WELCOME DEATH! EPICURUS (post-rock/shoegaze) explores the void as "Midnight Docks"

Guiding us to the point where one day ends and another begins, shoegaze inflected alternative/post-rockers WELCOME DEATH! EPICURUS, on their debut album Midnight Docks, pulls us through a life cast to a dim, frozen void, detached from all things, suddenly erupting over the yawing, existential chasm of absolute freedom. Armed with the knowledge that one can literally do anything and is bound by nothing, and how utterly paralyzing such a realization can be…. Midnight Docks grapples with not only that paralysis, but also the despair that even things we once sought as a respite from the churning, bludgeoning trials of existence have ultimately become flattened.... leaving us numb and lifeless, to flail and to thrash for answers until the void, insatiable, unstoppable, returns in full force.

WELCOME DEATH! EPICURUS:

Ian Fornshell - vocals, guitar, flute

Liam Walls - bass

Welcome Death! Epicurus is the vehicle through which founding member Ian Fornshell explores broad concepts such as existence, love, death, and the incredible power emotions exert over our lives and overwhelm both our weakest and strongest moments. Ian had been playing music and writing songs for years, but after graduating in philosophy at both college and graduate school, he got serious, decided on a name—itself an homage to his passion for philosophy and attempt to have a cool band name with a philosopher in it—and went to work crafting songs that explored coming to grips with our place in the universe. 

Favoring sparse and simple musical arrangements—don’t let the words fool you, while there’s plenty of more meditative sections, the music often roars and thunders at high volume—that help draw focus to the lyrics and their philosophical themes, while simultaneously playing and singing with a ferocity that commands attention and injects the overall performance with unmatched intensity, Welcome Death! Epicurus, at its core, seeks to create music that blends the sublime and the fervent tangles of existence into a threadbare grasp of understanding…before we are once again swallowed by darkness.