The New Jersey quintet Lorna Shore is back after turbulent covid years and personnel changes, and it’s darker than ever. Musically, the band leans mainly towards deathcore, blackend death metal or symphonic metal. In their earlier work, they experimented a lot in other styles, looking for the genre that the band would fit into the most.
Lorna Shore has returned and upped their sonic ante with new album, Pain Remains. “This was the hardest record that we’ve ever had to write,” says guitarist Adam De Micco. “The title came out when I was writing the album,” recalls Adam. “I had a lot going on personally. A lot of loss – and that came out in the songwriting.” Nothing makes that more apparent than the three-part album-shuttering opus, “Pain Remains” that stretches over 20 minutes, bludgeoning the listener with a sense of scale and raw emotion with Will venting over a tidal of cascading riffs, animalistic growls and swelling synths. “I always wanted to write a really sad death metal song, a deathcore love song,” says vocalist Will Ramos. “When I first heard the music, it had so much emotion – have you ever fallen in love in a dream and woken up and realized that none of it was real? It’s about chasing that emotion.”