Trivia / Lorna Shore

• Artist Disillusionment: Gary Herrera left because he was sick of touring, sick of music, and generally burned out to the point where he just didn't want to do it anymore ever again. He's still friends with the rest of the lineup that was there when he left, he had just had more than his fill of that life. The story was mostly the same for Connor Deffley, who was also burnt out and had done as much touring as he wanted to by the end.
• Breakthrough Hit: ...And I Return to Nothingness and particularly "To the Hellfire". While Immortal was a big release for them even though they were not able to tour on it, "To the Hellfire" blew up well beyond what anyone could have imagined, along with the whole EP, and when they announced the first shows in support of it, ticket sales were leaps and bounds above what they previously did while headlining (out of the first four shows, the Connecticut date was the only one that didn't sell out, and that is solely because they sold out the Webster Underground and got moved to the 1,200-cap mainroom), with the Atlanta date on their full run pulling almost 1,000 people. By the time Pain Remains was released in 2022, they were one of the biggest bands in extreme metal as a whole, not just deathcore, as their first headlining run in support sold out all but one date before the tour even started, including the 2,160-cap Palladium main room (the largest venue on that run).
• Creator Backlash:
  • Adam De Micco and Austin Archey have both grown to dislike Psalms and currently view it as a haphazardly written, piecemeal collection of riffs and breakdowns that they threw together as fast as possible because they needed an album to tour on. They stopped touching the album live save for "Grimoire" in 2017, and even that song has not been played live in years and is unlikely to ever resurface.
  • They hate their first two EPs and refuse to touch them, and while Maleficium is the first release that they still accept, they stopped playing everything off of it save for "Godmaker" by 2016, and even that song has not been played since mid-2019 and was on its way out well before that point. Austin also said in an Instagram live stream that the band thinks their song "Life of Fear" sucks, and was only played due to the metal cat video.
• Promoted Fanboy: Andrew O'Connor was a longtime fan of the band before he was hired in 2019. The same was also true for Will Ramos, who toured with them back when he was in A Wake in Providence and has publicly reminisced about going from hopping onstage to do a guest vocal spot back in 2016 to being Lorna Shore's vocalist. This was one of the biggest factors in why Will got the job; Adam and Austin were contacted by tons of vocalists who just wanted to do the touring, only knew the big songs, and were clearly motivated by clout, whereas Ramos was the one who knew their entire catalog back to front, kept learning new songs, and was very open about his desire to be in the band. After dealing with CJ for almost two years, they had zero desire to have another person looking to use them to further their own ends, and Will's drive, hunger, and love for the band was genuine.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: CJ McCreery was kicked out in December 2019 after his then-girlfriend contacted the band and presented evidence of CJ's abusive behavior and threatened to go public with the information. After he was ejected, another ex of his dug up several old tweets of her own (that had flown under the radar at the time) where she accused CJ of a laundry list of abuses (including screencaps) without naming him at the time, then posted graphic accounts of extreme sexual and emotional abuse and serial infidelity, in addition to screencaps of texts where he made overtly misogynistic and racist comments, while also compiling messages from other women who had had similar experiences with CJ. Though considering CJ's behavior even within the band, he probably would've gotten fired regardless; the allegations simply made it happen faster.
• Screwed by the Network: Immortal probably would have been out much sooner if Outerloop hadn't dicked them around and played games with them to the point that they had to break their contract with the label. Outerloop was so slow to get much of anything done that even "This Is Hell", which had been written and recorded and had a video filmed before CJ was even formally announced as the new vocalist, had a two-month gap between CJ's first tour with the band and its release, despite their intention to have it drop in the summer of 2018 when they started the tour.
• Star-Making Role: While Will Ramos was somewhat known on social media for his vocal covers and was respected for his work in A Wake in Providence, he was never really much of a name outside of the deathcore underground or the Northeast in general, and even his first appearance with Lorna Shore in 2020 didn't raise his profile all that much due to the tour's early cancellation and Ramos' own hazy status within the lineup. Come 2021, and "To the Hellfire" and the year's live appearances almost singlehandedly catapulted Ramos into being one of the most famous and recognizable deathcore vocalists, with a status approaching that of Mitch Lucker, Eddie Hermida, Phil Bozeman, CJ McMahon, Adam Warren, and Alex "Terrible" Shikolai.
• Troubled Production: Immortal, mostly due to Outerloop's above-mentioned fuckery. As per the band, the period of time between mid-2018 and mid-2019 was the most trying time in the band's history, and there were times where it was frankly a miracle that they didn't go on hiatus or break up. By the time they were able to finally get the album recorded, most of it had been written for six months or more, two tracks had already been recorded, mixed, and mastered in completely separate sessions with a different lineup (as Connor Deffley was still in the band at the time), and they had broken their contract with Outerloop and didn't have a label at the time of recording. It didn't end there, as CJ McCreery was fired in December of 2019 for reasons stated above, forcing the band to scramble to figure out how to handle a finished album with his vocals and lyrics on it that was just over a month away from being released. While the band eventually decided to release the album as is on its original scheduled release date, Austin Archey liked multiple tweets suggesting that they rerecord the album with a new vocalist, which suggests that that may still be on the table for the future. He later went on to state in a podcast that they were going to release an instrumental version (which indeed came out the following year) and also insinuated that an Updated Re-release with new vocal tracks was coming at some point in the future.