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Swallow The Sun - Announce 'Moonflowers' Studio Album


After releasing their first live album last month, Finnish doomsters Swallow The Sun are now back with the new studio album announcement. Their eighth long player is entitled Moonflowers and will be released on November 19th, 2021 through Century Media. You can also listen to the first new song, called ''Moonflowers Bloom In Misery''.

Along with some of the album formats, there will also come a full bonus album featuring very special instrumental versions of all the regular album tracks. This instrumental album has been composed for strings and recorded at Sipoo Church in Finland. The strings were performed by the group called "Trio NOX" from Finland. Starting today, all these instrumental songs will be launched as animated videos, which were created by Dronicon Films. One by one every week, leading up to the first single release of the main album.





Swallow The Sun mastermind Juha Raivio comments: "I know well that I should not say this, but I deeply hate this album. I hate where it takes me, how it makes me feel and what it stands for me personally. I wish it wouldn't. But for all its honesty I got no option than also love it. That is all that matters to me with the music anyway and it doesn't matter how it makes me feel, as long as it does. For me this album is like a mirror of a deep self-disappointment. Even I still want to believe that there is and could be more than this in me. But I don't need or want to talk more about it. After all music means so different things to each one of us by how we have walked our own paths, and that is a beautiful thing about music. There is no right or wrong.

"After I had finished writing all the music for this record in the fall of 2020 I started to write these small instrumental versions of the album songs for the violin, viola, cello and piano. Mostly because I was wondering how it would feel like to hear all these songs first as these intimate versions instead of a full band album. It was really beautiful to see and hear these songs come alive in this way and form, recorded live in this big church in Finland. To be able to hear the echoes of this music reflecting from the church walls and feel the very soul of these old wooden instruments played by real people in this sacred place. Something about hearing the strings breathe this fragile beauty into these songs that carry so much pain otherwise. Now looking back, maybe I wrote these versions just for myself to be able to hear and feel at least some kind of a beauty and solace in these songs, maybe?

"I wanted to create the cover art of this album myself this time, so it would stand as brutally honest for me as the music is. So I painted the moon on the Moonflowers cover with my own blood and I decorated it with the flowers I picked up and dried on the spring of 2016. Maybe it isn't the most outstanding looking piece of art ever made in this world, but for me it is everything. I wasn't going to write any new music before I would have moved towards the right direction in my life, but finally all this music just forced itself out of me during the long nights of this hope crushing and neverending lockdown prison. Something grew out from that void eventually and writing these songs made me think a lot about moonflowers that bloom at the darkest hour of the night, so that name felt right to call the album also."


Tracklist as follows:

01. Moonflowers Bloom In Misery
02. Enemy
03. Woven Into Sorrow
04. Keep Your Heart Safe From Me
05. All Hallows' Grieve (Featuring Cammie Gilbert)
06. The Void
07. The Fight Of Your Life
08. This House Has No Home





Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Swallow The Sun
Posted: 03.08.2021 by Bad English


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04.08.2021 - 00:46
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
If this is song what you use to promote mew metal album, then its insult .... bad, bad choice.
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04.08.2021 - 01:34
nikarg

Written by Bad English on 04.08.2021 at 00:46

If this is song what you use to promote mew metal album, then its insult .... bad, bad choice.

Have you read the second paragraph of this news piece that has your name at the bottom?

The song is gorgeous, the sound is magnificent, the cover art is beautiful. I am hyped af.
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04.08.2021 - 01:35
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by nikarg on 04.08.2021 at 01:34

Written by Bad English on 04.08.2021 at 00:46

If this is song what you use to promote mew metal album, then its insult .... bad, bad choice.

Have you read the second paragraph of this news piece that has your name at the bottom?

The song is gorgeous, the sound is magnificent, the cover art is beautiful. I am hyped af.


Yes but still I am disapointed
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04.08.2021 - 01:37
nikarg

Written by Bad English on 04.08.2021 at 01:35

Yes but still I am disapointed

Fair enough.
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04.08.2021 - 01:38
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by nikarg on 04.08.2021 at 01:37

Written by Bad English on 04.08.2021 at 01:35

Yes but still I am disapointed

Fair enough.


To me its well new album should be better song what promote it, as we feel taste its like latest Primordial first song was big let down to me
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04.08.2021 - 06:36
Tf I've just listened to O_o meh song
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04.08.2021 - 07:35
WorpeX
Made of Metal
Sweet! I don't usually like instrumental but I found myself really enjoying its somber notes and thinking about how the metal version would sound.
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04.08.2021 - 12:19
annodomini

The melody sounds amazing, I can see the regular track being very enjoyable.
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04.08.2021 - 14:23
hyper

Kinda miss their old album covers, you lived sorrow, grief and gloom in them. looks like and alternative indie trip hop-ish cover
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04.08.2021 - 14:50
Nejde
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People who don't like this seriously need to widen their musical taste. Such a beautiful piece! That bonus album is gonna be something special for sure.
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04.08.2021 - 16:45
Spacerunner

Very cinematic. But I would prefer to hear metal versions first, so won't follow next instrumentals to keep it fresh.
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06.08.2021 - 20:52
Enemy of Reality
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Loved it. It's a weird choice for single indeed, but i like when bands take a risk. The song is gorgeous no matter the genre.
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08.08.2021 - 13:32
Obsidiann6

Liked the song, but not a big fan of the artwork. Looks almost like Alcest Kodama. Where did the doom go?
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10.08.2021 - 11:34
antvre

Lovely cover art
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12.08.2021 - 01:04
Ag1975

After 7 studio albums, I'm glad they tried something different and promote his new music with this beautiful piece of art!
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15.08.2021 - 02:29
Troy Killjoy
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Apparently divisive cover art. For those who think it reeks of indie, I'm inclined to agree -- though I don't necessarily think that it's an inherently bad thing.

I mean Purity Ring's Shrines features similarly styled artwork while remaining dark and depressive despite being an indie pop album at heart.
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