Cleric has released a song called “Lunger”, which will be a part of the upcoming album Retrocausal. This follows the band’s release of “Ifrit”.

The song adds on to the concept of the upcoming album. The concept that Cleric vocalist/keyboardist Nick Shellenberger explains is that “Lyrically, Retrocausal opens a window into a bleak sci-fi landscape plagued by environmental fallout, in which corrupt governments send their citizens to die, and centers around one submarine crew that learns of their intended fate and chooses to pursue the beyond, despite the terrors that await. Told from different perspectives throughout the record, it’s a story of hope, fear, uncertainty, and constant struggle in the face of failure and death, and in search of something that may never be.”

The song starts with the intense repetition of drums and later electric guitar beats while the vocals have a screaming tone to the lyrics. In the middle of the song, the intense drums and guitar beats fade out and a mysterious and calming beat is played with light drumming and other instruments. The song picks back up with how it began. The song can be heard below.