{"id":153760,"date":"2025-09-19T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153760\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:39:11","slug":"how-lorna-shore-became-deathcores-breakout-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153760\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lorna Shore became deathcore’s breakout stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bone-splintering sonic exorcism of Prison Of Flesh, one of the blistering new singles from Lorna Shore\u2019s fifth album, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me<\/a>, is a scorching amalgam of brutal death metal<\/a>, orchestral black metal<\/a>, tribal industrial and jolting, shuddering deathcore<\/a> \u2013 a nightmarish seven-minute-long rollercoaster ride on rotting rails in a carnival of unflinching punishment.<\/p>\n

Even though the song has nothing to do with serial killings or other graphic atrocities, Lorna Shore have chosen to promote Prison Of Flesh with a horror-themed video about a woman whose mind unravels like yarn, making her more delusional and violent by the blastbeat, inevitably threatening her and her son\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll I remember saying when I saw the treatment was, \u2018OK, just as long as it\u2019s gory\u2019,\u201d says Adam De Micco, the band\u2019s lead guitarist and main songwriter, an hour before heading to the shoot at a creepy warehouse in suburban New Jersey. \u201cWe haven\u2019t done a video like that yet, and it seemed like a good song to use for that kind of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the old saying goes, be careful what you ask for. After Lorna Shore arrive at the shoot, a woman in make-up sits with the band \u2013 Adam, vocalist Will Ramos, rhythm guitarist and programmer Andrew O\u2019Connor, bassist Michael \u2018Moke\u2019 Yager and drummer Austin Archey \u2013 and applies multiple coats of blood to their faces and bodies.<\/p>\n

The first application contains alcohol and doesn\u2019t easily wash off. Then, there\u2019s a thick, slimy concoction that shines but needs to be reapplied after every take. Why? Because above the view of the cameras is an apparatus made of showerheads that spray fountains of blood on everyone all day long.<\/p>\n

The next day, Lorna Shore are clean and dry, dressed in t-shirts. Everyone\u2019s gathered in the living room of Will\u2019s house. The only remnants from yesterday\u2019s bloodbath are PDFs containing gnarly on-set images that look like crime scene photos, and Will\u2019s hanging pink shirt, which used to be white before it was irreparably stained.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, there were points from that video that are hard to even describe,\u201d the singer says, sitting on an armchair and cracking open a can of IPA. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was from my hair being wet or the goop dripping into my eyes. I tried to blink that shit away so I could see, and every time I opened my eyes again, it just felt stickier. It was fucking intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lorna Shore – Prison Of Flesh (Official Video) – YouTube
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‘Fucking intense\u2019 is deathcore\u2019s factory setting. A post-death metal<\/a>\/metalcore hybrid that was spawned in the late 1990s\/early 00s by bands like Antagony, The Red Chord and Despised Icon, deathcore typically features heavily distorted, downtuned seven-string guitars, a mix of high-speed beats and slow, chugging breakdowns, and deranged vocal noises, including high-pitched noises that would be dubbed \u2018pig squeals\u2019.<\/p>\n

The genre exploded in the late 00s with early Job For A Cowboy, Suicide Silence, Carnifex, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, Bring Me The Horizon and Thy Art Is Murder, with a third wave following in the 2010s. But since the start of this decade, deathcore has undergone an unexpected commercial surge, with Lorna Shore and Slaughter To Prevail leading the scene ever closer to a proper mainstream breakthrough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no rivalry between us whatsoever,\u201d says Andrew, who is largely responsible for the cinematic orchestrations and industrial sounds that enhance Lorna Shore\u2019s music, of any potential competition between his own band and Slaughter To Prevail. \u201cTo be honest, we don\u2019t pay any attention to what they\u2019re doing. We\u2019re only interested in what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a casual conversation that veers from Job For A Cowboy to Psycho-Frame, it\u2019s clear that Lorna Shore know their deathcore history. At the same time, they\u2019ve always liked other kinds of music, including sweeping film scores, 80s new wave, classic rock and obscure death metal.<\/p>\n

