Sable Hills bring Buddhist chants and Darkest Hour’s John Henry to Homura
Sable Hills. Press photo supplied by Arising Empire via Atom Splitter PR.
On “Namu” and “Higanbana,” the voices alongside Sable Hills’ guitars belong to Buddhist monks. The two songs appear on Homura, the Japanese metalcore band’s fourth album, released November 13 through Arising Empire.
The title comes from an old Japanese word for flame. On the title track, Fuki of Unlucky Morpheus joins the band for a song about what survives a fire: the lyrics move from ashes and wounds toward the resolve to start again. “Godforsaken” brings in a different voice, John Henry of Washington, D.C., metal band Darkest Hour.
Homura follows 2024’s Odyssey, the first Sable Hills album Arising Empire released after the band won the Wacken Metal Battle in 2022. The new record puts “Godforsaken” between the two songs featuring monks, bringing those voices together over a three-track stretch.
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