EPK – Shores of Null Split album with Convocation – Latitudes of Sorrow (2025) (Everlasting Spew Records)
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
“Combining all the various expressions of doom and assembling one of the most grievous and heavy splits you will have the chance to face for years, SHORES OF NULL and CONVOCATION have conjured to release exclusive brand new tracks together in a meaty split that will finally make all your summers end!”
For fans of Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Evoken, Esoteric
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Track Listing:
1. Shores Of Null – An Easy Way
2. Shores Of Null – The White Wound
3. Shores Of Null – The Year Without Summer
4. Convocation – Abaddon’s Shadow
5. Convocation – Empty Room
Split Album Length:
Split Album Credits (for the Shores Of Null side only):
• All songs performed by: Shores Of Null
• All songs written by: Raffaele Colace, Gabriele Giaccari, Davide Straccione
• Produced by: Shores Of Null and Marco “Cinghio” Mastrobuono
• Mixed by: Marco “Cinghio” Mastrobuono at Bloom Recording Studios, Rome
• Mastered by: Marco “Cinghio” Mastrobuono at Bloom Recording Studios, Rome
• Album Artwork by: Lauri Laaksonen (Convocation)
Convocation‘s side of the split was recorded and mixed at The Desolate Dungeon, and mastered at Trollhouse Audio. Lauri Laaksonen created the cover art for the split, with layout by Giorgio Spevo. Split mastering and vinyl mastering was done by Carlo Altobelli at Toxic Basement.
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About The Split Album Artwork of “Latitudes of Sorrow”:
The artwork for ‘Latitudes of Sorrow’ was created by LL of Convocation. The cover portrays someone who has either left or remains as a haunted, spectral presence in a vast, lonely, void-like space. The empty chair is a powerful image that evokes presence in absence.
About the split album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Speaking on behalf of both bands, ‘Latitudes Of Sorrow’ combines doom-laden heaviness with haunting, melancholic atmospheres, creating vast, introspective spaces where absence, mortality, and inner turmoil resonate. It shows two different faces of doom metal that complement each other.
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
1. An Easy Way
It is the song that opens the split, and it is the most straightforward of all our songs in there. It has a dual nature: on the one hand, it’s quite catchy and memorable; on the other, it retains a deep inextinguishable darkness that leaves very little room for hope. Lyrically, it deals with depression and the inner struggle, as well as the temptation to surrender when everything seems utterly bleak. It is a reflection on human frailty that can lead to self-destruction.
2. The White Wound
This song was inspired by the avalanche that struck Hotel Rigopiano on January 18, 2017, in the Central Italian region of Abruzzo, near where I grew up. Imagine 120.000 tons of snow coming down from the mountain at the speed of 100 km/h and destroying everything on its way. 29 people died and only 11 survived. Musically, it blends doom-and-gloom passages with sudden blackened blastbeats, reflecting the unpredictable violence of nature. Lyrically, the song meditates on grief, loss, and the anger over the negligence that allowed the tragedy to happen, leaving lasting emotional scars.
3. The Year Without Summer
Browsing the web for catastrophic events, I came across an unprecedented volcanic eruption that took place in 1816 in modern-day Indonesia, which triggered devastating consequences. Sunlight was obscured, temperatures plummeted, and the world faced famine, floods, and epidemics. The song captures the fear, uncertainty, and despair of that time, exploring both the material devastation and the inner turmoil of those who lived through it. It’s a meditation on fragility, loss, and the inescapable force of nature. It features MN of Convocation of growls.
Shores of Null stand out from their contemporaries with their ability to blend seemingly disparate elements into their sound, overwhelmingly heavy and soothing at the same time: blackened aggression stands alongside gothic-doom sections without either sounding out of place. Their music can be both melancholic and majestic, made of chorale-like guitar textures across the instrument’s entire range, sustained by a powerful rhythmic section and punctuated by a refined mixture of clean and growled vocals, along with extensive use of pleasing vocal harmonies which have become the band’s trademark through the years.
The Rome-based metal band has been an unwavering presence within the metal underground since their musical outset in 2013, churning out a series of impressive records: the melodic and somber Quiescence (Candlelight, 2014), the darker and more complex Black Drapes For Tomorrow (Candlelight/Spinefarm, 2017), and the ambitious Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying) (Spikerot Records, 2020), a 38-minute long doom manifesto that sees guest appearances of the doom-titans Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow The Sun) and Thomas A.G. Jensen (Saturnus), along with the angelic voice of Elisabetta Marchetti (Inno).
Shores Of Null’s fourth album, The Loss Of Beauty, released in March 2023, was hailed as one of the best albums of the year within the genre. The band supported the release with an extensive EU/UK tour alongside Swallow The Sun, Draconian, and Avatarium, followed by standout performances at major festivals like Hellfest, Rock Imperium, and 70000 Tons Of Metal, among others, further solidifying their status as one of the rising forces in the metal scene.
In 2025, Shores of Null released Beauty over Europe, a powerful live album capturing the raw energy and emotional depth of their performances across the continent. The release serves as a testament to the band’s commanding stage presence and the resonance of their music with audiences worldwide. Looking ahead, the band is set to unveil Latitudes of Sorrow, a highly anticipated split album with Finnish funeral doom masters Convocation, promising a profound exploration of grief, atmosphere, and sonic weight.
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