Swedish one-man doom metal band Blissful Stream released sophomore album »Fighting For The Cross«; out now via Journey’s End Records!
Stockholm, Sweden based one-man doom metal band Blissful Stream presents sophomore full-length album, »Fighting For The Cross«, which was released on June 30th, 2024 via Journey’s End Records.
Listen to »Fighting For The Cross« on Spotify and other streaming platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Fighting For The Cross
02. Chimaera
03. Baptised By Fire
04. The Longest Road
05. Our Final Hour
06. The Devil’s Will
Courtesy of Journey’s End Records:
Sweden has always been predestinated to be a doom metal country due to it’s long lasting and utterly dark winter when not even the sun dares to rise over the frozen mystical landscape. And their country itself has something magical, the huge areas where not a single soul seems to live, vast forests and tundra, all inhabitated by ancient legends, spirits of earth, sky and trees, with unspeakable customs by those few who sharpend their skills way enough to arduously wrest fruits off the barren ground.
So, yes, doom metal in all it’s epic depth should find a fruitful soil in Sweden and ever since the mighty Candlemass and Mercy had their glory days in the 80s this particular style in heavy metal music spawned the one or another master of his guild. Nearly forty years after the Initial doom metal cult classics here we have another soon to be in full bloom act which has learned from the ancients and is now ready to proffer the newly written tales of creation and damnation to the audience longing for more enchantment.
With melodies, so dark and haunting as a night out alone in forests and mountains, yet letting a spark of hope shine through the misty veil of ancient dreams long forgotten before nightfall based on riffs so rugged and brittle yet somehow strongly memorable, hypnotic rhythms and basslines that dance around and flow into each other, the six powerful and quite bewitching original pieces of musical alchemy courtesy of Stockholm’s Blissful Stream make sure you as a listener feel at home with style and performance yet utterly disturbed by a macabre atmosphere. Traditions are held high on this, their second album after 2020’s »When The Wolves Start To Circle« from which as their basecamp they embark on a journey into the long forgotten caves lying within the mountains of madness. This is a kind of Lovecraftian take on what doom metal stands for and definitely as true to it’s roots as it is unique. Doomsters shall dare to taste the obscurity from the plates at Journey’s End’s record maker’s sound kitchen.
Available as ltd. colored (100) and black (200) vinyl incl. lyric inlay sheet. Order your copy here: journeysendrecords.bigcartel.com
Music, lyrics, recording, mix and layout by Martin Sällström.
Cover painting by Hans Wikström in 1829.
Logos by Magnus Öhrn at 6hirts 6f 6atan.
Recorded and mixed at Studio Sinnesfrid.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well