On April 10th Dutch dark rock band Dool will release their long awaited second studio album Summerland via Prophecy. Summerland was recorded at DAFT Studios in Malmédy, Belgium, and Studio Cobra in Stockholm, Sweden with Martin Ehrencrona (Tribulation, In Solitude). Mix and mastering were handled by Cult Of Luna's drummer Magnus Lindberg in Redmount Studio Stockholm. The first single Sulphur & Starlight is out now.
Summerland follows the highly acclaimed debut Here Now, There Then. "Our debut Here Now, There Then was a big experiment because we could not foresee at all how the band would sound," reveals singer, guitarist and overall powerhouse Ryanne van Dorst. "I took the skeletons of songs I had written to the other members, and we just started to jam, seeing what would happen. That was what we recorded, but we only found our own style while playing gigs during the last few years.”
Summerland encapsulates the meaning behind the quintet's monicker. Expansive and more varied on all fronts, it represents the constant evolution that goes along with the soul's quest for ascension, resulting in a bedazzling mix of dark and post rock, Midde Eastern flourishes, psychedelia and metal. Each track displays its own identity within a loose thematic frame as summarized in the climactic title track: the struggle to find a place in this world, reaching some ultimate state of mind, ecstatic pleasure and reincarnation, also inspired by Richard Matheson's novel What Dreams May Come as a modern take on the biblical cycles of hell.
The term 'summerland' comes from paganism and refers to heaven. "Since I usually write from experience and about what keeps me awake at night, I was asking myself what makes me happy on this existential plane and how the ideal afterlife would look like. This became a recurring motif throughout the lyrics in the shapes of sex, magic, psychedelics and many other means to invoke this 'summerland' in the here and now."
The first single of the album Sulphur & Starlight is out now. “Sulphur & Starlight is a song about dualism. The reflection and the reflected, two sides of the same mirror. What is left of one Self in the eye of the Other and vice versa? It is the opening track of Summerland and makes a great starting point for the journey through the album’s theme.” - says Ryanne van Dorst.
Dool will present Summerland at Roadburn festival which will be followed by an European tour.
- 17 April - Roadburn Festival, Tilburg / NL
- 02 May - Headbanger’s Ball Festival, Izegem / BE
- 21 May - Doornroosje, Nijmegen / NL
- 22 May - De Helling, Utrecht / NL
- 23 May - Sniester Festival, Den Haag / NL
- 28 May - Patronaat, Haarlem / NL
- 29 May - Metropool, Hengelo / NL
- 30 May - Vera, Groningen / NL
- 19 June - Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel / BE
- 18 July - Welcome to the Village Festival, Leeuwarden / NL
For all dates and info visit: www.allthosewhowanderaredool.com