About SODB
SODB are a black metal project from Dublin formed in 2012. SODB features Ian Lynch of experimental folk group Lankum as well as members of well known Irish metal bands. Drummer J. Mac Con Rí of bands such as Altar Of Plagues, Dread Sovereign, Malthusian, Abaddon Incarnate, bassist Irene Siragusa also of Abaddon Incarnate as well as Wound Upon Wound among others and guitarist Donal Fullam of Molekh, Putrefaction among others.They released one demo record titled Don Seantalamh a Chuid Féin in 2013. Both Lynch and Fullam had been together in an earlier metal band called Dordaid Dam and they used some material from that band as a base for SODB.
Ian Lynch says of the project:
“The original idea was to create a band with a subject matter and imagery overtly based on the ideas and concepts found in Irish mythology and modern folklore, without making it overly cheesy, which is always the risk with these things. My academic background is in Early Irish language and Irish folklore, and it can be quite despairing to see the ways in which this material is mined in popular culture. I felt the need to explore it with a deeper understanding of the underlying motifs and symbolism rather than just replicate the comic book style approach, which I think is all too common in the metal scene. Although the songs are all based on ancient motifs and beliefs, they are all relevant to life in the 21st Century. The demo’s title, ‘Don Seantalamh A Chuid Féin’ (‘To the old earth it’s due’), comes from a line in an Alan Moore story, which concerns a Neolithic boy who fears that ‘old dirt’ wants to take its due, because his mother wasn’t completely buried. Her foot was left sticking up, unburied, and he believes that the earth wants to take his foot instead. This is an idea that is replicated in a story from Irish folklore whereby a river will drown a certain person every year, and if this person manages to escape drowning it will find another way to drown them or drown someone else in their place.
“I was really drawn towards this idea that the earth and the sea had to be appeased at certain times by consuming human life and in the lyrics to the title track this idea is combined with imagery that turns up with regard to negative manifestations of the Sovereignty Goddess, which the appellation Sodb relates to. The song ‘Don Seantalamh…’ itself is framed as an invocation to the goddess encouraging her to come amongst us and take her fill.”
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