Italian blackened gothic doom metal band Shores Of Null shares new music video for »Darkness Won’t Take Me« and announces new live shows!
Italian blackened gothic doom metal band Shores Of Null has released new music video for »Darkness Won’t Take Me« taken from their latest full-length album, »The Loss Of Beauty«, out on March 24th, 2023 via Spikerot Records.
Tracklist:
01. Transitory
02. Destination Woe
03. The Last Flower
04. Darkness Won’t Take Me
05. Nothing Left To Burn
06. Old Scars
07. The First Son
08. A Nature In Disguise
09. My Darkest Years
10. Fading As One
11. A New Death Is Born
Bonus Tracks (CD and digital only)
12. Underwater Oddity
13. Blazing Sunlight
Courtesy of All Noir PR:
Rome-based blackened gothic doom quintet Shores Of Null have shared a new, stunning music video for the song »Darkness Won’t Take Me«, taken from their latest album »The Loss Of Beauty«, released last March via Spikerot Records. The new visual offering has been once again entrusted to Sanda Movies and can be watched via No Clean Singing HERE.
Vocalist Davide Straccione details: “While I was collecting ideas for the album’s lyrics, I remember having a chat with Martina of Sanda Movies about possible topics, starting from visual ideas. Martina knows us very well, in fact, she contributed since our first album to create our visual identity through the videos she made for us. She showed me a painting by the Italian artist Verdirosi, portraying an old man, tired and hunchback, pulling a barrow with the grim reaper patiently sitting on it, and immediately connected with that vision. I imagined a man that had lived his life to the fullest, his time has come but he’s holding back death for a little longer ’cause he’s so attached to life. He will leave this world on his own terms, and without regrets.”
The band goes on to share that stylistically, »The Loss Of Beauty« continues along the sulcus set forth by »Quiescence« and »Black Drapes For Tomorrow«, its melancholic dark metal with a wide range of influences, from gothic metal to doom metal and melodic black/death metal, with frequent use of vocal harmonies and deep growls. The lyrics celebrate beauty in imperfection and transience and are meant to be an invitation to seek beauty in little things, especially those unexpected and ephemeral.
Photo by Sabrina Caramanico
The album consists of 13 songs, while the LP version only contains 11, the two extra tracks are bonus tracks that can be found on the CD version as well as on the streaming platforms. Dark and heavy, tinged with feelings of despair and melancholy, »The Loss Of Beauty« was released on March 24th, 2023, and is recommended for fans of Swallow The Sun, Borknagar, and Paradise Lost.
»The Loss Of Beauty« is out now on Spikerot Records and available for purchase HERE!
After their successful European Tour with Swallow The Sun, Draconian and Avatarium, the band will soon resume their live shows in support of their latest album »The Loss Of Beauty«, with an ever-growing list of dates:
09/09/2023 – Summer Metal Festival – Rieti (IT)
30/09/2023 – Metal Gates – Bucharest (RO)
04/11/2023 – Fall Fest – Helsinki (FI)
09/12/2023 – Scumm – Pescara (IT)
12/01/2024 – tba (IT)
13/01/2024 – Metal Symposium – Waves of Doom Fest II – Bari (IT)
01/03/2024 – Ziggy – Torino (IT)
02/03/2024 – The Academy – Mantova (IT)
15/03/2024 – Rework – Perugia (IT)
16/03/2024 – Slaugther – Milano (IT)
About: Shores Of Null stand out from their contemporaries with their ability to blend seemingly disparate elements into their sound, overwhelmingly heavy and soothing at the same time: blackened aggression stands alongside gothic-doom sections without either sounding out of place. Their music can be both melancholic yet majestic, made of chorale-like guitar textures across the instrument’s entire range, sustained by a powerful rhythmic section and punctuated by a refined mixture of clean and growled vocals, along with extensive use of pleasing vocal harmonies which have become the band’s trademark through the years.
The Rome-based metal band has been an unwavering presence within the metal underground since their musical outset in 2013, churning out three impressive records: the melodic and somber »Quiescence« (Candlelight, 2014), the darker and more complex »Black Drapes For Tomorrow« (Candlelight / Spinefarm, 2017), and finally their most ambitious work to date »Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)« (Spikerot Records, 2020), a 38-minute long opus which continues to prove the band’s willingness to go off the beaten path while creating their ultimate doom manifesto.
The band’s fourth album »The Loss Of Beauty«, recorded during the same sessions of »Beyond The Shores«, is expected to be released in March of 2023.
Shores Of Null is:
Davide Straccione – Vocals
Gabriele Giaccari – Guitars
Raffaele Colace – Guitars
Matteo Capozucca – Bass
Emiliano Cantiano – Drums
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