{"id":608752,"date":"2025-12-03T03:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:43:17","slug":"lorna-shore-ready-a-new-chapter-ahead-of-good-things-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608752\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Shore Ready a New Chapter Ahead of Good Things Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Ramos may be one of the most in-demand artists in heavy music right now.\u00a0<\/strong>The frontman of US deathcore group Lorna Shore, whose brutality in vocals is only matched by a natural charisma on and off stage, has been a dominating presence in the scene since joining the band in 2021. <\/p>\n

The versatility of Ramos\u2019 range has garnered him acclaim throughout the deathcore and metalcore communities, mirroring the growth of Lorna Shore since his addition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s prolific surge, notably since the release of 2021\u2019s And I Return to Nothingness EP, has brought viral success online (single \u201cTo the Hellfire\u201d has accrued over 72 million streams to date), as well as renewed global recognition for the band\u2019s vicious approach to music that isn\u2019t made to alienate but to emotionally penetrate.<\/p>\n

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Ramos has taken this objective into each Lorna Shore project he has been part of: from And I Return\u2026, through to 2022\u2019s Pain Remains and now, the band\u2019s fourth studio album, I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An album like Pain Remains arrived at a time in Lorna Shore\u2019s journey where they were ready to push themselves to the next level; receiving widespread acclaim and positioning the band, alongside groups like Spiritbox, I Prevail, and Sleep Token as leaders of a fresh vanguard in modern metal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me, Lorna Shore have wisely taken the momentum of their third album back into the studio, developing a striking new collection of music that honours the formative chapters of their career to date, while embracing a forceful, reinvigorated chemistry that marks the band\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

When we speak with Ramos, it is release day for the band\u2019s newest cut, \u201cPrison of Flesh\u201d. A touchstone of I Feel the Everblack\u2026 \u201cPrison of Flesh\u201d is an extremely intense and dark offering, a powerful blend of sonics and breakdown that carry Ramos\u2019 raw lyricism \u2013 navigating his family\u2019s experience with dementia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really tried to make this more emotional,\u201d Ramos explains. \u201cIf there\u2019s any emotion that somebody is feeling, then hopefully they can dive into it more when listening to this music. I\u2019m excited to see what people think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I Feel the Everblack\u2026 is the first Lorna Shore album to drop in three years \u2013 from it, fans were teased with singles \u201cOblivion\u201d and \u201cUnbreakable\u201d, ultimately being shown how committed the band has been to bolster their reputation as one of the most impressive bands in the space.<\/p>\n

The pressure to keep delivering \u2013 not just for the public, but for themselves \u2013 reached new intensity for Lorna Shore during this cycle. Getting out of one\u2019s way and trusting the intention behind each song, each creative idea, was a hurdle Ramos says the band had to overcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you put out an album like Pain Remains and it does really well, we see how the band is progressing and everyone gets in their head a little bit,\u201d he admits.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormal people who are just listening and watching us, they\u2019re going, \u2018The next album has to top this one, somehow.\u2019 That pressure feeds into our internal pressure as we\u2019re trying to write. So we\u2019re second-guessing everything that we\u2019re doing. That was happening the entire six, seven months that we were in the studio. Even up until the very last day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As a result of their own high standards and desire to kick down this new era of Lorna Shore as hard as possible, I Feel the Everblack\u2026 arrives as a cohesive and thrilling set of music: brutal, symphonic and relentless in its delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ramos attributes some of this fresh snarl and confidence in taking new ideas and directions to the limit, to recent time spent touring with giants of the genre including Gojira and Byron Bay\u2019s own, Parkway Drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching these other bands play massive arenas, seeing how the crowds react to them versus how they sometimes react to us; we play \u2018To the Hellfire\u2019, everyone has their phones out and they\u2019re watching it on their phone. You watch Parkway Drive, and everyone is so into the music, it\u2019s a beautiful moment. The tour we did with them was the sickest one we have been a part of \u2014 ever. I\u2019ve never seen a band perform like that. I haven\u2019t been to a lot of massive performances but for what that was, I was shocked,\u201d Ramos says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched [Gojira] almost every other day; they are fucking insane,\u201d he remembers. \u201cKeep in mind, I\u2019d never listened to them prior to this tour. I know, I\u2019m terrible, whatever. I\u2019m going in with nothing in mind, I have no idea what they sound like, except for awesome. That\u2019s all I heard from every single person who\u2019d seen them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single time I watched them, they were incredible. They play so many different styles: they have a lot of progressive, they\u2019ve got a lot of ambient stuff. They have a lot of pretty sounding shit, which I like a lot. I\u2019m like, \u2018This is really cool, but how do you define a band like that?\u2019 This album is a big testament to the experience we had on that tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Releasing an album such as I Feel the Everblack\u2026 at this point in the Lorna Shore story, is a reminder of the resilience the band has developed over the years. Cycling through various lineup changes, as well as different levels of adversity attached to the departure of previous members, it would not have been a massive surprise if the fire within this band extinguished.<\/p>\n

Smiling, Ramos is happy with how fulfilled Lorna Shore has become in its more recent history; this optimism is simply fuelling their ambition to be the best version of themselves \u2013 a dynamic and genre-defying heavy band, they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love making heavy music. That\u2019s what it is. Lorna Shore will always be a heavy band, but we\u2019ve all grown,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe want to make more music that is just a bigger version of the band; one that you can\u2019t really define. You wouldn\u2019t be able to say, \u2018This band is a deathcore band.\u2019 At the end of the day, it\u2019s just Lorna Shore. Just like listening to Gojira. That is just what they sound like. Their \u2018sound\u2019 is whatever Gojira is. That\u2019s their genre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian fans were able to get a taste of this pure and fired up version of the band, with Lorna Shore making an impressive debut earlier this year. For the band, it was a reminder of how far their reach has been able to extend, as well as being a brilliant opportunity to connect with fans and crew so far from home.<\/p>\n

This summer, Lorna Shore will return to Australia as part of the Good Things Festival<\/a>. Joining a line up boasting Tool, Weezer, Refused, and Garbage, Lorna Shore\u2019s addition to the bill adds to the festival\u2019s growing legacy of providing unique live experiences for a diverse audience.<\/p>\n

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Safe to say, Ramos is stoked to be coming back twice in one year.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to Australia or the eastern part of the world in general was a pipedream for us,\u201d he says. \u201cThe fact that we did a little tour of Australia and Japan earlier in the year, it was so short, but so unbelievable for us. The fact that we\u2019re coming back for something as big as this festival says a lot about the growth of the band. We never thought that we would be in a place like this, we\u2019re very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos shares a broad grin when conversation inevitably turns to looking forward to what comes next for Lorna Shore, once I Feel the Everblack\u2026 brings them back to stages in a massive way. Ramos himself is a natural frontman and exemplary vocalist, yet he is also aware of the bond and talent everyone has applied to bring the band this far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is confident though, that if this album is a gateway for new Lorna Shore fans; or if this one is simply a new step forward for the longtime listener, there\u2019s going to be something for everyone to get on board with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think of Lorna Shore as HBO\u2026 but old-school HBO, when HBO was fresh!\u201d he laughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes there\u2019d be shows that wouldn\u2019t be for you, but that\u2019s no problem. For the people who those shows were for, it would be the best show ever. We want to do that, as much as we can. We really tried to give every song its own identity, and make them the best they could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the last few tours we\u2019ve done, how much we\u2019ve been on the road. The few tours we did with Parkway Drive was enough for me to be like, \u201cWe\u2019ve fucking made it.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorna Shore\u2019s I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me<\/a> is out now.\u00a0<\/p>\n