Release Date May 29th, 2026
Format LP/CD/Digital
Genre Doom Metal
Origin United Kingdom
Godthrymm was formed by guitarist and vocalist Hamish Glencross, whose résumé spans My Dying Bride, Vallenfyre and Solstice, and drummer Shaun Taylor-Steels, equally rooted in My Dying Bride and Anathema. The band's current lineup expanded to include keyboardist and co-vocalist Catherine Glencross, bassist Bob Crolla and second guitarist Kris McLaughin. Three albums into their career and concluding the “Visions Trilogy” begun with "Reflections" in 2020 and continued through "Distortions" in 2023, Godthrymm has built one of the more convincing cases in recent UK doom for keeping that Peaceville-era tradition alive and evolving.
"Projections" opens with "Trenches Deep", which shifts gears in its second half into something more aggressive, bringing in guest vocals from English Dogs singer Adie Bailey and Xentrix frontman Jay Walsh. "Truth In My Own" follows as one of the most crushing things Godthrymm have put to tape, and the album's two longest tracks, "The Sun Never Fell" and "Endure My Skin", are the kind of slow-building, emotionally devastating doom epics that justify the entire exercise. Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride appears on "Endure My Skin" and takes a far more prominent vocal role than his spoken-word contribution on "Distortions", and his presence hits exactly as hard as you'd expect.
Catherine Glencross helms "Jewels" and closer "Hope Is Eternal" on her own, steering both into atmospheric and progressive territory. These are not filler moments, they add a dimension to the album that the band hadn't fully explored before, and they hold up on their own terms. The expanded lineup gives "Projections" a textural range that "Distortions" couldn't quite reach, and the album's production, handled across multiple studios with Andy Hawkins and Glencross, captures both the heaviness and the more delicate passages without compromise.
The Peaceville Three influence is baked into Godthrymm's DNA, and anyone paying attention already knew that. What "Projections" does is prove the band has enough of their own to say without coasting on those roots. This is the strongest, most complete album of their trilogy, and it earns that position through six tracks that know exactly when to crush and when to recede. Mitchell Nolte's cover art fits the mood. The whole thing lands as a proper statement from a band that has been building toward something, and this is it.
|8.3
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