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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LORDIAN ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM BLACK PASTORAL
Italian Solo Project Delivers Seven Dark Parables of Southern Gothic Doom, Doom Blues and Gospel Gone to Rot

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LORDIAN preaches from a country God abandoned.
The solo project of an Italian musician and member of Asphodelia , LORDIAN steps beyond the boundaries of traditional metal and into a darker, dust-covered world of doom blues, slide guitar, Southern Gothic atmosphere and corrupted gospel. The project’s debut album, Black Pastoral , arrives October 22, 2026 , digitally.
Built as a collection of seven bleak and cinematic parables, Black Pastoral explores drought, doubt, suffering, faith and the strange places where mercy and despair collide. Its songs travel through dust roads, drowned fields, shuttered churches and lonely highways, creating a landscape where religion has not necessarily disappeared, but whatever answers once came from above have long since stopped arriving.
This is not simply an album about darkness. It is about what remains when people continue praying after the answers have stopped.
Across Black Pastoral , LORDIAN presents a world where healing does not necessarily mean salvation. Suffering is passed from one body to another, buried in the soil or carried by the beasts. A dying dog sings beneath the wheel of dawn. A wandering healer breaks a fever only to leave fields filled with dead cattle. Christ crosses an American desert on foot and shares a warm beer with the Devil beside a dying gas station, two figures seemingly forgotten by the world around them.
The result is slow, heavy and cinematic, with the weight of doom meeting the rawness of blues, dark Americana and gospel music stripped of its comfort.


“Black Pastoral lives in the ruins of a faith gone rotten — the fear and the ritual still standing long after the mercy is gone. It’s a country God left behind, where the prayers fall like gravel and the dirt answers before the sky ever does. Not a record about a cruel God, but about what a person becomes when Heaven simply looks the other way.”
LORDIAN


Written and produced entirely by LORDIAN, Black Pastoral is a self-produced, one-man recording built around a singular vision. The album was mixed and mastered at Walls Of Sleep Studio , further shaping its stark, haunted atmosphere.
For listeners drawn to the darkness and blues-driven heaviness of Black Label Society , the experimental spiritual intensity of Zeal & Ardor , or the bleak storytelling of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , Black Pastoral offers something equally shadowed but distinctly its own.
“These are hymns for a faith left to rot in the ground.”
— LORDIAN
LORDIAN — Black Pastoral
Southern Gothic Doom / Doom Blues
October 22, 2026 · Digital
About LORDIAN

LORDIAN is the solo doom-blues project of an Italian musician and member of Asphodelia. Blending doom, slide guitar, dark Americana and gospel imagery, LORDIAN creates slow, cinematic music rooted in stories of faith, suffering and the landscapes left behind when hope disappears.
Dust Gospel by Lordian

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https://lordian1.bandcamp.com/track/dust-gospel
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LORDIAN
walls.sleep@gmail.com

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