[news] Tokyo-based doom rock duo 沈む鉛 (Shizumunamari) release their second album (led by Namari Toyama)
Tokyo-based nihilist doom rock duo Shizumunamari (沈む鉛) are back, and their second album Nagasugita Genjitsu is out now via Shit-Eye Cassettes.
Listen here: https://shizumunamari.bandcamp.com/album/nagasugita-genjitsu
It’s a two-track release, but both songs are extended, and the total running time sits close to full-length territory. It includes “Nagayama”, which draws on the case known as the National Police Agency Wide-Area Designated Case No. 108 (the “serial pistol murder” case), linked to Norio Nagayama. The cover artwork is by painter Ken Hamaguchi.
“Nagayama” is built on a classic doom riff, kept tight and minimal, with vocals that lean into fragile nuance and strain. There are traces of Japanese pop sensibility and visual kei phrasing in how the melodies land. Drums come from Ebianime, also known for his work in doom/death band Heteropsy (Caligari Records), adding weight and shadow without crowding the riff.
The second track, the 22-minute “Long Song (Nagai Kyoku)”, opens with delicate arpeggios and inward vocals, then shifts into a long, spare jam that lets the tension build slowly. Namari Toyama’s lyrics unfold in a narrative voice, moving forward with the music.
The release sits inside the band’s own NWOJDM (New Wave Of Japanese Doom Metal) idea, and will click with listeners who like doom that stays minimal, heavy, and mood-first.
"If the people of this world, I thought, are going to taste evil through their lives and their deeds, then I shall plunge as deep as I can into an inner world of evil.”
Yukio Mishima, Kinkaku-ji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion).
Links:
https://shizumunamari.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/shizumunamari/
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