Sam Gabor presents

CELESTIAL CITY

An epic series of musical meditations into the sacred and the human experience, inspired by themes from Genesis through Revelation.

  • Eden

    Freefall

    Eastwind

  • You’ve Lost That Wild Feeling

    Death Of The Singing Beast

    Titan In The Vale

  • Ichor

    When The Birds Stopped Singing

  • Lux In Tenebris

    Arrival Overture

    Resplendence

L I S T E N

I first encountered John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Sunday School. For those unfamiliar, it follows a pilgrim’s journey from the City of Destruction to Celestial City. Written in 1678, it’s an allegory of the spiritual journey, showing how faith and hope can surmount any struggle.

As a kid, I was drawn to the epic. But it felt incomplete. The story seemed to condemn our world as a lost cause, with the only escape being to run toward a magical Celestial City. I don’t believe that’s the nature of our Creator. I believe we’re called to sit with the lost, and to transcend darkness by leaning into our highest ideals that touch the sacred. It’s through this lens we must view the brokenness around us. Only then would we see the wounds within ourselves that we can heal from.

We are flawed creatures. We will never achieve perfection, nor absolute correctness in our ideals. The banners we defend in one generation may fail us in the next.

But our darkness holds light.

As science governs the fabric of our universe, a spiritual element lies woven underneath. And it is upon this foundation our souls reside. It’s the source of our passions, curiosities, love, dreams, and highest ideals unique and individual to us.

Society demands you to fit in. Fight under a banner. Pick a lane. Dream within the boundaries it draws. But our spirituality must not be a receding shoreline washed away by societal norms, pressures, and algorithms.

Our faith must transcend.

After first encountering that story years ago, I’ve always wanted to share my own journey to Celestial City, one rooted in human experience and reality. Not all rosy and shiny, but honest. I believe the divine invites us to share our wounds. It is our sole sacred expectation.

Come as you are.

Through this project I hope to find my voice through music, while making sense of the world around me and understand the nature of the sacred in relation to it. I invite you to join me in this space. What I can offer is absolute honesty in my music and reflections. They are flawed. But it leaves room for transformation and new understanding.

Welcome to Celestial City.

— Sam Gabor

Latest Releases

“Titan In The Vale” Wild horses - Untamed, full of spirit, Roam upon lands with no horizons. We used to live like this, once. Breathing thunder, Lighting our skies with a fire that blazed with a million points of light. Now as you
#EXODUS Track Listings: You’ve Lost That Wild Feeling Death Of The Singing Beast Titan In The Vale Streaming links in bio.
“When The Birds Stopped Singing” That morning came with no chorus, Senses abandoned, Silence filled the lungs. The gods have gone silent. Have you ever seen their tears? Ever heard their ichor strike our dust? A city now laments. And
#Lamentations EP Track Listings: Ichor When The Birds Stopped Singing Links in bio.
I first encountered John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Sunday School. For those unfamiliar, it follows a pilgrim’s journey from the City of Destruction to Celestial City. Written in 1678, it’s an allegory of the spiritual jou
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