Dutch Dark Rockers Dool published the official video for the track “Venus in Flames” taken from upcoming new album “The Shape Of Fluidity” due out on April 19, 2024 via Prophecy Productions. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
Everything flows, nothing ever stays the same. The same can be said about the third studio album of the fast-rising Dutch Rock band Dool. Aptly entitled “The Shape of Fluidity” there is not just musical innovation but the full-length revolves around themes of personal change, physical change, psychological change, and the ever-changing world around us. Dool and particularly singer and guitarist Raven van Dorst ask questions: How does change affect us? How do we keep being ourselves in a world that is so incredibly demanding and aggressive towards the individual? We must be as fluid as water to navigate ourselves through this ocean of possibilities and uncertainties – and make peace with chaos and impermanence. Musically, Dool continue on the path laid out on the two previous studio recordings of heartfelt Rock music with added Metal elements, while displaying a maturity and focus in songwriting that has grown out of experience. “The Shape of Fluidity” exhibits an eclectic yet seamless amalgamation of Progressive and Post-Rock as well as Doom and Heavy Metal in combination with an inherent catchiness and a dynamic backdrop. It is hardly surprising that the theme of the album that pitches the concept of identity against the backdrop of a world in constant flux connects the album’s lyrics to the biography of lead vocalist Raven. Born intersex, doctors at the time assumed that they could surgically determine which kind of life the infant should lead and decided that the child should be a girl. This has led to a life full of soul searching, fighting taboos and breaking boundaries, until recently Raven decided to reclaim that which others have tried so hard to take away from them, and finally embrace their hermaphroditic nature. The band derived the name Dool from the Dutch word for ‘wandering‘. When their debut album “Here Now, There Then” was released in 2017, it became an instant success.
Tracklist:
- Venus in Flames
- Self-Dissect
- The Shape of Fluidity
- Currents
- Evil in You
- House of a Thousand Dreams
- Hermagorgon
- Hymn for a Memory Lost
- The Hand of Creation
Lineup:
Raven van Dorst / Vocals and Guitar
Micha Haring / Drums
JB van der Wal / Bass
Nick Polak / Guitar
Omar Iskandr / Guitar
