SWALLOW THE SUN FEEL OUR PAIN OF THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

As Daylight Savings Time comes to a close, the most depressing and dark time of year is now upon us. No band’s name sums it up better than Finland’s Swallow the Sun, and their music captures the impending feelings of gloom and despair via moody, dark, Scandinavian doom-metal. Slow, downtuned, neo-classical bludgeonry and razor sharp keyboards slice through a bowel-movement inducing death metal growl to make some of the most depressing music imaginable. My mood today and feelings about how it got dark at 4:30 last night are perfectly captured in “Descending Winters,” below.

My heart goes out to my Scandinavian metal brothers and sisters who have to deal with only 6 hours of daylight come December. I don’t know how you guys make it through. Actually, I guess you just write depressing music like this.

-VN

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