Personal battles, musical versatility and singing from the heart… Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos and Adam De Micco invite us into the studio to reveal what’s to come from their impending fifth album.
Lorna Shore are back in a big way this year with long-awaited fifth full-length, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me. Will Ramos and Adam De Micco open up on the darkness at the heart of the deathcore stars’ daring new direction…
Will: “In the past, I have generally written fictional stories, just focusing on trying to be deathcore and heavy. For this album, I tried to take inspiration from my own personal experiences. For instance, on [2022’s] Pain Remains, I wrote the lyric, ‘A world without you isn’t meant for me.’ I love that line, but it’s not about a real situation. Pain Remains was so long ago, and we’ve all had a lot of growth since. This time, I’ve written about my father, my history of family issues, and a few of us have had a loss to come to terms with and move forward from. These personal battles are what will make this album stand out. It’s a new and improved Lorna Shore: everything that we do, but better.”
Adam: “I feel like we had a little bit of a taste of this on the last record, by dipping our toe into a level of vulnerability that we’d never experienced before. Had we not, I don’t know if we’d be ready for it now. Now, it doesn’t feel like such a risk. We’re more confident and comfortable. That doesn’t feel as scary because we’re just being ourselves. It’s important to tell our story, having emotion dictate sounds and choices musically. We shouldn’t shy away from that, especially if you feel like you want to release that [emotion] and it has to go somewhere. There’s no better place to put it than on the record, and hopefully other people can relate to it. It wasn’t a conscious decision, it just felt natural to do. Every song came from an honest and genuine place.”
Will: “I remember being a kid, going to Warped Tour and sweating my balls off – the worst experience ever. But then you’d see this band and they’re not talking about rolling heads or frickin’ murder or some shit. It’s all about real-life experience, and there’ll be this one moment where everybody sings and in my mind, I’m like, ‘That must be such a beautiful thing.’ So I wanted to do that myself. That’s what inspired me to be a vocalist a long time ago, but now I’m really trying to lock in on that. When I sing something, I want it to come from my heart. I want to feel it when somebody else sings it back. Maybe they can relate to it in a real way and we’re both feeling the same feeling. I was finally ready to take that step.”
Adam: “There’s some songs that may surprise people because they’re a little different – not in a scary way, but it’s an exciting change for us. Whatever the centre nucleus of our sound has been, we’ve really stretched it out in so many directions. Some of those are my favourite songs on this record.”
Will: “We wanted to make music that could make people in an arena feel freaking awesome, without taking away from what Lorna Shore always was. I’m sure somebody out there is gonna be like, ‘Fuck Lorna Shore! I fucking hate it!’ But whatever. We have music for everybody on here. It’s super-inclusive while at the same time being real to ourselves. It’s the most versatile Lorna Shore record yet.”
I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me is due out on September 12 via Century Media. Lorna Shore play Download Festival on June 15 – get your tickets now. This feature originally appeared in the summer 2025 issue of Kerrang!.
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