Shores Of Null shares »My Darkest Years« live video from Hellfest 2024; full live video available now on ThunderFlix!
Photo by Sabrina Caramanico
Italian melodic death/doom metal band Shores Of Null has released new live performance video for »My Darkest Years« from Hellfest Open Air 2024.
Setlist:
Intro: Transitory
01. Destination Woe
02. The Last Flower
03. Ruins Alive
04. Quiescent
05. Darkness Won’t Take Me
06. Nothing Left To Burn
07. My Darkest Years
08. A New Death Is Born
Outro: Blazing Sunlight
Courtesy of Asher Media Relations:
Announcing their partnership with Thunderflix earlier this November to showcase their full live performance at this year’s Hellfest Open Air (Temple Stage) in Clisson, France, Italian melodic death-doom force Shores of Null are sharing their next clip from the festival for the song »My Darkest Years« off their latest and fourth record »The Loss Of Beauty« released on Spikerot Records during March 2023.
Vocalist Davide Straccione adds: “Hellfest was the culmination of an intense promotional cycle during which we had the privilege of taking »The Loss Of Beauty« far and wide. Stepping onto that stage was an incredibly powerful experience, rewarding us for years of relentless hard work, dedication, and a deep love for what we do. We felt the energy of the crowd resonating with us, and in that moment, it truly felt like we were exactly where we were meant to be. On a personal level, it was a dream come true, and I believe I can speak for the entire band when I say it was the highlight of our career so far.”
The full set can be viewed on ThunderFlix, the world’s premier on-demand video streaming service dedicated exclusively to heavy metal music HERE.
Live video credits:
Live sound tech: Nikos Giagkoudakis
Video recording: Sombrero & Co
Shores Of Null’s delivered a powerful performance at Hellfest in France this past summer as part of the band’s extensive touring in support of their new album »The Loss Of Beauty«. This fourth album follows the acclaimed »Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)«, unanimously considered by fans and critics as one of the doom-metal gems of recent years. Both albums were recorded between 2019 and early 2020, and although »The Loss Of Beauty« was initially conceived as the band’s third album, ‘Beyond The Shores’ took its place as it better reflected the doom and gloom sentiment of the ‘annus horribilis’ 2020.
Across 11 tracks (plus two bonus tracks), Shores Of Null once again submerges listeners with tempestuous and turbulent riffs. The band continues to hone its sound and take its melancholic dark metal to new heights by mastering an assorted palette of genres with inbred poignancy. 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.
Dark and heavy, tinged with feelings of despair, »The Loss Of Beauty« was released on March 24th, 2023, and recommended for fans of Swallow The Sun, Borknagar, and Paradise Lost.
About Shores Of Null:
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«, was released in March of 2023.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well