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When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light

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発売日 2019年01月25日
国内/輸入 輸入(ヨーロッパ盤)
レーベルCentury Media
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 19075917622
SKU 190759176221

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Some albums are born from necessity rather than desire. When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light is one. After Swallow the Sun issued their triple-length magnum opus Songs from the North I, II & III in 2015, tragedy struck. Guitarist/composer Juha Raivio lost his life partner, the poet and vocalist Aleah Stanbridge, to cancer at the end of 2016. She and Raivio had formed the band Trees of Eternity but she passed before their debut was completed. He finished and released the album then went into seclusion. Upon returning, he formed the band Hallatar, composing songs from lyrics in her journals. They released No Stars Upon the Bridge in 2017. But Raivio also channeled his grief into this extended reflection on loss, sadness, heartbreak, and transformation for STS; he penned its nine songs in three weeks. When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light's title is drawn from a Stanbridge lyric. Its songs are more melodic than anything in STS's catalog. Instead of bone-crushing doom-death metal, they deliver atmospheric post-metal undergirded by gothic rock with shards of black metal and doom. The title-track opener eases the listener into the darkness with the sound of roaring wind, ritualistic drums, and a processional modal melody. Its swirl is elucidated by strummed acoustic guitars, languid keyboards, and vocalist Mikko Kotamaki at his most soothing. On the refrain his voice breaks free: rage and confusion consume his delivery. "The Crimson Crown" is arresting for its profound melancholy, guided by Jaani Peuhu's church organ, a string quartet, synth, and blurry guitars as Kotamaki intones "...And I bow before the moon and pray to the skies/When mist falls on your garden/Bless your temple of the star...." The rippling emotion is all encompassing. "Firelights" frames the shadows with a huge, mournful chorus juxtaposed against a visceral, black metal break. "Stone Wings" spends its first third flowing along instrumental paths paved by early Cure before exploding into a collision of confused anger and hopelessness, as doomy, symphonic metal and gothic rock frame its margins. "Clouds on Your Side" utilizes a jazz vamp played on a Wurlitzer and lo-fi drumming to introduce ethereal, fingerpicked guitars that eventually ratchet into a tsunami of noise before winding back down toward stillness. "Here on the Black Earth" is mesmerizing, haunted, its ambient sonics outline a folk melody coupled with a crashing refrain and blackened breakdown that push it to the breaking point -- though gorgeous strings claim the body and whisper it out. Closer "Never Left" is devastating. Its heartbreak flows like rivers of tears, adorned by neo-classical strings in the foreground. They accent a hummable melody harmonized by Kotamaki and Peuhu. When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light is an album one cannot fully appreciate in one listen. Its many degrees of melancholy and sadness are not expressed for their own sake, but as the underside of the ravaged beauty that can only emerge in the wake of unspeakable loss and evolve as transcendence. ~ Thom Jurek

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    1. 1.
      When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
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      Crimson Crown, The
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      Firelights
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      Upon The Water
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      Stone Wings
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      Clouds On Your Side
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      Here On The Black Earth
    8. 8.
      Never Left

