Funeral Sutra was the project where our lead guitar and bass pushed their earlier work into a colder frame. What began in Black Line Fever as forward motion and strain turned here into restraint, repetition, and structural discipline. Funeral Sutra moved closer to ritual black metal in intent, but its core was not about style. It was about control. The habits formed in this period would become a permanent part of how they write inside Worship Pain.
Funeral Sutra
From Urgency to Discipline
In Funeral Sutra, speed gave way to pressure held over time. The two shifted from fractured motion to strict shapes that stayed fixed while tension built around them. Songs turned to repeated forms that felt more like structures than narratives. This was the first time they treated limitation as a tool. What had been an early project driven by urgency became a study in how little is needed to create weight.
Ritual Black Metal Without Excess
Funeral Sutra pulled from black metal but refused most of its excess. The focus stayed on clear lines, steady patterns, and a narrow emotional temperature. Guitars held cold harmonic frames. Bass locked the ground and rarely left it. The surface seemed simple, but the strain sat underneath. This approach taught them how to let repetition carry force and how to avoid hiding weak ideas behind ornament. That discipline is still present in Worship Pain.
The project developed inside the same physical conditions that mark the rest of our history. Small rehearsal spaces. Thick volume compressed into thin air. In that environment, silence was not empty. It felt like something cut out of the sound. Funeral Sutra treated that silence as part of the structure. The two learned how to write with negative space, letting gaps and held moments shape impact. That understanding of space is a direct link into the way Worship Pain handles breaks and transitions.
Environment, Silence, and Shape
The Line From Funeral Sutra to Worship Pain
Funeral Sutra sits between the post-hardcore roots of Black Line Fever and the controlled force of Worship Pain. It is the point where their method turned inward, where motion became discipline and ritual took the place of constant movement. The structural habits they formed here never left. In Worship Pain, their work still carries the same cold focus, the same restraint, and the same refusal to waste sound.