Godthrymm formed in Halifax in 2017 around vocalist-guitarist Hamish Glencross and drummer Shaun Taylor-Steels, both veterans of My Dying Bride. On Projections, released May 29, 2026 by Profound Lore Records, the lineup also includes Catherine Glencross on keyboards and vocals, Bob Crolla on bass, and Kris McLaughlin on second guitar. The album completes the Visions Trilogy begun with Reflections (2020) and continued with Distortions (2023).
Hamish Glencross has described the trilogy as a movement from looking back to altering the present and then toward the future. The titles make that movement visible: a reflection returns an image, a distortion alters it, and a projection throws it outward. On Projections, that outward motion becomes audible in the vocal arrangements. Hamish remains the main singer, Catherine leads “Jewels” and “Hope Is Eternal,” and Adie Bailey, Jay Walsh, and Aaron Stainthorpe enter as guests.
“Trenches Deep” begins with the slow, processional pace the band have used throughout the trilogy, then Taylor-Steels pushes the second half into a faster attack. Adie Bailey of English Dogs and Jay Walsh of Xentrix join on vocals. The acceleration matters because it changes the song’s architecture rather than simply decorating its doom frame.
“Truth In My Own” stays closer to that established frame, built around a low, repetitive groove and a vocal line that rides the riff. The larger change arrives on “Jewels” and “Hope Is Eternal,” the two tracks led by Catherine Glencross. Her cleaner delivery shifts the tension away from Hamish’s barked urgency and toward melody held against the same slow guitar scale. The digital bonus “Epilogue” extends that quieter side without carrying the same dramatic force.
“The Sun Never Fell” pulls the album furthest from Godthrymm’s usual vocal shape. Glencross drops into a rougher, drier register that edges toward Alice in Chains while the guitars retain the long-form scale of UK doom. The comparison works at the level of vocal color rather than genre: the song keeps Godthrymm’s proportions while changing the voice placed inside them.
“Endure My Skin” returns directly to the band’s lineage. Aaron Stainthorpe, who left My Dying Bride in 2025, takes the bulk of the guest vocal, reuniting with former My Dying Bride bandmates Glencross and Taylor-Steels. The song begins in the broad, stately mode associated with Candlemass, but Stainthorpe’s presence makes the history inside Godthrymm harder to treat as background. The old UK doom network is audible here as personnel, not simply influence.
Projections is strongest when the expanded lineup changes the structure of a song, as when “Trenches Deep” accelerates or “Jewels” gives Catherine Glencross the center. “Truth In My Own” and parts of the later sequence stay closer to the band’s established epic-doom frame, so the album can feel less cohesive than its predecessors. The unevenness comes from the same decision that makes the record worth examining: after two albums built around a more concentrated identity, Godthrymm finish the trilogy by distributing that identity across more voices. The trilogy ends with projection operating as method, with the band’s center pushed outward through its expanded lineup.
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