Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light (album download)
Swallow the Sun release a new album entitled When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light. The band’s latest music project is packed with 8 tracks and is available for download and streaming. Only one month earlier, on December 21, they will release a standalone 14-minute epic single track called “Lumina Aurea”, both digitally and as a 12-inch EP vinyl version.
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” showcases the group’s ability to maintain its signature sound while expanding upon horizons and diving deeper into the crevasse of doom-death metal. Even though the single and the album are conceptually connected, they are musically completely different. While “Lumina Aurea” — featuring WARDRUNA’s Einar Selvik and THE FORESHADOWING’s Marco I. Benevento — marks the band’s darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” follows a more positive approach and continues in the vein of previous albums — first-rate death-doom in the typical style of SWALLOW THE SUN.
From their first demo in 2003, Swallow The Sun were nailing a mature and emotive strain of melancholic doom-death that they’ve continued honing ever since, reaching a peak on 2015’s Songs From The North Parts I, II and III – an epic, intensive, two-and-a-half hour pine-scented masterwork. Elegant melancholy has always been their MO, but this album’s gloom cannot help but devastate even more utterly in the shadow of such profound loss. Even the acoustic campfire strumming takes on a dejected hue, the moments of hushed delicacy even more crushing than the sluggish descent of power chords.
Swallow the Sun is a Finnish melodic death doom six piece. They create heavily emotional music, eschewing the normal heavy metal aural theatrics for a much more atmospheric sound. It completely wraps you up so that nothing you experience is outside of this music. In some ways, it makes me think of Obsequiae. Both bands create a sense of chamber music as if you’re listening to them perform in a small room in front of a handful of people so that you’re completely surrounded by the music. Swallow the Sun’s sound is much bigger, of course, but the end result is the same.
Tracklist:
1. When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light (07:26)
2. The Crimson Crown (07:56)
3. Firelights (05:40)
4. Upon the Water (06:16)
5. Stone Wings (06:55)
6. Clouds on Your Side (04:46)
7. Here on the Black Earth (05:38)
8. Never Left (07:49)
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