In 2017, The Angelus gave us their second full-length offering, 'There Will Be No Peace', a foreboding and despairing narrative told through carefully interwoven compositions of dark hymnal doom. Pretty. Bleak. A pre-apocalyptic telling of coming times that garnered much critical acclaim.

This summer has been dedicated, again working with producer / engineer Alex Bhore (formerly of This Will Destroy You), to record their next full-length album 'Why We Never Die' (coming 2020).

Amid these recordings the band decided to carve out some extra, inward-looking material that they could share with the world in the meantime. The resulting songs are two galloping powerhouses comprised of their original song "The Young Birds" and "The Weeping Song", a cover of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. On "The Young Birds", an ode to being renewed by the love of your children despite a bleak outlook in life, The Angelus explore the darkest boundaries of their otherwise familiar sonic map. A driving bass-line emerges from a haze of overdriven guitars as a stuttering drum beat supports voices harmonizing in a doomy ode to life and childhood, despairing yet triumphant. This song pairs nicely with the cover of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' "The Weeping Song", which the band renders as mournfully as ever, all the while upping its electric punch with their own post-rock embellishments, making for a song that could easily stand as an Angelus original.

The Young Birds / The Weeping Song

The Young Birds

Sisyphean

Hustle The Sluggard

Why We Never Die

Another Kind

When The Hour Is Right

Of Ashen Air

Ode To None

Hex Born

Honor To Feasts

THE ANGELUS

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