Having morphed into a three piece, SUM OF R are currently making the necessary preparations for Roadburn 2022, where they’ll perform their new album, Lahbryce, in full. They already released one single titled Crown of Diseased from Lahbryce, but now we are thrilled to bring you a further glimpse into what you can expect from the album as we premiere a live performance video of three tracks from the album, filmed at the DAFT studios last year.  We’ll hand over to Sum of R mainman, Reto Mäder to explain more about the session:

“The new Sum Of R trio line-up saw not only a transformation from an instrumental project to a band with vocals, but also an international expansion from Switzerland to Finland. Therefore it was clear to us that we wanted to use the few meetings all the more constructively, intensively and gratefully.
With this in mind, we booked a live recording day at the DAFT studios in Malmedy in early October 2021, directly following our first ever live shows with the new line-up around last year’s 24 Hours Of Deep Listening festival by Consouling Sounds in Belgium.
We chose the DAFT studios mainly because of the large live room, where we could set up generously in the middle of the room, but also build an intimate playing atmosphere by facing each other in a circle. This spacious recording room with its large windows gave us the perfect setting to perform Hymn For The Formless, Sink As I and Borderline from the upcoming album Lahbryce as live versions.
Playing these songs with lyrical themes of delusion, depersonalisation and trauma in pure daylight on a beautiful autumn afternoon gave a liberating acceptance and meaningfulness to these heavy topics.
Special thanks go to Jeroen Mylle (camera, video edit) and Luuk Schelvis (live sound), who became part of this experience and captured it perfectly, so as to make the experience shareable in the most authentic way.
Now we are gratefully looking forward to our next reunion where we will bring Lahbryce in full length to the Roadburn Festival and hope to share with this live session an extended insight into our upcoming album.”
Evidently, Mäder and his comrades, Marko Neuman (Convocation) and Jukka Rämänen (Dark Buddha Rising), have been on quite the voyage of discovery since we last saw them, and now they’re preparing to take us on quite a trip this Spring.
The album is due to drop in a little over a month, so you should have plenty of time to get acquainted before Roadburn, but these new tracks should more than help you on your way. Lahbryce will be released through Consouling Sounds, and is available to pre-order now. Don’t snooze on this album – upon first listen we knew this kind of hypnotic darkness was worthy of a spot on the main stage at Roadburn; you’ll not be disappointed.