11/11/2025
Pre-orders for Dark Sky Burial's (Shane Embury) upcoming album 'The Sacred Neurotic' are now open! To be released on December 12. Available on CD, Solid Orange LP, Flaming Yellow LP (Special edition with screenprinted PVC oversleeve by Le 7e Oeil), and digital formats. Pre-order your copy, and listen to the first single "Cernunnos", by clicking on the links in the comments.
The newest chapter of Dark Sky Burial, marked by the upcoming release of ‘Sacred Neurotic’ is the most collaborative one. As Carl Stokes (Cancer, The Groundhogs, Current 93) notices “Firstly it’s always a joy to work with Shane, he has some sort of perpetual energy, a creative well of great depth that’s seems never to run dry. We have been friends since the mid Eighties, so have developed an intuition between us. When one presents something, Shane instantly can hear what to do. Pure alchemy.”
Inspired by Jungian ideas of the shadow and individuation, the record delves into the conflict between light and darkness within. “What if the neurotic is right? What they see in this world, something monstrous, the monster in all of us!” say Carl and Shane reflecting on the conceptual essence of the album. “A collection of tracks based around the old religions, archetypal patterns and metaphor. The themes of humanity’s constant war against the opposites echoing our struggle to connect the opposites inside our very selves. An anxious, frenetic, sometimes sweet and melodic collection imagined by two old friends with a shared interest in borderless creativity.”
