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Doom/Sludge/Post-Metal collective Harvest Of Ash will be releasing their brilliant new album Castaway on Friday 07th March 2025. This is record that resonated quite deeply with me on a personal level which I mentioned in my review.
The writing and recording of Salt Lake City’s Harvest of Ash second full length album was a dark time for the band. Lineup changes and injuries stopped the band for months at a time. Yet, they took all of this calamity and channelled it into a new album about confronting and overcoming chaos. What they produced is a new album, titled Castaway.
In Castaway, Harvest of Ash has excavated the crevasses of calamity and emerged with an uncompromisingly filthy and punishing, yet skillfully crafted, work.
Lyrically, it charts a journey from self-criticism and feelings of rejection to being happy with who you are and what you have become as a person. A main theme of the work is the idea of amor fati, or love of fate. This is the notion of living life in an authentic way, embracing every decision and path taken – good and bad – as uniquely your own, that you would do everything the same way again. This makes Castaway a deeply personal statement about when you feel the bottom has dropped out of your life, and reclaiming value in yourself during these times.
Salt Lake City’s geography is a study of contrasts. Towering mountains, expressing power and grandeur, meet with desert emptiness - a completely flat limitlessness where barely a shrub is able to grow. Enormous and overwhelming, three-piece doom band Harvest of Ash conjures both the magnificence of mountain ranges and the desolation of barren deserts.
We're excited to premiere the new song SHINE from the upcoming new album CASTAWAY thanks to great folks over at Desert Bloom PR.
Harvest Of Ash say this about SHINE
“Shine" is a very positive song. It is about recognizing your gifts and abilities at times when you feel low about yourself. When you step back and look at what you’ve completed and accomplished and be proud of yourself. Not necessarily in an arrogant way, but in order to counter those negative feelings that make you feel insignificant and incompetent.“ - Harvest of Ash
Lineup
Pepper Glass: guitar/vocals
Mike DiTullio: drums/percussion
Ben Dodds: bass
Album Details
Recorded and mixed by Wes Johnson at Archive Recordings,
Salt Lake City, Utah, February & May 2024
Mastered by Stephan Hawkes in North Hollywood, CA
Cover artwork: @draught___
Thanks to Desert Bloom PR for all of the details.
