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"Falling World", a brand new song from Finnish doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's fifth album, "New Moon", which is scheduled for release on November 10 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with such acts as KATATONIA, OPETH, PARADISE LOST and AMON AMARTH. Kai Hahto (WINTERSUN, ex-ROTTEN SOUND) has been recruited to play drums on the album following the recent departure of longtime skinsman Pasi Pasanen.

"New Moon" track listing:

01. These Woods Breathe Evil
02. Falling World
03. Sleepless Swans
04. And Heavens Cried Blood
05. Lights on the Lake (Horror Pt. III)
06. New Moon
07. Servant of Sorrow
08. Weight of the Dead

Finnish doom metallers SWALLOW THE SUN have announced details for their fifth full length album, titled Emerald Forest And The Blackbird. According to a press release, the album "features ten tracks of the trademark Swallow The Sun sound of gloom, beauty and despair."

The tracklist is as follows:

'Emerald Forest And The Blackbird'
'This Cut Is The Deepest'
'Hate, Lead The Way'
'Cathedral Walls' (featuring NIGHTWISH's Anette Olzon)
'Hearts Wide Shut'
'Silent Towers'
'Labyrinth Of London (Horror Pt. IV)'
'Of Death And Corruption'
'April 14th'
'Night Will Forgive Us'

We are proud to announce that the release date for our triple full-length album is November 13th, 2015.

Songs from the North is:
“Songs from the North I” continues in the vein of the albums before it – first-rate death-doom.

“Songs from the North II” is a beautiful acoustic foray, unplugged revel in the darkness.

“Songs from the North III” is the most extreme album, a complete ride into most horrific abyss of finely-crafted, conscience-crushing funeral doom.

The release will be available as Special Edition 3CD Box containing 3 Digipaks and a booklet, Ltd. Deluxe Edition 5LP+3CD Box with each album in a gatefold sleeve & as digital album.

Cover photos by Aleah L Stanbridge Photography

Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN will release their new album, "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light", on January 25, 2019 through Century Media Records. Only one month earlier, on December 21, they will release a standalone 14-minute epic single track called "Lumina Aurea", both digitally and as a 12-inch EP vinyl version.

Fueled by personal loss (the album title has its origins in TREES OF ETERNITY's "Broken Mirror") and powered by the will to continue, "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light" showcases the group's ability to maintain its signature sound while expanding upon horizons and diving deeper into the crevasse of doom-death metal. Even though the single and the album are conceptually connected, they are musically completely different. While "Lumina Aurea" — featuring WARDRUNA's Einar Selvik and THE FORESHADOWING's Marco I. Benevento — marks the band's darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released, "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light" follows a more positive approach and continues in the vein of previous albums — first-rate death-doom in the typical style of SWALLOW THE SUN.

"When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light" track listing:

01. When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
02. The Crimson Crown
03. Firelights
04. Upon The Water
05. Stone Wings
06. Clouds On Your Side
07. Here On The Black Earth
08. Never Left

"Lumina Aurea" track listing:

01. Lumina Aurea
02. Lumina Aurea (instrumental version)