
The Shores Of Melancholia is the start of a project Green Carnation have been working towards since their return in 2016. The Norwegians had a trilogy in mind before their 2020 comeback album, Leaves Of Yesteryear, and the first act of A Dark Poem promises a spectacular adventure ahead.
They’re no strangers to extensive excursions – 2002’s classic Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness was a single hour-long song, for example – and the format allows them to construct a single strand of creativity with as many changes in structure, tempo and dynamics as they see fit.