\u201cNecrophagist is my favourite band, and extreme death metal is really my thing,\u201d says Adam, a soft-spoken band-leader with a sedate lifestyle that matches that of most of his bandmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing great death metal riffs is always in the back of my mind. But I\u2019ve always thought of Lorna Shore as a metal band. I never saw us as deathcore. That umbrella seems too small to me. Metal should be an all-encompassing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorna Shore were formed in New Jersey in 2009, though they experienced a dizzying churn of personnel in their early years. Adam, who joined in 2010, is the longest-serving member, followed by Austin, who came aboard in 2012. Perhaps that instability contributed to the fact that Lorna Shore\u2019s initial rise was unremarkable rather than explosive.<\/p>\n

Between 2010 and 2020, they released a string of EPs and a trio of albums \u2013 2015\u2019s Psalms, 2017\u2019s Flesh Coffin and 2020\u2019s Immortal \u2013 that didn\u2019t really break them out of the deathcore scene. That changed with 2022\u2019s Pain Remains<\/a>. The first full-length album to feature Will Ramos, it was an electrifying record and one that coincided with deathcore\u2019s broader resurgence.<\/p>\n

Will himself became a figurehead for this new wave of deathcore, thanks partly to an insane vocal range that spans guttural growls and ear-piercing squeals (he was famously the subject of a 2022 video in which a camera was inserted down his throat to record what was happening with his larynx as he sung).<\/p>\n

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me is like the work of a band who know they\u2019re on the verge of something big. But is it even a deathcore record? It careens with dizzying, paradoxical arrangements and epic, rhythmic mazes, propelled by pummelling beats and concussion-inducing riffs. But there are also gliding strings, soaring choirs and euphoric melodies amid the Earth-shaking breakdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I feel like we\u2019ve gotten bullied into playing breakdowns because if we didn\u2019t do them, no one would care about our band,\u201d says Will. \u201cIt\u2019s all because of peer pressure!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been like that for a long time,\u201d adds Austin. \u201cThere were all these Jersey lunkheads there when we released [2013 EP] Maleficium and Godmaker was our big song. It was influenced by black metal<\/a> ambience, but there are two slow, crazy breakdowns. All these construction workers at the shows didn\u2019t care about black metal. But they happily beat their friends up during the breakdowns \u2013 two times during a five-minute song. Awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The low-budget video for Godmaker accrued 1.4 million views on YouTube, and the song itself has been streamed 1.8 million times on Spotify<\/a>. That\u2019s impressive for any extreme metal song, yet it pales compared to the nearly 72 million Spotify streams for To The Hellfire from the band\u2019s 2021 EP And I Return To Nothingness (Will\u2019s debut with Lorna Shore), and most of the songs from Pain Remains range from 10 to 30 million streams.<\/p>\n

This commercial breakthrough is hugely impressive, not least given the fact that for all their willingness to push beyond deathcore\u2019s limits with I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me, Lorna Shore are still a fundamentally extreme band. How have they managed to attract such a huge fanbase with such uncompromising music?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fun thing is not knowing how we got so big,\u201d Will says, eyes widening like a kid who\u2019s found a hidden stash of homemade cookies. \u201cNot having control over what we\u2019re doing and just letting it work its way out is more exciting than sitting there and trying to figure out how we captured lightning in a bottle. That\u2019s boring. And I think the fact that it happened organically is like a bonus. Everything\u2019s very genuine. Maybe that has something to do with why people like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorna Shore – Godmaker (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) – YouTube
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There\u2019s perhaps a far simpler reason metal fans have been so captivated by Lorna Shore. Will Ramos is the most charismatic, vocally inventive frontman since late Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker<\/a>. Wiry, affable and not at all bad looking, he\u2019s dressed today in torn jeans, a black t-shirt and interlinked silver chains. His dyed pink-blond hair hangs down the right side of his head. The other side is shaved. Along with black plugs and sleeve tatts, the vocalist looks fashionable, yet edgy.<\/p>\n

