The Morning Never Came

Scandinavian countries emerged in the Metal community and quickly established with success thanks to very strong scenes, where so many styles got continuously created and recreated by surprising acts. Doom Metal has its roots in Sweden, when Candlemass appeared in the 80’s with “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”. Years later, already in the following decade, the Peaceville Records English trio My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost and Anathema started a revolution and became popular with their aggressive style that combined Doom with Death Metal. However, Finland can be proud of, today, being one of the most talked countries between the admirers of this genre. Swallow The Sun is just one more reason to continue like that.

Melodic Death/Doom with slight Funeral Doom influences is a good definition for their sound; something like new Hypocrisy meets My Dying Bride, knows Shape Of Despair. Not really an accurate approach, but “The Morning Never Came” isn’t exactly easy to label, you get the impression you’ve heard something similar before but you will never realise what or who, they end up having their own sound. They use mainly deep grunted vocals, creepy keyboards and heavy riffs arranged in slow songs with many tempo changes that keep the album very atmospheric and interesting on each moment, in a depressive but enraged environment.

It was great that they included the songs from their demo because, first, I didn’t knew them and possibly would never be able to get that work, and second, because “Through Her Silvery Body” and “Out Of This Gloomy Night” are impressive and definitely among the best they have done so far on their still very short career, it would be a shame to leave them out.

Listen to this if you like extreme Doom Metal and expect just that. Swallow The Sun seems to be full of ideas and this album is really great.