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The Black Winter

by Darkened

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bmurator Death Metal from Sweden / Canada. Based on old school Swedish DM with great instrumentals. I will say it again - the vocals are stunning for me as this is one of the few albums where I can understand almost every word. Highly recommended! Favorite track: Plague of Despair.
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spectral_grøøve_HM2 The first one was already excellent..
This one is even better. True crushing & grooving OSDM From start to finish ! The Castellano's artwork is breathtaking (as usual) and the songwriting is very interesting ! Intense atmosphere throughout the entire album ! Thanks a lot for this amazing album ! 🖤🤘🏼 Favorite track: Plague of Despair.
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Old Man Metal A masterful slab of modern Eurodeath that shows a huge old-school-Swedeath influence. It lays bare the cadaverous remains of a death-shadowed realm of torment, despair, and unlife... and establishes Darkened as master wielders of the magnificent old zweihander that is Scandinavian death metal. Top-tier. Favorite track: Plague of Despair.
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As presaged earlier this year by the quick-hitting Mourn the Dying Light EP, DARKENED arrive with their massive second album, The Black Winter. Immediately, their trademark sound is in place - clear & crushing riffs, grooves like a tank, an overall world-eating sensibility - but delve deeper and one will find DARKENED expanding their already-considerable powers. Most prominently, there's a surprising amount of atmosphere being explored on The Black Winter, true to its namesake. The resultant spaciousness is somehow just as suffocating as the band's now-characteristic density; whether it's in the riffing itself or the very subtle touches of synth underneath, the album certainly bears a unique-yet-unified aspect. From there, melancholic twists and wistful melody are seamlessly integrated into the DARKENED onslaught of sound, which alternately pushes the aggression to murderous levels and the doom to the darkest depths; put another way, everything here sounds HUGE. And credit for that must go to Linus Nirbrant, who handled The Black Winter's production, as well as mixing & mastering by the Dan Swanö at Unisound - truly, one will not find a clearer yet more crushing death metal record this year!

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released May 27, 2022

Mixed and mastered by Dan Swäno. Artwork by Juanjo Castellano.

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