Swallow The Sun Announce New Album Shining, “What I Have Become” Streaming Now

August 9th, 2024 at 9:42am
Hesher Keenan

Get ready for the sad times, as Finnish death-doom metal band Swallow The Sun have returned with the announcement of a new album coming out this October, titled Shining. In conjunction with their reveal, they’ve dropped a new single titled “What I Have Become” that you can stream right now.

Swallow The Sun guitarist and keyboardist Juha Raivio explained that the album’s first single is all about a deep moment of sobering introspection that opens your eyes to reality for once.

“´What I Have Become` is about that moment when you look yourself deep in the eye from the mirror and your own eyes start to tell what your soul has become instead of what you always wanted it to be. The hardest thing is to forgive yourself and break that circle”.

With a promise that the album will take you “through personal hell and back,” the record’s likely going to do that through the efforts Dan Lancaster, who produced and mixed the album, as well as Tony Lindgren, who mastered the whole thing. The whole thing was recorded by Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio, except vocals, which were recorded by Lancaster.

Raivio expanded on the meaning of Shining.

“After our last album, it soon became clear to me that writing another Moonflowers album would kill me. So, I made a quiet wish to myself that if there ever will be any new music then please have a little bit of mercy on yourself rather than be that infinite black hole that will suck out the rest of your remaining light and soul just for the sake of it. Musically this album shines like a glacier diamond and has that power and punch that feels like a kick in your face! While lyrically the album deals with how fearing life will eventually kill you and how melancholy can become your God.

“We want to thank all the support and trust from Century Media, not to mention our insanely talented producer Dan Lancaster having the balls and guts to jump straight in the deep end with this band and get us out of our comfort zone. This album truly feels like a sunrise in the night sky.”

Shining will be released on October 18 via Century Media Records, but you can preorder your copy today.