Swallow the Sun (Official Thread)

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http://swallowthesun.net/
Wikipedia

Discography
The Morning Never Came (2003)
Ghosts of Loss (2005)
Hope (2007)
New Moon (2009)
Emerald Forest and the Blackbird (2012)
Songs from the North I, II & III (2015)

Line-up
Juha Raivio - guitar (2000–present)
Markus Jämsen - guitar (2001–present)
Mikko Kotamäki - vocals (2001–present)
Aleksi Munter - keyboards (2001–present)
Matti Honkonen - bass guitar (2001–present)
Juuso Raatikainen - drums (2014–present)






Melodic death metal/doom band from Finland. They formed in 2000 and are still currently together.

"Don't Fall Asleep" and "The Morning Never Came" are amazing songs.






They have a small flaw of similar sounding songs but they are still awesome.​

 

[FoxyPage]

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Current line-up
Matti Honkonen - bass guitar
Markus Jämsen - guitar
Mikko Kotamäki - vocals
Aleksi Munter - keyboards
Juha Raivio - guitar
Kai Hahto - drums

Former members
Pasi Pasanen - drums

Albums
The Morning Never Came (2003)
Ghosts of Loss (2005)
Hope (2007)
New Moon (2009)
[edit] Videos
"Descending Winters" (2005)
"Don't Fall Asleep" (2007)
"Doomed To Walk The Earth" (2007)

Singles
"Forgive Her..." (2005)
"Don't Fall Asleep (Horror Pt. 2)" (2007)

Demos
Out of This Gloomy Light (2003)

EPs
Plague of Butterflies (2008)

 

[Magic]

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A couple of your videos are no longer available, but the two songs you mentioned are great stuff. They have clean vocals, and very dramatic, deep, ambient music. The last video lost me as soon as I heard that horrid growling.

I would love to hear more of this band if the vocals were as clean as the songs "Dont Fall Asleep" and "The Morning Never Came".

The one thing I find disturbing about this band is the Depressing nature of the lyrics. The music seems so moody and depressed.

 

[Soot and Stars]

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These guys aren't bad. They are very melodic. I don't mind a depressing nature in music so I had no problem with that but you are right about there songs tending to sound similar. Regardless though, it wasn't a bad listen!

 

[snakes&ladders]

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There's that something that distinguishes Finnish bands form all the rest

 

[Grunge]

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A couple of your videos are no longer available, but the two songs you mentioned are great stuff. They have clean vocals, and very dramatic, deep, ambient music. The last video lost me as soon as I heard that horrid growling.

I would love to hear more of this band if the vocals were as clean as the songs "Dont Fall Asleep" and "The Morning Never Came".

The one thing I find disturbing about this band is the Depressing nature of the lyrics. The music seems so moody and depressed.

It's the beauty that's offered in doom. Their sound is dark, volumized, slow, detailed, and breathtaking in it's own melodic trip.

They have failed to make one shit album. It just isn't possible.

Finland in particular produces such high quality bands in melodic death and doom metal. I was going to do a thread on Swallow the Sun but I see Pink has covered it for me already (I love you)

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

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I loved depressing lyrics especially on windy cold rainy days like today. Just something soothing about it too me.

Awesome thread.

 

[FoxyPage]

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It's the beauty that's offered in doom. Their sound is dark, volumized, slow, detailed, and breathtaking in it's own melodic trip.

They have failed to make one shit album. It just isn't possible.

Finland in particular produces such high quality bands in melodic death and doom metal. I was going to do a thread on Swallow the Sun but I see Pink has covered it for me already (I love you)

That's one of the reasons why I love music like this. I never look at this stuff as 'wow, these guys must want to die' but rather see the beauty they are exhibiting through the 'depressing' sounds.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

These guys were mentioned on youtube in the Draconian-Rivers Between Us video, so I checked out some of their stuff.

Frickin' amazing. Very stable lineup for 6 albums and an EP, all of which I just ordered yesterday.

Great clean and "dirty" vocals from Mikko. I really like the different layers a band gets from different kinds of vocals, whether it's 1 or 2 singers.

Incredible musicianship, which is something that draws me to most "new" bands.

Really looking forward to an epic marathon when I get those CD's ripped.

 

[joker1961]

hi just found this band on youtube.com. but I`m totally unsure which album or albums to go for first...