UK experimental outfit Camel of Doom return next month with Terrestrial, their first new full-length since 2012. Led by former Esoteric guitarist Kris Clayton, the band follow-up their Psychodramas LP (review here) by pushing further into slow-motion cosmic churn, heavy and expansive in kind. As the two new songs streaming below, “Cycles (The Anguish of Anger)” and “Euphoric Slumber” make plain, if it’s terrestrial at all, it’s extra-terrestrial. Call it progressive doom, call it space metal, call it whatever you want, but it’s definitely Camel of Doom‘s own.

Album is out Feb. 8 on Solitude Productions. Judge them not by their moniker, open your mind, and dig in below:

Camel of Doom ‘Terrestrial’ – Out 8th February

“The brand new full-length album by the British experimentalists. Starting with psychedelic stoner doom metal, Camel of Doom have come to make sophisticated music mixing doom death metal and sludge doom metal, with a tendency towards psychedelic effects and energetic riffs. Combining groovy moments with lengthy atmospheric riffs, adding industrial motifs to their masterpiece, the musicians paint a wide scale picture of cosmic chaos and, at the same time, harmony expressed with a share of melody. Also noteworthy is the breakthrough the band have made in forming a dense sound, fully disclosed in ‘Terrestrial’.”

After several months of pre-production, we entered Priory Recording Studios in January 2015 to record and begin mixing the record with guitarist/vocalist Kris Clayton’s former Esoteric band-mate, doom supremo Greg Chandler. These tracks represent the results of this session.

The band originally formed in 2002, and performed a handful of shows around the UK in 2004/2005. After a short hiatus, the band continued as a one man project of founder Kris Clayton, then playing with UK doom band Esoteric. Following the release of the Psychodramas LP in 2012, the line-up was expanded with the addition of bassist Simon Whittle. For the recording of Terrestrial we were assisted on drums by the extremely capable Thomas Vallely (Lychgate, Omega Centauri). The band has recently become a three piece with the addition of Ben Nield as a permanent drummer. This has allowed the band to play live once more, with shows planned throughout 2016 and beyond.

Kris Clayton – Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals
Simon Whittle – Bass
Thomas Vallely – Drums (Studio Session)

Engineered by Greg Chandler and Kris Clayton
Mixed and Mastered by Greg Chandler
Produced by Kris Clayton
Art by Daniele Lupidi

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Camel of Doom, Terrestrial (2016)

Formerly the one-man project of former Esoteric guitarist Kris Clayton and now expanded to a duo, Camel of Doom have issued a vinyl version of their 2012 full-length, Psychodramas: Breaking the Knots of Twisted Synapse (review here), through Voice of Azram Records. Just 300 copies have been pressed of the album, which runs a line between death-doom and heavy psychedelia via encompassing tones and an overarching focus on atmospherics. Together with bassist Simon Whittle, Clayton has been working on a follow-up to Psychodramas that will be recorded early in the New Year and hopefully released sometime before the end of 2015. No easy task in following a record so widely varied, but something tells me Camel of Doom‘s next one will be worth looking forward to.

And in the meantime, vinyl. Info follows:

The new album from ex-Esoteric guitarist Kris Clayton. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Priory Recording Studios by Esoteric mainman and long time collaborator Greg Chandler, and produced by Kris Clayton to finally realize the dream imagined when the band was formed 10 long years ago.

Melding together influences from Doom, Death Metal, Stoner Rock and 70’s Psychedelic and Progressive rock genres, the record aims to be as heavy as it is trippy, as melodic as it is dissonant and as beautiful as it is twisted. This record takes the foundations built by earlier albums and adds to them, retaining the bands trademark ambient saxophone infused doom and creating new sounds with forays into blissed out vocoded post-rock and early 90’s death metal, with brief stops into dark ambient and funeral doom along the way.

Lyrically it is a concept record telling of how the artist used arcane techniques to rebuild a mind shattered by constant self abuse, drawing on the darkest aspects of the psyche to force his mind in submission to his own will. Thematically, the band has matured immensely – hardly surprising that Kris Clayton formed the band aged just 13. The sound has grown up with him.

1×12″ Purple Vinyl LP, released on Voice of Azram records. Includes poster.

There are 300 copies available worldwide, we have a limited number of 27 available for sale.

All proceeds from bandcamp sales go to the band. All sales anywhere else we see nothing!

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Camel of Doom, Psychodramas: Breaking the Knots of Twisted Synapse (2012/2014)