Emerging once again from the shadows of rural Britain, anonymous solo project THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE has announced the release of their new full-length album Suicide Forest, arriving September 26, 2025 via Drone Alone. Alongside the announcement, the title track “Suicide Forest” is now available for streaming.
Written and recorded in solitude in a remote Welsh barn during winter 2024, Suicide Forest is an instrumental descent into psychological ruin, framed by loops of distorted guitar, subterranean bass, and meditative drones. The album’s eleven tracks move between suffocating sludge and eerie ambience, rooted in themes of trauma, detachment, and the long half-life of sorrow. There are no vocals. No catharsis. Just the sound of emotional erosion played at full volume.
The title track, “Suicide Forest,” takes its name from Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, a place both feared and mythologized. Here, the song becomes an abstract tribute to those spaces where despair and silence meet. What begins as a crushing riff slowly unravels into layered interference, reverse guitars, and bleak repetition. It’s not a journey out, it’s a slow march inward.
The album was engineered and co-mixed by Mike Bannard at Safehouse Studios, Oxford, with mastering, artwork, and production handled by THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE themselves. The result is a record that feels more exorcism than expression—music created not for others, but in spite of everything.
Suicide Forest follows 2024’s Church Music for Satanists EP, which gained underground attention for its immersive gloom and hypnotic minimalism. The new album expands on that aesthetic while deepening its emotional range and sonic intensity.
About THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE:
THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE is an anonymous solo project from Oxford, England, crafting bleak, instrumental sludge and drone since 2023. With no vocals, no public identity, and no live appearances, the music exists in complete isolation: just distortion, repetition, and emotional exhaustion.
Emerging from the Welsh countryside with the debut EP Church Music for Satanists in early 2024, THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE quickly established a signature sound: hypnotic, heavy, and relentlessly minimal. The follow-up full-length, Suicide Forest, released by drone alone in 2025, pushed further into themes of anxiety, decay, and existential fatigue, blending guitar-driven doom with eerie drones and field-recorded interference.
Influenced by artists such as ELECTRIC WIZARD, SUNN O))), EARTH, and CARTER/TUTTI/VOID, the project explores psychological weight through slow repetition and spiritual dissonance. There are no lyrics because nothing more needs to be said. The riffs are the message.
For those drawn to the darker corners of sound, where catharsis is earned through endurance, THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE offers a solitary descent.
Connect with THE SORROW OF BEING IMMACULATE:
- Bandcamp: https://dronealoneprods.bandcamp.com/album/the-sorrow-of-being-immaculate-ii-suicide-forest
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drone_alone_prods/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dronealone610
Track Listing:
- “Suicide Forest”
- “Sea of Trees”
- “30 Years of Nothing”
- “Oath of Decay”
- “Self-Immolation Plan”
- “Misery”
- “Theendlesslowlevelbackgroundhumofanxiety”
- “Winter Delusion”
- “Funeral Home Drone”
- “The Eye of the Goat”
- “Suicide Forest (demo)”
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