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Dave Everley

“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of the Living Night is briliant and beautiful

Jonathan Hulten – Eyes Of The Living Night.

Jonathan Hultén’s pivot from extreme metal to something more ethereal has been one of the more welcome transformations of the past few years.

On his 2020 debut album, Chants From Another Place, the former guitarist with Swedish growlers Tribulation stripped away the gnarled noise in a favour of a liminal beauty: Nick Drake resurrected and relocated to a wintry Scandinavian forest, dressed in 1920s movie-star makeup and a widow’s veil.

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