Seattle doom pushers Mother Crone are performing the soundtrack to this year’s Pacific Northwest winter—dark, heavy and gloomy—on their new single “Unseen Way.” If you ever want to be discouraged from living in this part of the country, spend six months here during a La Niña weather event: rain, wind, rain and more rain. And flooding. Months of extended meteorological misery. So we appreciate the fact that Mother Crone—Preston Wilson (bass), Charlie Romano (drums), Edoardo Curatolo (guitar), Joe Frothingham (guitar/vocals)—have managed to channel that ennui into something powerful and emotional. “Unseen Way” is eight minutes of progressive, twisty doom with thrashy underpinnings, the epic opener of the quartet’s upcoming second full-length, Embrace the Death.
Embrace the Death is set for release by the band on March 4 via its Bandcamp page. Place your preorder here.
Guitarist/vocalist Joe Frothingham had this to say about the new single:
“I view ‘Unseen Way’ as an entry point into a journey that endeavors to confront that in my past which I’ve been too afraid or ashamed to face. In the late ’90s, when I was a teenager, my life collapsed in multiple ways over the course of about three years. It was awful. This whole record is my attempt to bring some closure to the grief, guilt and shame that have been fairly crippling ever since. This song in particular is kind of a threshold, a briefing as well as a prep talk about the coming journey, laying out the stakes and costs of what is to come. Ultimately the song culminates in surrender to both what has been and to facing what is to come.”
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