Onstage, he\u2019s a feral beast, gesturing spasmodically, concocting the crazed sounds of the terminally possessed. Will laughs at the idea that he\u2019s at all a formidable presence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the least evil person in the world,\u201d he says. \u201cBeing this frickin\u2019 evil monster thing onstage is so far from who I am as a person. But it\u2019s so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will was born and raised in suburban New Jersey and has lived here all his life. As a teenager, a friend played Will deathcore. At first, he didn\u2019t like it, but he gradually warmed to the aggressive sound, and was soon imitating screamers like Mitch Lucker, Dickie Allen from Infant Annihilator and Eddie Hermida from All Shall Perish. One night, Will dropped acid and someone played him Lorna Shore\u2019s Godmaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was raining and I\u2019m tripping my balls off and I\u2019m going, \u2018Whoaaaa, this is the craziest shit I\u2019ve ever heard.\u2019 I decided I\u2019d listen to it later when I wasn\u2019t on acid, and to my relief I still loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Lorna Shore\u2019s vocalist was Tom Barber, who left in 2018. Then came CJ McCreery, who appeared on one album, 2020\u2019s Immortal, but was fired after he was accused of sexual misconduct (no charges were brought, and the accusations were later retracted by the people who made them). After seeing YouTube recordings of Will performing Lorna Shore covers, the band brought him on tour for a trial run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in another band, Monument Of A Memory, and they said, \u2018Hey, what are you going to do if Lorna Shore ask you to join?\u2019,\u201d says the singer. \u201cThey expected me to say, \u2018Oh, no, no, no. I\u2019m not going anywhere.\u2019 But I was just like, \u2018Hell yeah! If that happens, I\u2019m leaving. Sorry. I love you guys, but Lorna Shore is the band I always wanted to be a part of!\u201d<\/p>\n

While Lorna Shore wrote all of Pain Remains in just over a month, they had a full year to complete I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me. They thought the extra time would make life easier, but for Adam, having more time made him second-guess himself and question the band\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say everything came from depression and ADHD,\u201d he says, only half joking. \u201cI was writing riff after riff, and most of it sucked. And if I thought something was good, I\u2019d question whether anyone else would like it. It felt like there was an expectation, a standard I had to meet. And all this time I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Dude, you have all this great stuff going on in your life. If you write a bad record, it\u2019s all going to go away.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

If the whirlwind of scorching death metal riffs, atmospheric keyboards, IED breakdown bursts and frenzied guitar shredding reflect Adam\u2019s abject frustration, Will\u2019s otherworldly yowls are driven by even more palpable emotions: heartbreak and helplessness. Rather than write about splattery horror stories or apocalyptic scenarios, Will pulled pain from within. Prison Of Flesh has nothing to do with blood raining from the sky. It\u2019s about a personal kind of hell he confronted growing up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about dementia, which runs in my family,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve walked past my grandma so many times and she doesn\u2019t recognise my face. She texted me the other day and wrote, \u2018Be careful when you\u2019re driving over here. There\u2019s a fire in [New Jersey city] Englewood.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I moved a year and a half ago. I don\u2019t live anywhere near there anymore.\u2019 It\u2019s crazy, \u2019cos that could be me one day. Or anyone. Dementia is so common.\u201d<\/p>\n

The morose, heavily orchestrated album closer, Forevermore, was inspired by an even more devastating incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother-in-law had a blood clot that went to his lungs, and he stopped breathing and died on the spot,\u201d Will reveals. \u201cHe was only in his 40s, and it made me think, because I have vein problems. I didn\u2019t even realise I had a problem until I went to a vein doctor and she told me I have to wear leg sleeves every time I go on a plane. I was like, \u2018What are you talking about?\u2019 And she said, \u2018If you don\u2019t, you could die.\u2019 I went, \u2018Uh, OK. Leg sleeves it is.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

With I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me imminent, and the two singles they\u2019ve already posted receiving glowing praise, Lorna Shore are fizzing with excitement and optimism. At the moment, though, Adam is flying high for a different reason. Recently, his dad picked him up from John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens and what he said lifted his son\u2019s spirits in a way that might last forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t ask me how I was doing or anything,\u201d Adam says. \u201cHe told me that Unbreakable was one of the best songs I ever wrote and one of the best songs he\u2019s ever heard. And my dad grew up on Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin so he\u2019s not a metal guy. So, for me, if someone says, \u2018Oh, your band sucks,\u2019 I can say, \u2018Fuck you, I don\u2019t care. Because my dad told me we\u2019re awesome.\u2019”<\/p>\n

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me is out now via Century Media. Lorna Shore tour North America from September 20 and the UK from ebruary 8 2026. For the full list of upcoming dates, visit their official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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