Feature: Latter Day Exploits Unveil ‘Going Home’
Latter Day Exploits will release their new EP, Going Home, on Friday, August 14 through The Charon Collective, bringing together four tracks shaped by doom metal, spiritual struggle, political disillusionment, personal experience and the hope of redemption.
Along with the EP announcement, the band has revealed the cover artwork for Going Home, created by Seth Metoyer. The imagery draws inspiration from the biblical story of the Prodigal Son, reflecting the EP’s central themes of return, restoration and the Father’s welcoming grace.
Aaron Wilmot shared some behind the track’s details with Heaven’s Metal, and you check that out below the official EP cover art.
“Through Sleep”: Sleep Paralysis and Spiritual Darkness
That sense of unease runs deepest through “Through Sleep,” a song inspired by Latter Day Exploits’ Aaron Wilmot and his recurring experiences with sleep paralysis.
Wilmot recalls his first episode occurring in his mid-30s while taking an afternoon nap. Fully conscious yet unable to move, he experienced a sensation of falling through darkness, difficulty breathing and an awareness of people speaking nearby while his body remained locked in place. He says he has experienced similar episodes close to twenty times since.
The song channels that unsettling experience into a larger spiritual framework, exploring fear, vulnerability and what Wilmot describes as spiritual oppression while holding onto faith through the darkness.
The track’s visual identity is tied to Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, a fitting reference for a song that dwells in the liminal space between sleep, terror and spiritual struggle. You can see the cover art when it releases in a couple of weeks.
“Anvil of Humanity”: Politics, Power and Disillusionment
“Anvil of Humanity” shifts the EP into considerably more confrontational territory.
The song reflects Wilmot’s deep distrust of American political institutions, partisan allegiance and the machinery of war. His accompanying explanation rejects the familiar red-versus-blue divide and argues that political identity can become another system capable of consuming the individual.
Wilmot describes his own withdrawal from partisan politics and his belief that meaningful social change begins at the personal and spiritual level before moving outward into families, communities and government.
That perspective gives the track its center of gravity. “Anvil of Humanity” becomes a rejection of ideological tribalism, with Wilmot calling for disagreement without dehumanization and placing Christian conversion at the root of genuine reform.
The official lyric video releases on Saturday, August 15, the day after the EP drops. Click on the YouTube video below to set and alert. You don’t want to miss it!
“Going Home”: Redemption at the Center
The EP’s title track brings the record inward. “Going Home” takes its inspiration from Romans 8:22–23 and the biblical image of creation groaning while awaiting redemption. Wilmot connects the song with his own renewed Christian faith over the last several years and describes wrestling with personal struggles while attempting to understand his identity in Christ.
The story of the Prodigal Son becomes the song’s central image: the wandering child returning home and discovering a father already running toward him.
That artwork reinforces the song’s message visually, portraying the moment of return, embrace and restoration at the heart of the parable.
For Wilmot, “home” becomes more than a destination. It represents restoration, redemption and the hope of finally moving beyond the brokenness that defines the present world. His message behind the track remains remarkably simple: however far someone has wandered, the road home remains open.
“Autumnal Fires”: A Tribute to Mourning Beloveth
Latter Day Exploits pays tribute to one of the bands that helped shape its musical language. The EP includes a cover of “Autumnal Fires” by Irish doom metal veterans Mourning Beloveth. Wilmot cites the band as a formative influence, describing his early fascination with their combination of slow, rhythmic heaviness, melancholy and the collision of beauty with ugliness that sits at the heart of great doom metal.
“Autumnal Fires” became his favorite Mourning Beloveth song and eventually the natural choice for Latter Day Exploits to reinterpret. The sprawling track runs roughly twelve minutes and features Patrick of Cloud of Witnesses contributing clean vocals. The track was the first single off of the EP.
Taken together, the four tracks make Going Home feel less like a collection of unrelated songs and more like four stops along the same weather-beaten road. Where nightmares become perseverance. Political frustration becomes a call for personal transformation. Weariness turns toward redemption, and an old doom-metal influence returns as a reminder of where the musical journey began. For Latter Day Exploits, every road eventually points home.
Going Home releases Friday, August 14 through The Charon Collective.
Fans can also visit the band’s merch page for Latter Day Exploits merchandise.
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