Swedish progressive stoner/doom metal band Altareth return with new full-length album »Passage – The Welfare Sessions«!

Gothenburg, Sweden based progressive stoner/doom metal band Altareth stream their second full-length album, »Passage – The Welfare Sessions«, which was just released independently on November 16th, 2024.

Listen to »Passage – The Welfare Sessions« on all major streaming services!

Tracklist:
01. Passage
02. Archetypes
03. The Stars
04. Singapore
05. Pilgrim
06. Nico
07. Recluse

Altareth is a band from the Swedish west coast based in Gothenburg. The four pillars of the Altareth sound are clean vocals, fuzzy guitars, pounding drums and fat electric bass guitar. The basic idea and musical foundation of Altareth is the meeting of heavy riffs and memorable melodies. The band is influenced by first and second wave doom, psych and stoner bands but also a lot of Swedish and Scandinavian rock and metal bands.

“Last summer the five members of what was then known as one of the most promising Doom rock-outfits since God knows when, gathered their instruments of war and head off to Welfare Studios. They loaded in the gear, executed their craft and out came the most glorious riffs one can imagine. The tracks were laid down through pure live takes. No cheating and no extra anything (except maybe some keys…). Pure Altareth all the way. This is the way that Altareth sounded during their heydays. A well executed recording with well crafted songs. So tune in, turn it up and give it a spin!”

Recorded at Welfare Sounds.
Produced & mixed by Kalle Lilja & Per Stålberg.
Adittitional engineering by Daniel Dollars Deurell.
Mastered by Johan Reivén at Audiolord Mastering.

Altareth is:
Patrik Strömberg – Vocals
Niklas Sörum – Guitar
Sven Lindqvist – Guitar
Mats Lindgren – Bass
Vigfus Valgeirsson – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well