Rampjaar - CD

In 2021, Arc of Triumph returned with their second full-length studio album, Rampjaar (Dutch for ‘disaster year’). The songs were written just before the Covid pandemic, but eerily captured the mood that followed: anxiety, disconnection, and the mental weight of isolation.

With lockdown in full effect, Simon and Rory recorded most of the album remotely, trading files and fragments from their respective home studios. The result was a synth-soaked examination of struggle, mental turmoil and futility, with lyrics drawing inspiration from Hamlet, Moby Dick, the story of Johan de Witt, and a crumbling relationship with nature.