From the mind of Nemo Lockeheart, a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has worn many names before this current incarnation, “Eulogy For Our Dying Stars” arrives as both a culmination and a rebirth. What began ten years ago as a distant concept has now fully formed into a sprawling, avant-garde soundscape. A fusion of progressive metal, art pop, and the ethereal depths of darkwave.
Lockeheart’s music has always existed outside the familiar boundaries of genre or expectation. Neither chained to black metal’s frostbitten fury nor to the ritualistic chaos of death metal, Lockeheart instead thrives in perpetual transformation. Bending, dissolving, and reassembling across celestial forms and art genres. In “Eulogy For Our Dying Stars,” this fluid identity takes on new gravity. Each track pulses with the tension between destruction and creation, reflecting the trauma, growth, and introspection that define its author.
This is not an album for passive listening. It’s a conceptual voyage through the cosmos and the self, where melodies shimmer like dying constellations, and lyrics mourn not just the dead, but the living who have surrendered their light.
As the House of Ygra release states, this work stands as a metaphor for “mourning the people who are alive yet have chosen death in their hearts.” In Lockeheart’s universe, freedom is not found in escape, but in confrontation — to look inward and carve out the darkness that festers within.
Lockeheart’s collaborators help breathe life into this vast emotional terrain. The haunting guest vocals of ARINA on “Where The Scars” lend ethereal contrast to Lockeheart’s own voice, while Peter Voronov’s violin weaves through the chaos with fragile elegance. Dara Darcy and Linnéa Janeman add ghostly harmonies that shimmer and fade like cosmic echoes. The album was mastered by David Brauer, bringing depth and clarity to Lockeheart’s intricate sonic world.
Visually, too, the album is deeply personal — its artwork designed by Lockeheart, with additional designs by Imperial Cult, completing the cycle of total artistic authorship.
After years of metamorphosis from Lunar Haze to Elcrost and now Lockeheart, this project stands as one of Hanoi’s most compelling and undefinable sonic identities, embodying House of Ygra’s spirit of artistic extremity and evolution.
“Eulogy For Our Dying Stars” is out now on all streaming platforms. Brace yourself for a journey to the edge of creation, and perhaps, back to yourself.
