ORYAD | Progressive Doom Opera

Progressive Doom Opera.

 5/5

"Sacred & Profane is a career defining moment...
and is destined to be one of the outstanding releases of 2023."

Metal, classical, doom, and jazz meet. All with a gothic outlook steeped in ancient ritual. Shredding riffs, hypnotic drums, and soaring vocals. Oryad comes from the Temple of Diana, deep in the woods, with music both heavy and expansive. Join us.

"...immediate, visceral, and incredibly emotional..it is a sonic journey tinged with a deep connection to nature and reality."
-Metal Roos

"SACRED & PROFANE"
25 MAY, 2023

Oryad’s debut full-length album, featuring 10 diverse tracks exploring grief, dreams, and the divine and rebellious feminine.

"...the percussion is somehow both elegant and forceful; the guitar runs tasteful, evocatively syncopated and almost more another voice than what one might expect from a metal band. "
-Queen City Sounds

Buy Cool Merch.

Survey The Sacred Scrolls.

Press Reviews & Interviews

"ORYAD present on "Sacred & Profane" soulful and intelligent songs that go very deep under the skin."
-Metal Division Magazine

"[one of the] things that really impressed me from the beginning [was] the drummer Matt Gotlin-Sheehan, who shows such imaginative and creative rythmic figures: drum dynamics that set a very special touch to the experience of listening to Rossini’s Stabat Mater."
-Heavy Queens

HYMNS OF EXILE & DECAY

Our first EP from 2021, a collection of 6 tracks that began the journey.

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"...the operatic vocals from Moira are out of this world"
-Loud Unity