Instrumental black/death combo Haunted Shores return after a seven-year gap with their phenomenal new album, Void (2022). A natural successor to the Viscera EP (2015), Void finds Grammy-nominated guitarists Mark Holcomb and Misha Mansoor (both Periphery) resurrecting the past as a portal into the future. Some of Haunted Shores’ earliest material—tracks like “Immaterial” and “When in Oslo”—has now been reimagined, using Holcomb and Mansoor’s exceptional skill and know-how of today. The pandemic-era tracks—“Hellfire,” “OnlyFangs,” and the introspective title track—represent a new form of ingenuity, free from classification, devoid of rules, where internal pressure is excised, and external forces muted. Haunted Shores’ Void was built in troubling times and wears said scars proudly, but its greater purpose is an egress from all.