Today, Edged Circle Productions announces January 7th, 2022 as the international
release date for a brand-new EP from pan-international death metal
elite Darkened titled Mourn the Dying Light on
7" vinyl format.
While Darkened made a
none-more-auspicious start with the Into the Blackness EP
during the summer of 2019, it was the band's debut album, Kingdom of Decay, where they
literally EXPLODED onto the scene. Proud and pure death metal, no more but
definitely no less, it was not at all surprising that Darkened made an immediate
impact given their lineup on that debut full-length: drummer Andy Whale
(Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower), vocalist Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods /
Demisery), guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet / This Ending) and
Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate / Ordo Inferus), and new bassist Tobias
Cristiansson (Grave / ex-Dismember). Patient and punishing, they proved that
true songwriting stuns and crushes when practiced by masters of the death metal
craft.
Now, as a precursor to a new full-length in 2022, Darkened arrive with the
short & VERY sweet Mourn the Dying Light EP.
More spacious but somehow heavier, the two songs comprising this record show
that this lineup is truly finding their groove - and by "groove," we
most definitely mean those of a tank! Produced, mixed, and mastered by Linus
Nibrant, Mourn the Dying Light maintains
a most powerful aspect - clear and crushing, as expected, but with a surprising
amount of atmosphere which will likely be expanded upon on that forthcoming
second album. Says the band, "This EP continues on from where Kingdom Of Decay ended, and
clearly sets the tone for the upcoming album. Pushing even further into lyrical
darkness, foreboding heaviness, wistful melody, and murderous aggression, Darkened are forging
old-school death metal in a melancholic landscape."
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track
"Black Winter" HERE
at Edged Circle's Bandcamp, where
the record can also be preordered. Cover artwork, courtesy of Juanjo
Castellano Rosado (Unleashed, The Black Dalhia Murder, Gates of Ishtar), and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Darkened (International)'s Mourn the Dying Light
1. Black Winter
2. The Slime Runs Down Your Throat
1. Black Winter
2. The Slime Runs Down Your Throat
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