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Mount Soma to Release Nirodha EP May 1; Stream “Dark Sun Destroyer”

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Some rather lofty ideas brought to bear in the second EP, Nirodha, from Dublin four-piece Mount Soma, and some lofty riffing to correspond. The Irish sludge purveyors will issue the three-songer on May 1 and they’re streaming the opening track from it now if you’ve got the time and headspace to support listening.

A worthy endeavor, that is, and Mount Soma capture a presence at once human and based on sonic largesse, the atmosphere natural even as it departs the ground to go crush, what, everything? I’m not sure. Parts unknown. Either way, they get where they’re going and there’s plenty of crushing to be had. If the goal if the EP — along with the concept stated below — is to give their audience something to dig into before they inevitably take on the task of a longer work, then yes, that’s a target well achieved.

If you like a bit of sludge in your doom and a bit of doom in your heavy and a bit of heavy on your skull, I humbly submit the following:

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Mount Soma are a 4 piece heavy band based in Dublin, Ireland. Having formed in 2014 they released their debut EP ‘Origins’ in 2016.

Their second EP ‘Nirodha’ was recorded live at The Meadow studio in November 2018. Recorded and mixed by The Deaf Brothers, mastered by James Plotkin and artwork/photography by Samantha Muljat.

Track Listing:
1: Dark Sun Destroyer
2. Emerge The Wolf
3. Resurfacing

EP Concept:

Sorrow and beauty exist side by side in the realisation that we, as humans, emerge from star dust and light in vast nebula to take form here on Earth with conscious minds and open hearts and an often profound sense of loneliness stemming from our existence within a vast universe. We come raging from the stars, crashing to Earth, broken and beaten and destroyed, yet willing to rise again. We love and are loved and exhale unimaginable beauty and light into our own and each other’s existence. And yet we suffer, we lose our way, we bend under addiction, we anxiously strain at the light beneath immense skies and while much is outside our comprehension, we wonder, we evolve, we grow.

Fuck suffering – that is the theme of Nirodha. In ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran it states ‘Much of your pain is self-chosen’ – this realisation, allied with the conscious intent to choose to be better, to choose to transcend attachment, craving and aversion, to choose to live and emerge from the cycles of suffering and dislocation, is the primal yelp at the heart of our music.

We struggle to exist as a band because life is complicated, so if this is our last transmission then let it be thus: At the heart of everything there is light, a light which connects us all, and there is in reality no point at which one of us ends and another begins. We are one, created in the furnace of exploding stars and imbued with the incredible gift of conscious awareness. This awareness comes with a price and a challenge: the price is that we are beings who suffer amidst this beauty, and the challenge is to use our ultimate human freedom, the freedom of choice, to choose how we react to that suffering and to choose how to live our lives while we are so briefly here. Love one another and do no harm. Though we rage, we choose to transcend our suffering and emerge anew.

Members:
Brian Killoran (Vocals/Guitar)
Keith Walsh (Lead Guitar)
Conrad Coyle (Bass/Backing Vocals)
Aaron Carroll (Drums)

https://mountsoma.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MountSomaBand/

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