Swallow The Sun - Debut Video For New Single
Good news for Swallow The Sun fans. The Finnish melancholy death/doom metal masters are releasing a standalone 14-minutes epic single track called "Lumina Aurea" along with a 12" EP vinyl version. Furthermore, the new album When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light is going to be released on January 25th, 2019 via Century Media Records. Enjoy the 14-minute new video for the single below.
According to Juha Raivio, "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!
"'Lumina Aurea' is a song I would never want to write in my life. It is an open, bleeding black wound from the last two and half years of my life. But I had to write it out. I could not back down from it. The way I wrote and recorded 'Lumina Aurea' was so rough emotionally and physically that I think I will never talk about it public. I know this road will go on forever as a part of me, but I have also made a peace with it?that I will never have peace with it. And that the life and the journey here must still go on for a while for those of us remaining. I knew that if I would go any deeper on that road with the album as I did with 'Lumina Aurea,' the path would not end well. So, I quickly realized that instead I will write an album that will manifest loud and clear that after all, 'Love is always stronger than death.' I wanted to find that angle for When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light. This album is like a weapon for myself. A burning light, a burning torch. Victorious and proud." - Juha Raivio
"The idea for this short-film like music video came from Juha Raivio and we tweaked the idea a bit to make the story fit into the beautiful landscapes we were going to film it in. The video has been filmed in several locations around Northern Finland and Lapland. We would like to leave the meaning of the story a bit open and to let everyone watching it to make their own conclusions and let their imagination flow. As obvious, things such as grief, torment and even love are present through the video. This is pretty much all we would like to open about it. Some kind of mysticism there definitely is. It was a great pleasure for us to get work with this project, since the song has such a meaning for Juha." - Vesa Ranta.
According to Juha Raivio, "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!
"'Lumina Aurea' is a song I would never want to write in my life. It is an open, bleeding black wound from the last two and half years of my life. But I had to write it out. I could not back down from it. The way I wrote and recorded 'Lumina Aurea' was so rough emotionally and physically that I think I will never talk about it public. I know this road will go on forever as a part of me, but I have also made a peace with it?that I will never have peace with it. And that the life and the journey here must still go on for a while for those of us remaining. I knew that if I would go any deeper on that road with the album as I did with 'Lumina Aurea,' the path would not end well. So, I quickly realized that instead I will write an album that will manifest loud and clear that after all, 'Love is always stronger than death.' I wanted to find that angle for When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light. This album is like a weapon for myself. A burning light, a burning torch. Victorious and proud." - Juha Raivio
"The idea for this short-film like music video came from Juha Raivio and we tweaked the idea a bit to make the story fit into the beautiful landscapes we were going to film it in. The video has been filmed in several locations around Northern Finland and Lapland. We would like to leave the meaning of the story a bit open and to let everyone watching it to make their own conclusions and let their imagination flow. As obvious, things such as grief, torment and even love are present through the video. This is pretty much all we would like to open about it. Some kind of mysticism there definitely is. It was a great pleasure for us to get work with this project, since the song has such a meaning for Juha." - Vesa Ranta.
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| The Melting Snow Posts: 675  |
This band never runs out of ideas. I wasn't expecting a piece of such calm melancholy. It's different from their usual stuff, so some might not like it. It's growing on me with every listen. It is a perfect reflection of pain and sorrow
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62030  |
Video is home feeling, winter time, but music is shit, lame boring as dunno. One wise dutcham said swallow the cum once
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| annodomini Posts: 784  |
One if the best thing i heard in years. Amazing amazing stuff! The atmosmphere ir mesmerizing.
---- the riddle wants to be...
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| Lord Slothrop Posts: 412  |
Starting with Songs from the North, I've been getting into this band piecemeal. Slowly, over the last year or so, they've continued to grow on me and this track cements my fondness for the band.
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| Reaper_Redeemer Posts: 746  |
Reminds me a bit of Vesa Ranta's artworks in Sentenced albums. He is a very talented artist in visual art too.
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