristine sounding records with his own bands Grin and Slowshine, but also via his label The Lasting Dose Records. Jan knows how to render a metal band’s sound with incredible attention to detail but without unnecessary polish and this album is no exception to his indelible ethos.
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