God Unknown give two familiar collaborators more room on "Storms Upon Us". The UK/Sweden funeral doom band's single, released on October 31, 2026, follows their debut album, Last Glimpse of Daylight, with a more prominent role for Camilla Tjernberg's vocals and Michael Lang's bass. Both had already contributed to that album, vocalist Daniel Tjernberg explains; the new recording gave them the freedom to decide what they would bring to the song.
That freedom extends to the title's collective pronoun. Daniel leaves the identity of "us" open to the listener, suggesting a family or a group of people bound by shared experience. Below, he discusses his bandmates' contributions and the people a listener might find within the song, before giving our question about its running time a remarkably economical answer.
Three questions
(1) Doomnation Radio: Where in "Storms Upon Us" can we hear something one of the new members brought to the band? What did that passage sound like before their idea came in?
Daniel Tjernberg: Although both Camilla and Michael were involved, to varying degrees, in our first album, they take more of a center stage on our new single. Camilla's vocals cast a shimmering quality over the track, imbuing it with a specific atmosphere, while Michael contributes a sense of weight and stability through his bass playing. What they would do was a blank slate. They were free to fully utilize their skills to put their personal stamp on the song.
(2) DR: Who did you picture when you wrote the word "us" in "Storms Upon Us"?
Tjernberg: Ultimately, it is a matter of total freedom of interpretation, where each person is free to arrive at their own answer. One might think of it as a collective of like-minded individuals - like a family. You can relate it to yourself, your own life, and the people close to you.
(3) DR: When you were arranging it, which passage took the most discussion about how long to let it run?
Tjernberg: There were no discussions about it really, it just happened.
Listen to God Unknown's "Storms Upon Us".
