★★★★★
"...on the whole 'Songs From The North' is more than worth the price of admission and sees a band firing on all cylinders for a staggering length of time." Hopefully you didn't come into "Songs Of The North" expecting to have a good time, as Swallow The Sun offers up almost three hours of depressing and gloomy death/doom that should be kept far away from anyone with a suicidal streak...
- www.metalunderground.com
2016-01-08
★★★★★
If there was to be an award for the most ambitious offering of the year, there is little doubt that would be a finalist. It is, after all, a LP that encompasses a sizeable breadth of melancholic tunes. It is forgivable to be a bit apprehensive about an album that aims to do three totally different things while making each piece good enough to be befitting of the decision to smash them together and release it all at once, but given the talent Swallow the Sun possess there is certainly the...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2015-11-08
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare A Little Bit Deathy, A Little Bit Teary, And A Lot Of Success Of the many merits of heavy metal, one of the greatest is the potential for unusual genre combinations. Metal is such a rich and diverse music, with so many subgenres, that it almost begs to be toyed with. Often, the results are disastrous. Occasionally, however, a band gets it very, very right...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-09-10
★★★★★
"While the album may not be what fans were expecting, the experimentation and mixing of styles result in a unique blend of familiar and unknown metal worth hearing." Despite blending differing styles, the Finnish death/doom sound has become a recognizable force in its own right, with several bands putting forth a similar tone to nearly create yet another sub-genre...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-08-20
★★★★★
Sound: As some of you might know, Swallow The Sun is known for its gloomy, melodic doom metal. During the years the band has took some steps to a little softer direction. This album is (in my opinion) a bit softer than earlier albums of the band and this album has even less 'fast parts' than the album "New Moon" has (I'm not saying that I don't like it). The lyrics on the other hand are still as dark and gloomy as ever...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-30
★★★★★
Summary: An album that somehow gives us very little with so much Executing a concept album is not so much a science as it is an art - there is no formula for creating the perfect piece. As such, there is a certain finesse required to turn an idea into music, especially if you wish to extend that idea to cover an entire album...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Summary: An album that somehow gives us very little with so much Executing a concept album is not so much a science as it is an art - there is no formula for creating the perfect piece. As such, there is a certain finesse required to turn an idea into music, especially if you wish to extend that idea to cover an entire album...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-02-09
★★★★★
The term lush barely covers the immersive soundscapes Swallow The Sun manage to conjure up and on Emerald Forest And The Blackbird, the Finnish sextet only build upon their burgeoning renown for creating vast pools of beautiful despair into which the listener will blissfully sink...
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2012-02-06
★★★★★
Summary: An album that somehow gives us very little with so much Executing a concept album is not so much a science as it is an art - there is no formula for creating the perfect piece. As such, there is a certain finesse required to turn an idea into music, especially if you wish to extend that idea to cover an entire album...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-02-06