The Keening
The Keening is the solo project of Rebecca Vernon, who spent thirteen years leading Salt Lake City doom metal band SubRosa — touring with Sleep, Boris, and Cult of Luna — before relocating to Portland, Oregon, and launching this project in 2018 after SubRosa's dissolution. Vernon's debut under the name, Little Bird, is a collection of gothic folk murder ballads and dark Americana dirges recorded with producer Billy Anderson (Melvins, High on Fire), drawing on the Celtic tradition of keening — ritualized mourning — as both a sonic and conceptual framework. The album appeared at number 10 on Decibel Magazine's year-end Top 40 list, establishing Vernon as a significant voice in dark folk.
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