Following on from the universal acclaim of their latest LP, Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro, Rome releases one of the most impressive releases in its prolific career of 15 years. The Lone Furrow is the logical culmination of Rome’s previous endeavours, a brilliant and patient demolition of the despiritualized modern age, timeless in its critique of man’s greed and the deliberate desecration of beautiful things. Rome is back to fearlessly settle accounts of the spirit, with that grave trademark voice, whose tone can be likened to a wise-man’s oracle, deepened by countless cigars and pools of stout, or, at times, a Stuka bomber nose-diving into dry gravel.

Rome’s art always stays slightly beyond the pale and Reuter certainly is what the mainstream would call a joyous outsider. The Lone Furrow is a mordant, clear-eyed critique of the modern world, spun with the delicacy of a spiderweb; a journey through the ravaged landscapes of history; a spiritual quest weaving a unique poetry of withdrawal from the troubling world into distant retreats. And yet, at the same time, this collection of remarkable compositions is a generous invitation to a great European tradition of literary thought from Hesse to Nietzsche, from Tacitus to Orwell, from Ovid to the Edda, from Yeats to Baudelaire.

Rome is a dark world that glows with the intensity of Jerome’s remarkable gift for language. Its multilingual nature has always been an essential part of Rome - certainly in its sample work- and Reuter is showcasing this by singing (mainly) in English but including songs in French and German on The Lone Furrow as well.

On ‘Ächtung, Baby!’ (a tongue-in-cheek reference to U2’s 1991 record) Jerome is joined by Alan Averill of metal cult band Primordial. Indeed, the features and guest appearances are numerous on this record. This shows the fact that, through years of composing high quality albums, Rome has become a secret authority in the European underground as a songwriter’s songwriter. And thus, Reuter, a poet with the soul of a warrior, has managed to assemble an impressive/stellar cast of guest vocalists. Most notably is the guest appearance of Behemoth’s Adam Nergal Darski on the ‘The Angry Cup’, on which Nergal not only performs lead vocals but adds an intriguingly brutal Polish incantation. Further guests are Laure Le Prunenec of Rïcïnn, Joseph D. Rowland of US-doom band Pallbearer, J.J. of Austria’s Harakiri For The Sky.

Tracklisting:

Masters Of The Earth (ft. Aki Cederberg)

Tyriat Sig Tyrias

Ächtung, Baby! (ft. Alan Averill of PRIMORDIAL)

Making Enemies In The New Age (ft. Joseph D. Rowland of PALLBEARER)

The Angry Cup (ft. Adam Nergal Darski of BEHEMOTH/ME AND THAT MAN)

The Twain

Kali Yuga Über Alles

The Weight Of Light

The Lay Of Iria (ft. J. J. of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY)

On Albion’s Plain

Palmyra (ft. Laure Le Prunenec of RÏCÏNN)

Obsidian

A Peak Of One's Own

Having just announced details of a UK headline tour that commences next March, Everything Everything share their new single ‘Violent Sun’. It’s the latest song to preview the band’s fifth album Re-Animator which follows on September 11.

The closing track on the new album, ‘Violent Sun’ feels like a first in the Everything Everything catalogue. It’s a propulsive rush of melody with a cinematic scale. The band wanted it to feel like the last song played on the dance floor. Frontman Jonathan Higgs commented, “‘Violent Sun’ is about the feeling that something terrible is approaching fast, and you want to hold on to this moment forever. It’s the last song of the night, and the last song of your life. You only have these four minutes to make it happen, so make it happen!”

That urgency also informs the accompanying video. Using a GoPro camera, each band member filmed himself frantically sprinting through their localities during lockdown. And there’s no let-up in the interspersed performance footage. At first glance, nothing is out of the ordinary as the band tear into the song, each wearing red jumpsuits that contrast the white background. But a closer look reveals a subtle reference to a traumatic moment in Everything Everything’s recent history. On the day lockdown was announced the band’s lock-up in Manchester caught fire, destroying much of their equipment. They used some of the burnt instruments in this video, their blackened embers chalking the backdrop.

See Everything Everything live in 2021

19 Mar | Nottingham, Rock City

20 Mar |Birmingham, O2 Academy

22 Mar | Norwich, UEA

23 Mar |Liverpool, O2 Academy

25 Mar |Manchester, Academy

26 Mar |Glasgow, SWG3 - Galvanizers

27 Mar |Newcastle, O2 Academy

29 Mar |Leeds, O2 Academy

30 Mar |Bristol, O2 Academy

1 Apr | London, Roundhouse

3 Apr |Brighton, Dome

5 Apr |Dublin, Olympia Theatre