作品の情報

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アーティスト： Swallow The Sun

オリジナル発売日：2019年

商品の紹介

フィンランドのデス/ドゥームメタル・アクト=Swallow TheSun(スワロウ・ザ・サン)の新作。愛するパートナーを失った悲しみを乗り越えるために制作された、バンド史上最もパーソナルな7作目。
"人生の美しさと死の闇" フィンランドのデス/ドゥームメタル・アクトSwallow The SunのソングライターJuha Raivioは、それとは逆の世界を新作で表現している。今作『When A Shadow isForced into the Light』が写しだすのは、"人生の闇、死の美しさ"だ。Swallow The Sunは2000年に結成以降、コンスタントに作品を発表し、Firebox Records～Spinefarmとレーベルを渡り歩き、2015年に発売された3枚組の大作『Songs from the North I, II& III』よりCentury Media Recordsとの契約を果たした6人組だ。
フィンランド国内ではセカンドアルバム以降全ての作品をアルバムチャートTOP10圏内に送り込むなど、高い知名度を誇るバンドである。約3年ぶりとなる7作目『When A Shadow is Forced into the Light』の制作には、JuhaRaivio のパートナーであり2016年に癌のためこの世を去ったシンガー・ソングライター、AleahStanbridgeの存在が大きく影響している。「この作品の全ての言葉と音はAleah のために書かれたんだ。『When A Shadow is Forced into the Light』(影を照らす光)は彼女の言葉であり、彼女の死に対する悲しみという影から自分を立ち直らせるための言葉でもあるんだ。」(アルバム・タイトルは、Aleahが在籍していたTrees of Eternityの楽曲「Broken Mirror」の歌詞からとられている。)Juhaは2年半もの間、森の中で世捨て人のような生活を送った後、この作品を完成させるために全てを捧げた。深い悲しみ、そして彼女の次なる旅の安全を祈りながら、彼はわずか3週間でアルバムに収めるための楽曲を書き上げた。8篇の叙事詩からなる今作には、バンドのシグネチャー・サウンドである美しさと闇、そして抗いようのないメランコリックに包まれた世界が描かれている。バンド史上最もパーソナルな作品は、JuhaとAleahについてのあまりにも悲しい物語である。そしてJuhaに音楽を続けていくことを決意させ、愛は死を超越することを私たちに教えてくれる。アルバムからの先行シングルとなる14分にも及ぶ壮大な楽曲「Lumina Aurea」は、Juha曰く「人生において最も書きたくない曲だった。でも、やらなければいけなかった。辛い2年半の過去をオープンにすることで、自分自身が後戻りできないようにするためにね。肉体的にも精神的にも限界の中で制作をしたから、その過程については公に話すことはしないとおもう」と語る、バンド史上最もダークな1曲となった。
発売・販売元 提供資料（2018/12/14）

Some albums are born from necessity rather than desire. When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light is one. After Swallow the Sun issued their triple-length magnum opus Songs from the North I, II & III in 2015, tragedy struck. Guitarist/composer Juha Raivio lost his life partner, the poet and vocalist Aleah Stanbridge, to cancer at the end of 2016. She and Raivio had formed the band Trees of Eternity but she passed before their debut was completed. He finished and released the album then went into seclusion. Upon returning, he formed the band Hallatar, composing songs from lyrics in her journals. They released No Stars Upon the Bridge in 2017. But Raivio also channeled his grief into this extended reflection on loss, sadness, heartbreak, and transformation for STS; he penned its nine songs in three weeks.
When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light's title is drawn from a Stanbridge lyric. Its songs are more melodic than anything in STS's catalog. Instead of bone-crushing doom-death metal, they deliver atmospheric post-metal undergirded by gothic rock with shards of black metal and doom. The title-track opener eases the listener into the darkness with the sound of roaring wind, ritualistic drums, and a processional modal melody. Its swirl is elucidated by strummed acoustic guitars, languid keyboards, and vocalist Mikko Kotamaki at his most soothing. On the refrain his voice breaks free: rage and confusion consume his delivery. "The Crimson Crown" is arresting for its profound melancholy, guided by Jaani Peuhu's church organ, a string quartet, synth, and blurry guitars as Kotamaki intones "...And I bow before the moon and pray to the skies/When mist falls on your garden/Bless your temple of the star...." The rippling emotion is all encompassing. "Firelights" frames the shadows with a huge, mournful chorus juxtaposed against a visceral, black metal break. "Stone Wings" spends its first third flowing along instrumental paths paved by early Cure before exploding into a collision of confused anger and hopelessness, as doomy, symphonic metal and gothic rock frame its margins. "Clouds on Your Side" utilizes a jazz vamp played on a Wurlitzer and lo-fi drumming to introduce ethereal, fingerpicked guitars that eventually ratchet into a tsunami of noise before winding back down toward stillness. "Here on the Black Earth" is mesmerizing, haunted, its ambient sonics outline a folk melody coupled with a crashing refrain and blackened breakdown that push it to the breaking point -- though gorgeous strings claim the body and whisper it out. Closer "Never Left" is devastating. Its heartbreak flows like rivers of tears, adorned by neo-classical strings in the foreground. They accent a hummable melody harmonized by Kotamaki and Peuhu. When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light is an album one cannot fully appreciate in one listen. Its many degrees of melancholy and sadness are not expressed for their own sake, but as the underside of the ravaged beauty that can only emerge in the wake of unspeakable loss and evolve as transcendence. ~ Thom Jurek|
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