4. Saint Luven's Lantern (feat. Modaff) - 00:28:48
Everson Poe is a one-person project from Chicago, IL. Maxwell J Shults—along with a plethora of guest vocalists—has been releasing music as Everson Poe for over 10 years. As a queer & genderqueer individual, they incorporate themes of gender identity and mental health into nearly all of their songs, filtered through lenses inspired by various forms of pop culture, or simply their own imaginative storytelling. Though never bothering to be constrained by genre, the majority of Everson Poe’s releases for the last few years have mostly contained elements of black-, doom-, and sludge-metal. Their new album, Monstrous Existence, is their most political and their most personal. Reaching inward, as always, toward their struggles with gender and depression, they have also reached outward to touch on the socio-political issues in dealing with a world that still seems largely unwilling to accept the differences among its people. Mixing elements of ethereal beauty and intense anger, Monstrous Existence further solidifies Everson Poe as a voice that deserves to be heard.
FFO: Thou, Oathbreaker, Amenra, Un, Kowloon Walled City, Mizmor, Vile Creature
Released May 22, 2020
Written, performed, produced, recorded, & mixed by Maxwell J Shults at Hell’s Half Acre Studio, Chicago, Winter 2019-Spring 2020
