30/09/2021
Crown of Joy (A Sublime Sun Thriving Amongst Suicidal Stars) is here. Get it on Bandcamp, stream it on Spotify, Google, Apple, and more.
Seventeen tracks. Fifty-five minutes. Fifteen guest musicians. And an experience of colliding genres unlike any other.
Featuring the talents of:
Sally is a freelance R&B vocalist who contributes beautiful and haunting vocals to the debut single Ghost Me.
Alena Yashkina is the vocalist of Russian nu-metal act Splitmind and thrash act Wicked Cat. She provides scorching vocals on the antagonistic Dread.
Junayed Hossain Rayhan also known as Metal Fakir is an incredible guitarist from Bangladesh. He provides a killer solo on the aforementioned Dread.
thetrashyourmomthrewout is a freelance voice actress who provides spoken word on the aggressive S**t Scene, S**t Bands.
Sevlier is a freelance jazz vocalist from Australia and she provides incredible lead vocals to the soft jazz track White Night Gaslight.
Olga Nuit who provides vocals for Ara'kus, Kerr Ring, and Gallows Hymn provides powerful opera vocals to the main verse of Grey Rainbow and also provides crushing black metal vocals on the song's chorus.
The one and only Kieran Scott of Ashen Crown has worked with me on many projects in the past and has returned to spew his subsonic gutturals on the frenzied Obfuscation of Intent.
Freelance vocalist Ember Ophelia Woody belts out intense punk vocals on the frantic Ten Wing Angel.
Death metal legend Karl Willetts from Memoriam UK growls out the pre-chorus on heavy as s**t track Again and Again.
Musical mastermind Aaron Marko from avant garde act The Swine provides a spoken word intro in the form of a news report from 1982 on the cyberpunk tinged track None / Nothing.
Lead guitarist and technical wizard Rodrgio C Giacon from Sorrow In Vain executes an incredible guitar solo on the aforementioned None / Nothing.
Nate Lewis from Petrichor, ANTE-INFERNO, and many other bands provides grotesque vocals on the brutal track named Slitting Their Throats.
Amara Wears from Petrichor, Utilitarian, Aubzagl, and a hundred other bands shares the vocal stage with Nate Lewis on the aforementioned Slitting Their Throats.
Marc Hood of death metal act Cadaver Soirée contributes his ear destroying death growls on the track Kvlt After School Xbox Kommando.
Underground metal musician Baradiel (Jo Nathan) summons Pink Floyd during his vocals at the end of the aforementioned Kvlt After School Xbox Kommando.
I want to sincerely thank all of the musicians who made this monster of an album possible. You are all incredible and it was a blast working with you.
17 track album