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Portland-based trio Darkswoon have officially unleashed their latest full-length album, Antivenom, today. If you’ve been following the dark alternative scene for a bit, you’ll know these three don’t exactly do “cheerful,” but they do “atmospheric” better than most. Combining darkwave, post-punk, and a healthy dose of shoegaze, the new record is a bit of a … Continue reading Darkswoon drop new darkwave record ‘Antivenom’

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Lorna Shore’s albums tell the strangest success story in modern extreme metal. Five studio records across a decade, four different vocalists, one firing that nearly ended the band, and a global breakthrough that arrived on a three-song EP rather than an album. From a raw 2015 debut on a tiny label to a 66-minute symphonic monster in 2025, no band this heavy has changed this much this fast. Here’s every Lorna Shore album ranked worst to best — and the highest-charting one isn’t at the top.

Before the countdown: the band that shouldn’t have made it

Some context, because it’s the reason this ranking looks the way it does.

Lorna Shore spent over a decade as a New Jersey deathcore band that nobody outside the scene had heard of. Three vocalists came and went. Then in December 2019, weeks before their third album was due, frontman CJ McCreery was fired following public allegations of sexual misconduct — and the record came out anyway, into a scene that had every reason to write them off.

What happened next has no real precedent. A stand-in vocalist named Will Ramos, brought in for a tour that COVID immediately cancelled, turned out to be one of the most technically astonishing extreme metal singers alive. A three-song EP went viral. And a band that had been grinding for eleven years became festival headliners in about eighteen months.

Guitarist Adam De Micco and drummer Austin Archey are the constants through all of it. They’re the actual architects here, and every album on this list is really a record of what they were reaching for at the time.

Check this out: Loaded Radio’s definitive Top 13 Deathcore Bands of All Time

Lorna Shore Albums Ranked: From the Abyss to the Apex

5. Psalms (2015)

The debut, and the sound of a band with more ideas than focus.

Released on Density Records with Tom Barber on vocals, Psalms is raw, technical and genuinely brutal — a smorgasbord of riffs rather than a coherent album, but a real statement of intent. Barber’s attack is menacing and De Micco’s playing is already frighteningly precise. What’s missing is everything that would later define them: no orchestration, no cinematic scale, no sense of a band building cathedrals.

Barber left in 2016 for Chelsea Grin, which turned out to be the first of several vocalist departures that would keep reshaping this band.

Listen to it as an artifact. It’s the only Lorna Shore record that sounds like a hundred other deathcore records.

Vocalist: Tom Barber Label: Density Records Why it’s last: competent brutality, no identity yet

4. Flesh Coffin (2017)

The bridge record, and a big step forward.

CJ McCreery took over vocals, the production got significantly cleaner, and the songwriting started reaching outside the genre’s boundaries. De Micco has talked about drawing on technical death metal and — genuinely — pop melody, and you can hear both fighting for space here. It’s tighter, more considered and more ambitious than the debut.

It’s also the last Lorna Shore album that sounds like a band operating within deathcore rather than trying to escape it. The symphonic elements are hints. Two albums later they’d be the whole point.

Vocalist: CJ McCreery Label: Outerloop Records Why it’s here: real progress, still finding the voice

3. I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me (2025)

The newest one, and the hardest to place.

Released September 12, 2025 via Century Media and produced by Josh Schroeder, Everblack is 66 minutes of orchestral devastation — the most expansive, darkest, most cinematically ambitious thing they’ve made. The rollout was superb, starting with a cryptic black billboard near Newark Airport and building through “Oblivion” and “Prison Of Flesh”, the latter written by Ramos about his family’s experience with dementia.

The emotional peak isn’t a breakdown. It’s “Glenwood,” a genuine extreme metal power ballad about Ramos’s strained relationship with his father and going back to his childhood home. His one-take performance of it, filmed outside at night, is the best argument anyone’s made for him being the vocalist of his generation.

