Listen To The Beautiful Darkness That Resides Within Hermine From San Francisco’s Octavian Winters

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Listen To The Beautiful Darkness That Resides Within Hermine From San Francisco’s Octavian Winters

13/8/2025

Octavian Winters
Hermine
San Francisco

The legendary post-punk dreamweavers Octavian Winters return, complete with gothic enchantment, to present their latest offering. Hermine takes the band into the realms of heavy metal; singer Ria Aursjoen has said she enjoyed writing the song by delving into her fast and loud roots. The music was recorded, produced, and mastered at 13 Studio by William Faith, known for work with so many bands including Christian Death, Faith & The Muse, plus The Bellwether Syndicate. Since the phenomenal debut EP, 2023’s The Line Or Curve, extra-dimensional philosophy always feels like a reason to compose, and the band are giving listeners exactly what they’re looking for. A semblance of talents from scenes stretching from Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, and Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Octavian Winters realise the reality that shimmers in the dark.

It roars into being with a fire that melts away any form of ice. The riffs hammer in with ample bass that punches down the rhythm alongside searing drums that snap and bump with push and pull. The music shifts to make room for the first verse, Ria Aursjoen delivers with her melted chocolate style voice, it pours across the bars in shiny and introspective lines of dark and sweet layers. The gunfire style rhythms keep penetrating the amalgam of reverb and vocal harmony, guitars rage within the hearth and push their heat far into the crevices of the mind. A pure gothic feel decorates something much harder and with a sense of primal brutality, it’s Hermine.

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