[Cover photo credit to Guilherme Henriques]

Following the release of their latest album, Gospel of Bones, the Doom Metal band Funeral have released a video for “Three Dead Men”.

The song is an “autobiographical reflection” by drummer and composer Anders Eek on the loss of three close friends within a seven year period, including former Funeral members Einar Fredriksen and Christian Loos.

The vocals on “Three Dead Men” are performed by guest vocalist Espen Ingierd of Beyond Dawn, whose restrained delivery contrasts with the operatic approach heard elsewhere on Gospel of Bones.

The new video for “Three Dead Men” uses “symbolic imagery centered on movement, stillness and isolated physical gestures to convey memory, absence and vulnerability. Rather than offering narrative resolution, its closing moments suggest continuation, with emotional weight remaining present as life moves forward.”

The roughly 20 tracks on the album were composed throughout the Covid pandemic (9 of whom made it to the studio), and yet again recorded and mixed at Toproom Studio, by Børge Finstad.

The lyrical content of the album is “an autobiography of life’s mishaps of drummer/composer  A. Eek, and deals with real darkness, misery, pain and loss.  A Gospel of Bones.”