Weaving together black/death intensity and vast funeral doom ritualism, Witherer crafts soundscapes both punishing and dreamlike, claustrophobic and immense, ruthless and meditative. Veterans of the black and death metal genres, these pseudonymous musicians shed the skin of previous identities to completely submerge themselves within this project’s depressive gloom. Following an unreleased demo and the 2019 single “Milk Sea (Bathing in its Waves),” Witherer entered a multi-year phase of songwriting for its first full-length album, “Shadow Without a Horizon.” This produced a greater compositional focus on doom metal, leading to a reformulation of the band’s earlier atmospheric black metal sound into the blackened death/doom monstrosity it has emerged as today. The band also transformed from a one-man project into a three piece, as founding musician and lead songwriter/lyricist Tiamoath was joined by guitarist Øhrracle and drummer Hex Visceræ. Set to be released on Hypaethral Records in June, 2025, “Shadow Without a Horizon” slices through genre conventions and plummets into the furthest subterranean corners of the earth’s bloodless veins.

The suffocating darkness of archaic, lithic walls… The oneiric, labyrinthine descent into timeless caverns… Ancient waters carve deeper and deeper, leading the wailing spectres down, towards the void, all-consuming darkness above and beneath, opaque, silent…

Witherer’s debut full-length, “Shadow Without a Horizon,” ruthlessly plummets into the furthest subterranean corners of blackened death/doom metal. These five evocations seal the listener within the earth’s bloodless veins, as writhing black/death passages convulse alongside ritualistic funeral doom, spiraling downwards, onwards, until finally all that is left is the endless abyss of the cosmos, indistinguishable from the pitch blackness of the earth’s deepest vaults.

Different confrontations with mortality amongst all three members during the writing and recording process created an alchemical intensity to the performances. “I had already described the album as an hour-long memento mori,” Tiamoath explains. “The fact that health issues and brushes with death occurred during the process of creating this release was certainly difficult, but it was conducive to the theme of ‘Shadow Without a Horizon.’ I think it’s a recording that will stick with us all because of that, and was profoundly cathartic as a result.”

On “Shadow Without a Horizon,” the vile depths and dragging slowness of funeral doom are punctuated by throttling black/death metal chaos; churning violence gives way to airy, spectral passages, and mournful ambience is sliced through with feverish convulsions in a truly distinctive approach to blackened death/doom.