Locusts and Honey

Emerging like an apparition from the boggy marshes of the UK, Locusts and Honey is a dark ambient funeral doom band, haunting the sonic landscape with their debut LP "Teach me to live that I dread the grave as little as my bed," to be released in Spring 2024 by Hypaethral Records. “Teach me to live that I dread the grave as little as my bed” is a meditation on death and living well, inspired by the bog bodies of Ireland and Denmark – people of the Iron Age who were sacrificially hanged and found extremely well-preserved in peat. Crafted with meticulous care, this opus of dejection comprises a single, sprawling 28-minute odyssey that was mastered by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios, renowned for his work with luminaries such as Thantifaxath, Panzerfaust, and Olde. Rooted in the fertile soil of early '90s doom, infused with the raw essence of black metal, and bathed in the ethereal embrace of cinematic soundscapes, Locusts and Honey conjure a sonic maelstrom that traverses the realms of darkness and despair. Vocalist Stephen Murray's anguished growls, which invoke memories of Lee Dorian, are intertwined with the melancholic melodies of multi-instrumentalist Tomás Robertson to cast a spell of sorrow and fury upon all who dare to listen. Since their inception in the Autumn of 2023, Locusts and Honey have transported listeners into a realm where shadows reign supreme; where each haunting note is a dagger to the heart and each mournful chord a lament for the lost.