The Ohio-based duo Nobody made their advent last year with a pair of EPs (Fading Into Obscurity and Lifeless and Still), and have now recorded a debut album named Despair is Where My Thoughts Swim, which will be released on May 17th by End My Life Records/Tragedy Productions. For the album, the founders Troll and Ulver are joined by new vocalist Void.

You may see the genre labels of “post-black metal” or “post/depressive black metal” affixed to Nobody‘s music, which might be as good a way as any of trying to summarize versatile songs that really don’t fit neatly into any boxes and that draw inspiration from a host of sources, including sources outside of metal altogether.

But it might be better to just forget about labels, because the ones above might prove to be as misleading as they are predictive once you begin listening to the album. Even the terrible sadness and sense of regret and abandonment that the song titles and lyrics convey isn’t the sum total of the moods, and so even the “depressive” label isn’t a complete portrait.

To help you understand this, we’re premiering a lyric video for one of the album’s new songs, “Perpetual Torment“. Continue reading »