I give thee:
SWALLOW THE SUN - The Morning Never Came
...and they're on a 'major' label no less.
URL: http://www.swallowthesun.net/releases.php
Finnish death/doom band (demo was released by our friends Firebox), but this, their official debut is out on Olympic Records (aka CM).
I've only listened to it once so far, but it's really good and should appeal to several people here. Anyone heard it already?
Here is a sample of "Under the Waves": http://www.firebox.fi/records/sample/Swallow The Sun - Under The Waves.mp3
In summary, what you're dealing with here is October Tide / early Katatonia type doom, good death vocals, very clean instrumentation (polished production), and LOTS of dark atmosphere accentuated (not drowned out) by ambient synths.
It is very Swedish sounding, if you get my drift. Also, and here's the real puncher....they sound like EVERGREY....!!!
...yeah, yeah, I know I'm krazy....but if you took early Evergrey, slowed them down to a mid-pace death doom stomp, and replaced the vocals with growls, you'd get something similar to this, particularly in atmosphere.
Fans of 'death/doom' and 'dark prog' will like this album. There are occasional clean vocals too which provide the obligatory diversion to monotony.
Oh yeah, the US release has a bonus cover of "Solitude" by Candlemass. Interesting tid bit: This song was originally going to feature Albert Magus of Reverend Bizarre, but the bastard label decided not to use that version, and so it will only ever be released in Europe as a B-side to a 7" EP.
But we always knew labels were gay, so no big surprise. OK go check these guys out, you have my blessing.
SWALLOW THE SUN - The Morning Never Came
...and they're on a 'major' label no less.
URL: http://www.swallowthesun.net/releases.php
Finnish death/doom band (demo was released by our friends Firebox), but this, their official debut is out on Olympic Records (aka CM).
I've only listened to it once so far, but it's really good and should appeal to several people here. Anyone heard it already?
Here is a sample of "Under the Waves": http://www.firebox.fi/records/sample/Swallow The Sun - Under The Waves.mp3
In summary, what you're dealing with here is October Tide / early Katatonia type doom, good death vocals, very clean instrumentation (polished production), and LOTS of dark atmosphere accentuated (not drowned out) by ambient synths.
It is very Swedish sounding, if you get my drift. Also, and here's the real puncher....they sound like EVERGREY....!!!
...yeah, yeah, I know I'm krazy....but if you took early Evergrey, slowed them down to a mid-pace death doom stomp, and replaced the vocals with growls, you'd get something similar to this, particularly in atmosphere.
Fans of 'death/doom' and 'dark prog' will like this album. There are occasional clean vocals too which provide the obligatory diversion to monotony.
Oh yeah, the US release has a bonus cover of "Solitude" by Candlemass. Interesting tid bit: This song was originally going to feature Albert Magus of Reverend Bizarre, but the bastard label decided not to use that version, and so it will only ever be released in Europe as a B-side to a 7" EP.
But we always knew labels were gay, so no big surprise. OK go check these guys out, you have my blessing.
