Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light

NEW VINYL LP ON SONY 2019

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

Finnish death-doomers Swallow the Sun will release a new 14-minute single next month featuring guest appearances from Einar Selvik of Wardruna and The Foreshadowing‘s Marco I. Benevento, so presumably I’ll be posting about them again shortly, but the news that their next full-length, When a Shadow is Forced into the Light, is due out Jan. 25 is particularly welcome. Their last album was early 2016’s multifaceted triple-disc Songs from the North (review here), for which they toured in the States alongside Amorphis — best lineup, why didn’t I go? Oh right, I suck — and while the PR wire promises more of the standard heft-laden downerism, the fact that the album’s title, again, When a Shadow is Forced into the Light, is essentially the opposite of the band’s moniker in terms of the image evoked, says to me maybe some subtle shifts are in store around that central consistency.

Tracklist

Side 1
  1. When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
  2. The Crimson Crown

Side 2
  1. Firelights
  2. Upon the Water

Side 3
  1. Stone Wings
  2. Clouds on Your Side

Side 4
  1. Here on the Black Earth
  2. Never Left