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The title of SATURNUS' fifth album, "The Storm Within" is hinting at both, the tempest of the natural world and turmoil that can rage inside the mind. It is also quite obvious that the long time it took the Danes to create this full-length and the personal reasons behind the hiatus very much contributed and inspired its artistic expression. SATURNUS have outdone themselves with "The Storm Within". The musical themes of the seas, rain, and stormy waters are a subtle presence and guiding thread throughout the songs that reflect anger, loss, melancholy, and pain in equal measure. The fully matured craftsmanship on this album is sublime and extremely dynamic, ranging from moments of calm to brutal outbursts. Working again with producer Flemming Rasmussen, the legendary Danish producer of METALLICA's classic albums, also ensured that the sound of "The Storm Within" matches its outstanding musical quality. SATURNUS came into being when singer Thomas A.G. Jensen started looking for fellow musicians in the area of Denmark's capital Copenhagen to form a death metal act in 1991. Following a number of changes during the next few years, the name was finally switched to SATURNUS in 1993. The band released their first album "Paradise Belongs to You" in January 1997 and were immediately invited to perform at the famous Roskilde Festival the same year. The show was recorded by Norwegian Radio (NRK) and ended up being broadcast all over Scandinavia, which firmly established the band as a death doom household name in Northern Europe. Following their sophomore album "Martyre" (2000) and the iconic third studio full-length "Veronika Decides to Die" as well as constant touring throughout Europe and increasingly beyond, "Saturn in Ascension" was released in 2012, which was once again produced by Flemming Rasmussen. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, SATURNUS got back on the roads of Europe and also performed at prestigious festivals such as Brutal Assault (CZ), Copenhell (DK), and ArtMania (RO) among many others. The Danes continued touring with occasional breaks from 2014 until 2017, which got them as far as Russia and to the Middle East. After several notable changes in the line-up, SATURNUS were joined by guitarists Indee Rehal-Sagoo (formerly CLOUDS and EYE OF SOLITUDE) and Julio Fernandez from AUTUMNAL in 2020. Despite more obstacles created by the pandemic, the band finally started working on their next album and also continued their collaboration with Flemming Rasmussen. "The Storm Within" took a long time in its creation and along the way demanded painful sacrifices from SATURNUS. All the blood, pain, and sweat have left their marks on this record. Yet in the end, the brutal honesty and the baring of the soul emanating from each note is what makes "The Storm Within" such a brilliant piece of music.
CD with bonus track "The Swansong of My Heart" (demo version) in Digipak with 12-page booklet
Season of Mist is now reissuing FUNERAL’s ‘To Mourn Is a Virtue,’ which was originally released in 2011.
This release is the missing link between the band’s seminal albums, ‘Tragedies’ (1995) and ‘In Fields of Pestilent Grief’ (2002).
This compilation album contains a wealth of unreleased demo-recordings as well as nine rare tracks that had been recorded between 1996 and 2004 and remastered in 2010.
For fans of EVOKEN, AHAB, MOURNING BELOVETH.
Artwork by William-Adophe Bougereau - "Le premier deuil" (1888).
After a debut album that raised the attention of a nowadays crowded underground, the ambitious project from Italy now evokes their occult
essence and makes it flow into their highly anticipated comeback.
Moving from the European inspired Black Metal but inoculating on the same their peculiar Indo-Sumerian nostalgia, like an ancient cry in a
trembling scenario of shadows, Digir Gidim takes their visual and audial dimension to a more mature and intrinsic merging.
Supported by the usual majestic artwork created by Luciana Nedelea (Mare Cognitum, Fuath, Ghost Bath…), the music flows and takes us to our
most insane and struggling times, as primordial energies make the earth tremble.
Words as atmospheric and occult can in some way provide some anchors to the media but cannot fully describe the treasure trove of different
feelings and evocative emotions that create this sublime conflict.
Making some comparisons to the debut, Digir Gidim’s threatening, unsystematic and mostly disharmonic ritual absorbs huge waves of sadness and
bursting majesty, like perfectly represented on the album cover, opening a wider horizon of emotions and journeys through cold lands of non-existence.
It’s a voyage with no return, where chosen souls reach the Passage to Divination, a path through the silence of oceans and deserts, detaching themselves from humanity,
assuming transparency and the celestial shimmering moving to the ultimate sacrifice, surrendering to the merciless embrace of the Supreme Regulator
100 pages, professionally printed!
On this issue, editorial articles and interviews with: Spite Extreme Wing, Aborym, Minenwerfer, Antrisch, Marthe, The Gloomy Radiance Of The Moon, I, Voidhanger Records, Woods Of Desolation, Trivax, Deinonychus (early days interview), Midnight Odyssey, Swartadauþuz and… many more
WRITTEN IN ENGLISH / ENGLISH EDITION