Swallow The Sun - Hope - guest review
Swallow The Sun - Hope - guest review
Tracklist
01. Hope02. These Hours Of Despair
03. The Justice Of Suffering [feat. Jonas Renkse]
04. Don't Fall Asleep (Horror Pt.2)
05. Too Cold For Tears
06. The Empty Skies
07. No Light, No Hope
08. Doomed To Walk The Earth
09. These Low Lands [Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus cover] [Digipak bonus]
Guest review by
Passenger August 01, 2007
The band gained a solid fan base with their delicate and easily listenable, if extremely cold Doom/Death Metal; that has become the characteristic sound of Swallow The Sun, and they don't abdicate of that. The title gains almost a sarcastic dimension when associated to the music, as the intention to create a dark and gloomy atmosphere remains essential. In general, there aren't many changes since 2005, no drastic changes at least. The songs stretch for many minutes, and their structures are diverse, the music is rich and well produced and there's space for both extremely calm and heavier moments.
However, I don't think we can categorically say we are getting more of the same. The bass work is more subtle. There are a lot more clean vocals. More keyboards. Less songs like "Deadly Nightshade", with riffs dominating. Overall, "Hope" sounds more relaxed and melancholic to me. Take "The Justice Of Suffering": the first verses are typical, but then you get to the chorus and the song suffers a metamorphosis, and becomes as light as Swallow The Sun has ever been. "Hope" may never reach the sheer depressiveness of "Gloom, Beauty And Despair", but it constantly follows the sad and beautiful path of a "Forgive Her", for example.
This band always seemed to want to walk its own path in the genre, certainly without aiming at revolutionizing it, but clearly adding its own personal touch, and that's always a plus, on any kind of music. If you were already following their work closely, "Hope" will not disappoint you. It's accessible, it's diverse, it's an almost one hour long journey through various tempos and emotions. In this reviewer's opinion, it's Swallow The Sun's best work to date. Now, I hope they can keep releasing an album this good every two years. I hope?
Written by Passenger | August 01, 2007
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Very good album in my opinion, though I think that "The Morning Never Came" is on another PLANET! Very good "Don't Fall Asleep"...
---- "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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I would say that this is miserable crap. I listened it twice and i still don't remember anything. crap. The Morning Never Came and even Ghost Of Loss are much better.
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Still choose the first album...spe "Silence of the Womb"...s.th floating in his voice(Mikko ) but,they know where they go & its good to follow their path...
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I think this is one of the best Doom/Death Metal albums of the year. I really enjoy listening to it, although the first 2 albums are good as well. "Don't Fall Asleep" is one of the highlights, IMO.
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Posts: 40071 Written by Infurnace on 23.09.2007 at 17:33 I actually think it is one of the MOST overrated doom/death releases of the year. Soooooo broing, overproduced, almost emo-doom for the masses. Really, I still don't understand the hype about this band.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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I love almost songs in this album, as through my journey being into it until now. Lyric is excellent, beautiful clean vocal, solid grunt  , and melancholy beautiful melody
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Posts: 2798 Written by [user id=41986] on 11.07.2009 at 16:59 Try reading the lyrics
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Great cd. I prefer their 2 first albums though, but this is another fuckingtastic piece of melancholic melodic death/doom at its best. Swallow the Sun fucking rules!!! Stay Metal ,Stay Dark!
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Posts: 2955 Quote: The lack of change is bad news for me... since I did not liked ''Ghosts of loss''. This part of the review kinda made me question my possible likes on this album. But it turn out better than the previous, lots of catchy passages, pretty accessible for non-doom fans. Good enough for me. 
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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Justice of Suffering is one of the greatest songs ever written. I love Jonas Renkse's voice. It's so perfect for this song. It's a beautiful contrast from the amazing growls. So much emotion. I love what these guys are doing, regardless of what you try and classify them as. That doesn't matter. This is good music.
---- Still Life, Still Death
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