Track By Tracks: Bleeding Antlers - Songs Of Praise (2026)

1. The Devil of Mariazell (4:22):

A Faustian blood pact drawn for relief, not riches. Snare crack, processional guitars, doomy riff — the perfect overture. Loads of air around the drums for Pete’s signature “kit falling down the stairs” fills.

2. Meet Me in the Woods at Midnight (5:00):

A candlelit folk-horror drinking song — half brotherly knees-up, half invitation to black mass. The chorus is a call to party naked in the woods for Pan.

3. Blue Jeans (3:36):

Our take on the Lana Del Rey classic — all the heartache and longing, dropped into baritone. Unashamedly high drama.

4. When the Sun Bursts (4:59):

First single, first song written for the album. A stompy doom groove with lamenting wails, built on Christopher Bollas’s writing on fragmentation of the self in psychosis — the conflict between catastrophe and relief as you’re engulfed by another.

5. The Ghost of Oliver Reed (4:44):

A lament for lost opportunity, hope, and soul — a debt that can never be spent, doomed to relive its own hell on loop.

6. Fimbulwinter (6:20):

Grinding, wailing groove metal for the last stand of the Norse gods — the three-year winter before Ragnarök. Resonates as much now as it did 800 years ago.

7. Crooked Lines (4:29):

The closing argument. Prometheus stealing fire from Zeus stands in for the album’s central tension: Prometheus/Lucifer as the narcissistic solution — self-made fire, defiance, isolation — versus choosing God, the object-seeking solution — real relief, but only by surrendering control. The narrator can’t decide which master deserves worship.

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