SPIRITWORLD joined by Rise Against and Blackbraid members for new single ‘Oblivion’

19th February 2025 0 By Jon Deaux

With their new album, Helldorado, coming 21st March via Century Media Records, SPIRITWORLD reveal the album’s third single, ‘Oblivion’. Featuring guest appearances by Zach Blair (Rise Against) and Sgah’gahsowáh (Blackbraid), ‘Oblivion’ is another anthemic slab of the Las Vegas band’s signature

sound: thrashing hardcore, laced with Wild West stylings and a supernatural horror storyline.

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SPIRITWORLD founder/frontman Stu Folsom gives this statement about the song:

“‘Oblivion’ is one of my favourite songs off Helldorado! It was the song that took the most work to finish, but I am so glad that I kept pulling it back out of the dumpster to chip away at. It has a great mid-tempo headbanger groove that reminds me of growing up listening to early Obituary/Six Feet Under records full of Alan West riffage in my headphones, walking home from my graveyard shift selling booze and tampons at a 24/7 SAV-ON in East Las Vegas. We also got some help from our friends to polish it off. Zach Blair (Rise Against) tracked a blistering guitar solo and Sgah’gahsowáh (Blackbraid) put down vocals that really lift the song to a whole different level. It is an honour and very flattering to have people from bands I love, willing to collaborate and add their style to this project.”

The iconoclastic Folsom has been building the SPIRITWORLD universe since 2020, beginning with the band’s debut, Pagan Rhythms, and blossoming on sophomore album Deathwestern, both released on Century Media. More than a musician, Folsom is an author too, and SPIRITWORLD‘s music goes hand in hand with Folsom’s writings. The first two albums were soundtracks to his book, Godlessness, a series of Lovecraftian horror tales set in a fictional Old West.

Third album Helldorado cements the band’s brand, while making new moves that show the breadth of the potential in store. Across the album’s ten tracks, SPIRITWORLD indulge in metallic hardcore blitzes, world-weary country-punk stomps, and even a wistful, finger-picked lament. Folsom acknowledges the diversity of the music: “This record, more so than the last two, I think you hear way more fearlessness and confidence in the choices… If that makes me an outcast or even more fringe than your average underground music act, then that’s okay. The stench of being genuine is beautiful.”

Assessing the anomaly that is SPIRITWORLD, Stereogum has hailed it as “a gory symphony that owes as much to Slayer as Cormac McCarthy” and as “a whole fleshed-out universe of pulpy sonic violence inspired by Westerns, horror, outlaw country, the occult, and the heavy metal classics of the late 20th century.” Revolver Magazine has stated: “Their cinematic cowboy outfits, the Wild West lore in their songs, their off-the- wall music videos — all of it feels more like a multi-disciplinary art project than a mere metal band.”

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