In the quarter of a century since starting life as a death- doom band in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä, Swallow The Sun have let their love of prog slowly seep in. The five-piece’s ever more expansive sound, together with the growing complexity of their arrangements and 2015’s three-disc concept piece Songs From The North, all attest to that.
But their most progressive characteristic is their inability to sit still. Always seeking change and reinvention, they follow 2021’s emotionally and musically heavy Moonflowers with a record that’s more accessible than anything they’ve made before.
