Exclusive Song Premiere Of Cinematic Doom/Post-Metallers BEWARE OF GODS New Song "OCEAN OF TEETH (HAUNTED BY THE GLIMPSE OF A WHITE LIGHT)"

Beware Of Gods is a cinematic sci-fi doom project created by The Archetype, merging crushing low-end heaviness with dystopian mythology, industrial textures, and philosophical storytelling. Drawing influence from Neurosis, Godflesh, ISIS, Ministry, and Swans, the project exists at the intersection of doom metal and speculative fiction — where albums unfold like films and songs function as chapters in a larger mythos.

Rather than focusing on genre alone, Beware Of Gods builds immersive worlds around its music, giving listeners something they can inhabit as much as hear.

This is the final chapter in the Upon Whom The Last Light Descends trilogy, Behead The Oracle completes a sprawling narrative about false prophets, algorithmic gods, and the collapse of meaning in a hyper-controlled future.

Musically, the album expands the project’s sound with heavier industrial elements, ritualistic rhythms, and vast cinematic atmospheres layered over massive doom riffs. The result is an emotionally devastating, visually driven record designed for both underground heavy audiences and fans of art-driven concept albums.

To get you into the mood for this complex, heavy and brooding album, we're beyond excited to premiere the awesome new song "Ocean of Teeth (Haunted By The Glimpse Of A White Light)" from the upcoming new album:

Track Listing:

1. Conflict Code_Cursed Blessed

2. Tectonic Boogie With the Grief Eater

3. The Ghost of A One Armed Comedian

4. Ocean of Teeth (Haunted By The Glimpse Of A White Light)**

5. Secondary Drowning*

6. Dead Radio Daylight

7. Disenchanted Enchanter

8. Behead The Oracle**

9. Correction Code_Pre-Emptive Strikes Against Prophecy

10. Dethroning the Delusion

11. Starve My Eyes That I May See

Available for Download & CD format at: bewareofgods.bandcamp.com from July 10th 2026.

Social Media: 

Facebook: facebook.com/bewareofgodsband

Instagram: @beware_of_gods

TikTok: @bewareofgods

YouTube: @bewareofgodsofficial 

Album Credits

The Archetype: Voices, Words, Melodies, Guitars, Bass & Synth

Feederwire: Sound Design, Sequencing & Synth

Kellii Scott: Drums

Eric Plonka: *Additional Guitars

**Additional Guitars & Backing Vocals

Produced by: The Archetype

Co Produced, Engineered, & Mixed by: Pete Grossmann 

Mastered by: Brad Boatright @AUDIOSIEGE 

Executive Producer: Christopher Dyer

Original Artwork: Unexpected Specter

Art Direction: The Archetype

Recorded at: Bricktop Recording (Chicago, IL.) 

Thanks to Good Boy PR for all of the details.

BEWARE OF GODS - Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island (Album Review)

Release Date: May 02nd 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island - Tracklisting

1.Concussion Dream 02:49

2.The End Of The Wide Awake Nightmare 04:04

3.Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale 15:22

4.The Doomsday Zealot Of Amnesia Island 04:08

5.Lysergic Liturgies Of A Schizo Messiah 02:29

6.D. I. E. Sect 08:53

7.The Science Of Slow Moving Monsters 06:52

8.Temple Of Thieves 05:16 

Members:

Jason O'Donnell - Vocals, Guitar, Bass & Synth

Feederwire - Sound Design & Additional Guitars on Submerged...

Eric Plonka - Additional Guitars on Temple Of Thieves and D. I. E. Sect

Kellii Scott - Drums

Pete Grossmann - Synth on Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale

Review

Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island is the latest album from Progressive/Psych Doom Metallers BEWARE OF GODS and it’s beautifully weird as much as it is musically complex with the band creating a heavy and uncompromising style of music. BEWARE OF GODS is mainly the work of Jason O’Donnell who is joined on the record by the likes of Feederwire, Eric Plonka, Kellii Scott and Pete Grossmann on different parts of the album.

