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No Clean Singing is currently streaming The Sinking Isle, the compelling new full-length from Sacramento funeral doom duo OROMET, in its entirety. The premiere comes in advance of the record’s official release on November 7th via Hypaethral Records and Transylvanian Recordings.
OROMET was forged in 2022 by guitarist/vocalist Dan Aguilar and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Hills with the aim of creating powerful music where melody is the focal point, rather than an afterthought. OROMET sculpts towering, monumental funeral doom epics. Transcendent guitar harmonies soar over immense, swirling soundscapes while agonizing vocals howl from cavernous depths. Their self-titled debut captured that vision: an epic exploration of grandeur intertwining a profound sense of beauty with crushing heaviness.
For The Sinking Isle, Hills and Aguilar turn their focus to a darker tone, while still crafting an album that feels like a direct continuation from their debut. Adrift on cataclysmic seas, melody remains their compass – a hopeful light guiding the listener through themes of loss, nostalgia, and pessimism.
Writes No Clean Singing on part, “The album consists of three monumental songs, monumental not just in their duration but in the sense, they leave of daunting edifices being constructed that will stand the test of time.
The longest of all is the near-21-minute song ‘Hollow Dominion,’ and that’s the one OROMET chose as the album’s opening track. It’s a bit like throwing a gauntlet down before listeners and daring them to pick it up: If you’re not ready to settle in, ready to be engulfed and absorbed by what OROMET are doing, then you’d best go on your merry (or miserable) way. Songs of such length, or even half of that length, are sometimes described in cliched terms as ‘journeys,’ at least when the music makes turns as it goes, revealing different experiences and moods. ‘Hollow Dominion’ definitely does that, and in doing so it displays some of the key hallmarks of OROMET’s creativity.
“It first reveals gentle, lonely, contemplative melodies, melodies that are ethereal and mysterious, melancholy but also wondering. It also reveals music of groaning and grating heaviness, with gritty reverberating tones that seem to moan in agony and wail in pain, matched with slow, stupendous drums and both harrowing howls and gargantuan roars that seem to rise up from caverns deep…”
Read more and stream OROMET’s The Sinking Isle exclusively at No Clean Singing HERE.
The Sinking Isle was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Patrick Hills at Earthtone Recording Company and features cover art by Ted Nasmith, whose work resonates with the band’s philosophy and lyrical themes.
The record will be released on CD (Ltd. 300) and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
Volcanic Blaze (Ltd. 250)
Emerald Wave (Ltd. 250)
The vinyl edition, CD, and an exclusive T-Shirt will be released via the Hypaethral Records webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. Vinyl, CD, and an exclusive cassette (Ltd. 200) will be released via Transylvanian Recordings HERE.
The Sinking Isle Track Listing:
1. Hollow Dominion
2. Marathon
3. Forsaken Tarn
OROMET Live w/ Feral Season:
11/06/2025 McCoys Tavern – Olympia, WA
11/07/2025 Baba Yaga – Seattle, WA
11/08/2025 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
11/09/2025 Savage Henry Comedy – Eureka, CA
OROMET:
Dan Aguilar – guitar, vocals
Patrick Hills – drums, bass, synth, backing vocals
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