ABOUT Ophelia Sullivan

Ophelia Sullivan (they/them) is a composer, music producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Leipzig, Germany. Their solo project combines the worlds of Post-Progressive, Progressive Metal and Post-Rock with Elements from Doom, Trip Hop and Electronica, informed by Sullivan’s Background in experimental electronic music. Their music is never confined to a single genre - the central idea is juxtaposing and merging various stylistic influences. Contrast is at the heart of SULLIVAN'S SOUND – light and dark, hard and soft, restless and hypnotic.	Photo Credit: smeelslikequeerspirit
Cover Art for "Disposable Identity"	TheIR 2023 debut album "Disposable Identity" is the culmination of eight years of work. First drafts of some of the songs were already written in 2014/2015, continuously revisited and revised over the years, but it took until 2021 for Ophelia to begin the actual production process. They collaborated with a long list of talented guest instrumentalists and recorded string arrangements with a small orchestra as well as with a string quartet. The sound brings to mind Steven Wilson and Chelsea Wolfe just as much as it draws from Björk and Portishead. Lyrically, it is an extremely personal journey through Ophelia Sullivan's biography and deals with themes of mental health, otherness, sexuality and vulnerability through a decidedly queer lense. "Disposable Identity" was released 30 October 2023 via Bandcamp and streaming platforms.
Their new album THe hunger, centering a heavier, more organic sound, will be released 12 February 2027 on vinyl, cd and digitally via Moment of Collapse Records. Post-Progressive, Progressive Metal, Post-Rock, and Trip-Hop merge into a unique sound that thrives on the juxtaposition between crushing heaviness and fragile intimacy. At the heart of the album lies the tension between the longing for permeability, even to the point of self-dissolution, and the longing to solidify the contours of the self. The desire for encounter and contact contains an element of metaphorical violence — the desire to be broken open, to crack the facade, to split open the surface in order to reach some imagined core. Rather than resisting this force, sullivan embraces it and names it the hunger. We have to lose ourselves to find ourselves. Again and again. The liberatory power of queer joy will guide your way.	THE HUNGER - Cover Art by Marie-Luise Thurm
Photo Credit: Van Kirsch - The Progspace	IN their immersive and intimate live shows, Ophelia is accompanied by a band of four live instrumentalists, most of them also queer and non-binary musicians, informing the sound with their different artistic backgrounds and transforming the pieces significantly in comparison to the album versions. for their very first live show ever, Sullivan and their live band opened the main stage of prog festival Euroblast (Essigfabrik, cologne) in 2024 and since have played shows on beautiful stages such as Ms Stubnitz (Hamburg), Werk 2 (Leipzig) and festivals such as Fusion festival in Lärz, Germany, or dutch rock music festival TeRneuzen on Fire.
Ophelia also works as a composer for theater, performance, film, games and other artistic projects, with a particular focus on dance theater in recent years, having created music for productions at renowned institutions such as Staatstheater Mainz, EinTanzHaus Mannheim and berliner festspiele. Ophelia's composition work is generally characterized by indulgent experimentation with contrast, unconventional musical structures, genre subversion and an affinity for combinations of electronic and acoustic sounds and methods. LEARN MORE	Photo Credit: smellslikequeerspirit



some exemplary Press coverage:	Latest interview with Prog Rock Journal album review by the prog mind album review by the progressive subway
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