This has an experimental Post-Doom and Post-Metal theme at its creative core with foreboding Progressive instrumental passages that draw inspiration from the Industrial Rock/Metal world. There’s a mysterious Electronica and Sludgy guitar movement with Jason’s twisted vocals moving between clean vocals and harsh growls that come alive within the excellent second track The End Of The Wide Awake Nightmare. Surreal and nightmarish soundscapes blend Ambient textures and sullen heavy instrumental sounds that keep up with the Industrial and Electronic based sounds, glitches and beats that never feel out of place.

The standout track has to be the brilliantly titled third track Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale which feels inspired by the likes of NEUROSIS, ISIS and AUTHOR & PUNISHER. The Post-Doom surroundings transform into a progressive style of Post-Metal with massive amounts of gloomy Psychedelics allowing the band to align themselves closer to the DOOM & GLOOM world that TYPE O NEGATIVE made their names with. The song runs past the fifteen minutes mark with BEWARE OF GODS playing multiple different styles of Post-Doom and Sludge Metal where you can hear traces of Alt Metal and Grunge which I didn’t expect at all.

The rest of the album follows the same experimental narrative as Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale with moments of Post-Metal, Psych and Post-Doom methodology taking the record into heavier and twisted waters especially on tracks such as D.I.E. Sect and The Science Of Slow Moving Monsters.

Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island continues the bleak sonic vision that BEWARE OF GODS first started back in 2022 with their debut release Upon Whom The Last Light Descends PT I: I Am Named After Death. Both albums have similar themes and sounds to each other but both standout as highly original works with different stories to entice listeners with. You could consider both records different sides of the same coin with BEWARE OF GODS once again creating a complex, challenging and refreshing style of Post-Doom and Post-Metal that will haunt your very being for a long time to come.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Desert Bloom PR for all of the details.

Links

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Album Premiere Of Progressive Doom/Post-Metallers BEWARE OF GODS Epic New Album: Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island.

While founding member, principal composer, Jason O’Donnell aka The Archetype is steeped in an affinity for & consciousness of the Proto Doom Metal tradition, there is way more going on in his compositions & productions than what can be easily placed into one box/genre. That awareness shifts my attention to The Archetype’s at times, hauntingly pained melodic voice juxtaposed against ‘blackened’ discordant whispered screams or guttural growls that tip the hat to Chris Cornell, Chino Moreno or Thou as much as perhaps Ozzy Osbourne. 

In terms of ambient soundscapes, there are also stellar initial stabs at sound design work on PT I that bring to mind Skinny Puppy or even NIN. From here, my journey into the B. O. G. gets really interesting because the addition of Sound Design veteran Feederwire & Engineer/Producer Pete Grossmann (Gates To Hell, Warforged, Weekend Nachos, Frail Body, Scientist, Huntsmen) of Bricktop Recording is already bringing the concept into even more focus & catapulting it into what The Archetype references in the intro ‘Concussion Dream’ as ‘Amnesia Island’ : “A post apocalyptic glitchy outpost floating in a bio mechanical ocean that is appearing to lead us along, with it’s protagonist/hero I Nomad, into an even deeper hybrid of analog & digital sounds that provide the landscape for a cast of broken antagonists trapped... 

Thanks to the amazing folks over at DESERT BLOOM PR we're beyond excited to premiere the brilliantly destructive chapter from BEWARE OF GODS and their extraordinary new album - Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island.

The Lowdown

Jason O'Donnell - Vocals, Guitar, Bass & Synth

Feederwire - Sound Design & Additional Guitars on Submerged...

Eric Plonka - Additional Guitars on Temple Of Thieves and D. I. E. Sect

Kellii Scott - Drums

Co Produced, Engineered & Mixed - Pete Grossmann

Mastered - Brad Boatright

Recorded at : Bricktop Recording

Executive Producer - Christopher Dyer

Artwork - Unexpected Specter

Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island will be available to buy digitally from Friday 02nd May 2025 and our review will be published within the next few days.

Thanks to Desert Bloom PR for all of the details.

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