Finnish Symphonic Black Metal formation …AND OCEANS, present an official music video for its new single “The Collector And His Construct’, taken from the band’s forthcoming album “As In Gardens, So In Tombs”, due for release on January 27th, 2023 via Season Of Mist.
It’s rare for a band to commandingly return with their best effort to date, and yet that’s what …AND OCEANS achieved in 2020 with “Cosmic World Mother”, their first full-length in 18 years. This comeback album was the sound of creative floodgates bursting through into a new body of water – an ocean if you will. Blistering symphonic Black Metal, heady themes that dealt with the connection between philosophy and psychics, and the Finns’ trademark adventurous songwriting. Everything that “Cosmic World Mother” did well, new opus “As In Gardens, So In Tombs” manages to eclipse and recontextualize.
It’s the sound of a band seizing every ounce of momentum and upping the ante in every way. While …AND OCEANS has never written the same album twice, in many ways “As In Gardens, So In Tombs” sounds like an opportunity for the band to pick up and improve upon what they started. Symphonic Βlack Μetal is never this fun, free and fantastic.
“As In Gardens, So In Tombs” track listing:
- As in Gardens, So in Tombs
- The Collector and His Construct
- Within Fire and Crystal
- Carried on Lead Wings
- Likt Törnen Genom Kött
- Cloud Heads
- Wine into Water
- Inverse Magnification Matrix
- The Earth Canvas
- Ambivalent God
You can watch the offiical music video for “The Collector And His Construct” below:
