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Six years after the release of the previous album “False Confession,” WEEPING SORES return with “The Convalescences Agonies,” a stunning new death/doom album that – as the title suggests – springs from a state of profound suffering and prostration. “In late 2018, during the recording of the previous album, I severely injured my right shoulder,” says singer/guitarist Doug Moore (PYRRHON, SCARCITY, SEPUTUS). “The wound disabled my arm to the point of uselessness, and left me completely unable to play guitar for nearly a year. After months of physical therapy, I began to regain the ability to perform and I decided that a new WEEPING SORES album would offer fitting motivation for me to continue my rehabilitation.”
The initial fragments of “The Convalescence Agonies” were written during those first painful reunions between Moore and his instrument, and those halting efforts marked the beginning of a 5-year struggle to complete the work, which ran through a global pandemic, broken interpersonal relationships, and the continual resistance of Moore’s ruined shoulder, not fully healed to this day.
“I poured everything I could into this album, and became a completely different person over the course of its creation,” Moore admits. “Still, I nearly failed to finish it. Only the aid of many dear friends and collaborators saw it through in the end.” The work features not only the trusted drummer Steve Schwegler, the other half of WEEPING SORES, but also several guests who, with keyboards, cello, banjo and additional guitars, enrich the American band’s imposing death/doom constructions, always tense and dramatic.
Wrapped in an elegant cover painting by Caroline Harrison, “The Convalescence Agonies” is a meditation on chronic pain and sacrifice: How they transform your body and mind, and how letting go of the past is sometimes your only hope for relief.
For fans of EVOKEN, dISEMBOWELMENT, EDGE OF SANITY, MORBID ANGEL
