RALPH WALDO EMERSON once wrote, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
This is the central idea behind the latest outing from Dutch voyagers Dool. Both sonically and thematically, The Shape Of Fluidity is a journey of defiance: a relentless pursuit of identity in the face of a society that demands conformity.
Fronted by vocalist Raven van Dorst, whose own experiences transcending gender binaries inform these themes, Dool’s latest represents a massive levelling up from 2020’s Here they unspool a deeply affecting journey, using prog, postmetal, doom and other elements to question, to probe and to peer into the heart of the human condition. Revving the guitars up to full force, the album fuses classic metal riffs with theand opener Dool gradually layer pulsating riffs and kaleidoscopic melodies into surging prog tempos on and
