Voices
Press quotes
“It feels like the funeral doom counterpart to Sleep's Dopesmoker.”
“Rarely you'll find an album where artwork, lyrics and every single note form an inseparable bond. Shackleton is this album.”
Named after the legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, this 42-minute single-track EP channels the desolation and endurance of polar expeditions into a massive wall of doom. Recorded by Dominique Fricker and mastered by Martin Kesa, Shackleton marked the band’s first collaboration with external engineers.
Lyrics
Ice
Death
Cold
Must
Walk
Crawl
Crawl
Don’t
Sleep
One
More
Step
A change in the water’s color
Harbinger of all the things to follow
Like frozen statuettes
Hold on stand still
Relentless storms revealing icy bones
Under black flesh
Dead feet carry dead bodies
And burning minds
We are doomed to wander at the end
Of the world
Cold
Empty
Void
Must
Walk
Crawl
We are doomed to wander at the end
Of the world
Dead feet carry dead bodies
And burning minds
Titanic clouds, the sky’s so low
The horizon so far away
Don’t lose your hope
With every step you take
Titanic clouds, the sky’s so low
The horizon so far away
We are doomed to wander at the end
Of the world.
Credits
released December 15, 2017
Von Doom - Guitars
Ingo Gerhartz - Bass
Robert Krause - Synthesizers
Mathias Rodig - Drums
Recorded in 2007
Written by The Wright Valley Trio
Recorded by Dominique Fricker
Mixed and Mastered by Martin Kesa
Artwork by Jonas Holzer