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Lorna Shore

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New Jersey deathcore act whose blackened, orchestral extremity broke out of the underground once Will Ramos took the mic — vocal contortion as spectacle.

Lorna Shore came together in New Jersey, starting out with the metalcore EP Triumph in 2010 before moving toward deathcore with Bone Kingdom in 2012. The 2013 EP Maleficium leaned into black metal, and its video for "Godmaker" spread widely online, building the band's reputation ahead of a run of debut-album touring.

Their debut album, Psalms, came out in 2015 on Density Records, produced by Fit for an Autopsy guitarist Will Putney, and was followed by Flesh Coffin in 2017 on Outerloop Records. Both records combined death metal riffing with symphonic and black metal textures, the sound the band built its early identity on.

The band went through several vocalist changes: Tom Barber left in 2018 to join Chelsea Grin and was replaced by CJ McCreery, with guitarist Connor Deffley departing the following year. Will Ramos joined at the end of the decade, and his range of guttural and shrieked techniques, widely circulated in vocal-playthrough videos, brought Lorna Shore a much larger audience.

Their music pairs blast beats, tremolo-picked guitar and orchestral arrangements with breakdowns drawn from deathcore. After 2020's Immortal, the 2021 single "To the Hellfire" became their best-known track, and the band's profile has kept rising through Pain Remains in 2022 and I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me in 2025.

The current lineup pairs Ramos with lead guitarist Adam De Micco, the longest-serving member since 2010, alongside rhythm guitarist Andrew O'Connor, bassist Michael Yager and drummer Austin Archey; no member from the band's earliest years remains.

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