“I love writing songs. I love being in the studio. I love touring. That stuff’s the greatest. All the rest of it is literally the worst thing you could experience”: Why an underground hero is calling time on one of 21st-century metal's greatest bands

Nate Garrett of Spirit Adrift is pictured with his Les Paul.

Nate Garrett’s decision to fly Spirit Adrift into the sun was not taken lightly. The venerable US doom metal band has been his passion project for more than a decade.

Formed in 2015, initially a solo endeavour before expanding to a full band, Spirit Adrift was Nate Garrett – and vice versa. They were inseparable. But the end has arrived, and it has been coming.