I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me

The first hint at the album's title, I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me, came from a billboard near Newark Liberty International Airport that includes the title and a website address mirroring it, as reported on May 8, 2025.^[14][15]

On May 16, 2025, Lorna Shore released the album's first single, "Oblivion", confirmed the album's title, and announced that it would be released on September 12, 2025.^[16][17] On June 25, 2025, the second single, "Unbreakable", was released.^[18] On August 14, 2025, the third single, "Prison of Flesh", was released.^[19] On the same day as the album's release, Lorna Shore released a new music video for the song, "Glenwood".^[20]

In conjunction with the album, the band embarked on a North American tour in September and October 2025, with support by The Black Dahlia Murder, Shadow of Intent, and PeelingFlesh.^[7] The band then embarked on a European tour in January and February 2026, with support by Whitechapel, Shadow of Intent, and Humanity's Last Breath.^[21][22]

The album's title comes from a lyric in the third single and opening track, "Prison of Flesh".^[23] Vocalist Will Ramos explained that he wrote the song "about my family's history with dementia. The idea that eventually this void will consume me or my family and the fear of trying to run away from something that'll inevitably just consume everything that you have or know."^[24]

The lyrics for "Oblivion" were written against "the continued destruction of our planet and its resources, with little regard for longterm sustainability of the ecosystem or ourselves as a species."^[25] Ramos stated, "I imagined a post-apocalyptic world in the (hopefully distant) future. A world where we have sown the seeds of our own destruction. The idea that we wished for better, hoped we were doing something that would help save us in this dying world, only to end up accelerating its inevitable destruction. This brings up the question: What is right? Do we even know what we’re doing? What have we done to try and actually change anything? Are we watering the earth or just feeding a constantly growing fire?"^[26][27]

Contrary to the first two songs' dark lyrical themes, "Unbreakable" has a brighter, more motivational lyrical message, with "the idea that the world could always try to take us down and put us into the dirt, whatever you want to call it. But throughout all of this, throughout all the pressure, we get hardened, and we become the best version of ourselves – whether it's individually or as a group. That’s what the song tries to embellish: that feeling that we're all here together, and we're stronger together. Perseverance, perseverance, perseverance, keep malevolent".^[28] "Glenwood" was described by Rock Sound as "a powerful look at [Ramos'] estrangement from his father, a song that he hopes will resonate with others in similar circumstances."^[29]