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In Mourning to Release “Echoes” a Collection of Early Demos In August

Posted by thrashboy on May 21, 2020 at 23:08 No Responses »

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Sweden’s melodic, progressive death/doom metal band, In Mourning, will release a collection of their early demo recordings titled “Echoes” on August 14 via Agonia Records.

“Echoes” is spanning over the very beginnings of In Mourning, featuring all demos recorded by the band between 2000 and 2004. With 18 tracks clocking in at over two hours, the release is coming exclusively to a high volume cut, triple vinyl box set available in four different color patterns (black, silver, splatter and half’n’half). The cover artwork for “Echoes” was painted by Kristian Wahlin (Bathory, At The Gates, King Diamond). RaDesign prepared the layout.

“Echoes” includes the following demos: “In Mourning” (2000), “Senseless” (2002), “Need” (2003) and” Confessions Of The Black Parasite” (2004).

The band commented: “People have been asking about copies of our old demos every now and then and this is it. Echoes contains our four early, very old school, demos. All packaged into a beautiful triple vinyl box with artwork from our old companion Kristian Wåhlin. So whether you’re into the idea of our demos, if you’re curious about how we sounded between 2000-2004 or just think it would be a cool collectible (which it surely will), go get yourself a copy now. This will most likely only be available this once, no CD, no digital, vinyl only!”

In Mourning – “Garden of Storms”

Posted by John Jackson on November 22, 2019 at 02:51 No Responses »

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In Mourning is back with Garden of Storms, their 5^th album full of the progressive melodic death metal they are known for.

Metal music from Sweden has gotten to the point where just originating from that country means a quality release and bands like In Mourning is why that statement rings true. Now on their fifth album, In Mourning released their first one, Shrouded Divine, in 2008, followed two years later by Monolith. Somewhat surprisingly, the band has had a relatively stable lineup over their greater than 10yr existence, but has managed to go through a couple of drummers prior to Joakim Strandber Nilsson starting in 2018. At one point, Garden of Storms was #8 on Metal Storm’s top 20 albums of 2019 and was a #53 on the Heatseekers top 200 soon after release showing the critical and fan acceptance of the work.

Given that we are talking about progressive, melodic death metal, it should come as no surprised that the seven song album clocks in around 50 minutes in length, so there is definitely a lot to talk about here. “Black Storm” opens up innocently enough with some clean guitar chords, but the calm is short-lived as there are short bursts of the full band coming in with a heavy riff and pounding drums, setting the tone for the song. Tobias Netzell’s deep scream layered into the background is a good touch to the sound, which comes through in a well-mixed blast of noise. The melodic shines through in the main riff of the song as well in the more atmospheric-like moments that also feature Netzell showing some clean vocals to complement the growled death vocals. Being my first introduction to the band, I can’t help but be impressed with the drum work from Joakim Strandberg Nilsson who keeps a simple, slower pounding rhythm when needed but can explode into faster, approaching blast beat rhythms to drive the song along.

In Mourning – “Garden Of Storms” Documentary (Video)

Posted by thrashboy on November 11, 2019 at 14:02 No Responses »

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Video documentary about the making of In Mourning‘s fifth studio album “Garden Of Storms”, which is released on October 4th, 2019 on Agonia Records.

The band commented on the new album: “We made a new album! It’s called Garden of Storms and it is the final piece in a trilogy which started with The Weight Of Oceans. We’ve headed back… and forward, at the same time. We’re back recording with Jonas Kjellgren who made the sound of our earlier albums, yet we have a lot of things that are new with this album. The band constellation is new with Sebastian and Jocke, we’ve worked in ways we’ve never done before, new vibes and new songs even if we planted the seeds to some of them a long time ago. In times where things kind of seem to scatter and change a lot around us, this still feels like our most solid, honest and complete album to date.”

In Mourning – “Garden of Storms” Album Stream

Posted by thrashboy on October 25, 2019 at 20:01 No Responses »

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Progressive melodic death metal band In Mourning are currently streaming their 5th new album “Garden Of Storms” which is released on October 4th via Agonia Records.