A blanket of snow and ice has covered most of Massachusetts this morning (February 28), so our moods have lined up quite nicely with Oceanlord and the Australian psych-doom trio’s slow and steady crusher “2340.” The first tracked rinsed and risen from the band’s forthcoming album Kingdom Cold, out May 26 via Magnetic Eye Records, the crushing “2340” knows a thing or two about a confrontation with unforgiving ice.
“The song ‘2340’ is our dirge of treachery named for the hour the Titanic hit the iceberg, written to capture the sense of unreal calm that comes before despair and darkness consumes all,” states Oceanlord guitarist and vocalist Peter Willmott. “We follow a captain in the throes of occult ecstasy who sinks his ship and abandons its passengers to the depths.”
That’s pretty much our feeling as we head out to shovel the frozen New England pavement. Crank “2340” below, courtesy of its eye-catching AI-animated video.