Swallow The Sun are back! The band surprised fans today by announcing their new album that follows the ambitious triple album, Songs From The North I, II & III, released in 2015. The Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters will release their new album When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light on January 25th, 2019 through Century Media Records.

Only one month earlier, on December 21st, they will release a standalone 14-minutes epic single track called "Lumina Aurea", both digitally and as 12" EP vinyl version.




According to the label, fueled by personal loss (the album title has its origins in Trees Of Eternity's "Broken Mirror") and powered by the will to continue, When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light showcases the group's ability to maintain its signature sound while expanding upon horizons and diving deeper into the crevasse of doom-death metal. Even though the single and the album are conceptually connected, they are musically completely different. While "Lumina Aurea" - featuring Wardruna's Einar Selvik and The Foreshadowing's Marco I. Benevento - marks the band's darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released, When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light follows a more positive approach and continues in the vein of previous albums - first-rate death-doom in the typical style of Swallow The Sun.

Tracklist:

When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

The Crimson Crown

Firelights

Upon The Water

Stone Wings

Clouds On Your Side

Here On The Black Earth

Never Left

"Lumina Aurea" tracklist:

Lumina Aurea

Lumina Aurea (instrumental version)

Swallow The Sun have also announced their first shows for 2019. See below for all dates.

07.02.2019 Helsinki (Finland) - Nosturi*
08.02.2019 Turku (Finland) - Apollo*
09.02.2019 Jyväskylä (Finland) - Lutakko*
14.02.2019 Tampere (Finland) - Klubi*
15.02.2019 Oulu (Finland) - Teatria*
16.02.2019 Kuopio (Finland) - Henry's Pub*

* with The Man-Eating Tree

More dates to be announced soon!

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Swallow The Sun