We reviewed it as a new standard for the genre and it landed on best-of-2025 lists everywhere, including ours.

So why third? Because it perfects a formula rather than inventing one. It’s the better-executed record. It isn’t the one that changed anything.

Vocalist: Will Ramos Label: Century Media Producer: Josh Schroeder Why it’s here: masterful refinement, not revolution

2. Immortal (2020)

The turning point, and the bravest record they ever made.

Immortal arrived in the worst possible circumstances — McCreery fired weeks before release, his vocals still all over it, the band’s future genuinely uncertain. And it’s the album where the symphonic Lorna Shore is born. Massive scale, blackened atmosphere, orchestration woven through the songs rather than layered on top. A bold creative leap made by a band that had every reason to play it safe.

Plenty of longtime fans still call this their favourite, and the argument is solid: it’s darker and more sinister than anything since, and it’s not chasing anything.

Everything that made Pain Remains possible is on this record. It just didn’t have the vocalist to carry it to the world yet.

Vocalist: CJ McCreery Label: Century Media Why it’s here: invented the sound, under impossible conditions

1. Pain Remains (2022)

The masterpiece, and it isn’t close.

Released October 14, 2022, this is the first full Lorna Shore album with Will Ramos, and it’s the moment every idea the band had been chasing since 2015 finally locked together. Symphonic scale, genuine songwriting, a vocalist capable of anything, and the confidence to close a deathcore record with a three-part, twenty-minute trilogy.

The “Pain Remains” trilogy is the reason this sits at number one. Nobody in this genre attempts that. Fewer still land it.

It took them from an underground buzz band to festival headliners in record time, and it’s the album every symphonic deathcore record since has been measured against — the reason they sit at the top of our ranking of the best deathcore bands ever, and a big part of why the whole genre broke into the mainstream.

Vocalist: Will Ramos Label: Century Media Why it’s first: the album that reset the genre.

Wait — where’s “To The Hellfire”?

This trips up almost everyone, so let’s settle it.

“To The Hellfire” — the song that broke this band globally, the one with the pig squeal that set the internet on fire, Loudwire’s 2021 Song of the Year — is not on any Lorna Shore album. It’s on the 2021 EP …And I Return to Nothingness, three songs recorded to test whether Ramos was the right fit. De Micco has said that was the whole point of doing an EP first.

It worked. He was.

For completeness, the EPs: Triumph (2010), Bone Kingdom (2012), Maleficium (2013), and …And I Return to Nothingness (2021).

If we ranked EPs alongside albums, …And I Return to Nothingness would sit second. But it’s three songs, so it gets its own mention rather than a slot.

The full ranking

5. Psalms (2015)
4. Flesh Coffin (2017)
3. I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025)
2. Immortal (2020)
1. Pain Remains (2022)

Lorna Shore albums in release order

Psalms — 2015 · Tom Barber
Flesh Coffin — 2017 · CJ McCreery
Immortal — 2020 · CJ McCreery
Pain Remains — October 2022 · Will Ramos
I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me — September 2025 · Will Ramos

TL;DR

• Five studio albums across a decade, with four different vocalists — one of the most dramatic evolutions in modern metal.
• Best: Pain Remains (2022) — the first full album with Will Ramos, and the record that reset symphonic deathcore. The three-part title trilogy is the reason.
• Worst: Psalms (2015) — technically brutal, but the only Lorna Shore album with no real identity of its own.
• Most underrated: Immortal (2020) — invented the symphonic sound while the band was in freefall after their vocalist was fired weeks before release.
• Newest: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025) — 66 minutes, produced by Josh Schroeder, and their most cinematic record. Lands third as a refinement rather than a revolution.
• The catch: “To The Hellfire,” their biggest song, isn’t on any album — it’s on the 2021 EP …And I Return to Nothingness.
• The constants: guitarist Adam De Micco and drummer Austin Archey have been there for all five.

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