There Is No Tomorrow Gone Beyond Sorrow Under a Sheltering Mask

Luna, is an up and coming one-man symphonic funeral death/doom band from the Ukraine. Even though only three songs have been released at this point, Luna is in my opinion an already ultra-polished and talented act. You can tell by listening to the previous album, “Ashes to Ashes”, that Luna may have been inspired slightly by bands such as “Comatose Vigil”, “Ea” and “Monolithe”, and perhaps even some old school “Cradle of Filth” and “Crematory” to a slight degree. The guy from Luna probably took all the things that he enjoys listening to and rolled it all up fervently into one dark entity to create “Ashes to Ashes” - a crushing 57-minute 1-song kaleidoscope of sorrow, anger and beauty.

Now his new EP, “There is no Tomorrow Gone Beyond Sorrow Under a Sheltering Mask”, is quite a bit shorter than the before mentioned 57-minutes long “Ashes to Ashes”. It contains only two songs, “In a Silver Velvet of the Moon” – 5:13 long, and “There is no Tomorrow Gone Beyond Sorrow Under a Sheltering Mask” – 8:22 long. Even though these two songs are significantly shorter than “Ashes to Ashes”, they certainly carry on Luna’s patented shadowy and ominous sound.

Both songs open up with a slithering march of ghostly keyboards. The keyboards of Luna in both songs are quite exquisite. Sometimes layered 3-deep, they haunt fourth upon both songs like a lost spirit creeping up your spine. The lead and rhythm guitars are also a great delicacy upon the ears and often treat the listener to some beefy doom-death style riffs. The drums are also superb, sometimes blasting fourth beats that would probably impress the likes of Frost of Satyricon. No instrument overpowers over the others, they all flow together in a cascading dance of malevolence and splendor. There are no lyrics or voices spoken on this EP, it’s all instrumental. Luna focuses solely on the music and lets the dark emotions of the melodies paint what the songs are all about.

Luna is definitely marching in the right direction with this EP. It has a little less Funeral than ”Ashes to Ashes” and a little more melodic death but die-hard funeral purists won’t be disappointed; it’s still ever bit as great as “Ashes to Ashes”. Unfortunately this EP ends way too soon and leaves one yearning for more. I suspect and hope that these two songs are samples of something larger to come out soon. If you enjoyed Luna’s first work, “Ashes to Ashes”, don’t hesitate to snag this one up, you won’t be disappointed. If you’re a fan of funeral doom, and/or melodic death metal, definitely give Luna a close listen. They will probably rise near the top, or perhaps even to the top, of your list.