shedfromthebody - To Hold the Ripened Sun (2021)

Last year, Suvi Savikko and her music project completely swept me of my feet with her blackgaze ethereal masterpiece A Dead and Aimless Hum. I named her the best post-metal act of the year and I couldn't be more happy from the fact that only 12 months later, she's back with another record called To Hold the Ripened Sun.

The Finnish artist's "music paints a distorted, ethereal landscape, through which she carries her songs with hauntingly beautiful vocals and lone, wailing guitars". The second album sounds really like a followup to the debut with very similar atmosphere reached by the doom metal musician. She effortlessly combines the metal-like darkness and grandeur with the ethereal, oneiric vocals and slow pace of the more dreamy genres. As a result, her music is both goth and airy, doom-like and soothing. 

There are some tasty surprises, most notably In the Pines and its folk-like beginning that goes on as an Americana ballad with crunchy guitars and way clearer vocals. Or, my favourite part, the mesmerizing, very modern-sounding repetitive finish of Halfsorrow. I particularly like the quality of guitar sounds that, although very heavy, doom-like style, give a lot of room for the vocals to enchant their own, dreamy spells on the audience.

To Hold the Ripened Sun costs 10 EUR.

shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum (2020)

Check: Halfsorrow

Country: Finland

Genre: ethereal blackgaze

Label: Black Terror Records

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