Witherscape - The Inheritance (2013)

Atmospheric / Progressive Death Metal from Sweden

@ 320 Kbps
[Mp3]

Line Up:

Dan Swanö - Vocals, Keyboards, Drums (Frameshift, Nightingale, Odyssey, Demiurg, Star One, ex-Dan Swanö, ex-Diabolical Masquerade, ex-Edge of Sanity, ex-Godsend, ex-Incision, ex-Infestdead, ex-Karaboudjan, ex-Masticate, ex-Pan.Thy.Monium, ex-Steel, ex-Stygg Död, ex-Total Terror, ex-Unicorn, ex-Darkcide, ex-Route Nine, Obliterhate, ex-Another Life, ex-Bloodbath, ex-Overflash, ex-Ribspreader, ex-Brejn Dedd, ex-Maceration, ex-Sörskogen)
Ragnar Widerberg - Guitars, Bass

Guest Musicians:

Paul Kuhr - Additional Vocals (Novembers Doom, Subterranean Masquerade, These Are They, ex-Laceration, ex-Em Sinfonia, ex-Earthen) on track 4, 8
Eddie Risdal - Additional Vocals (Ancestral Legacy, Legacy of Emptiness, ex-Sykdom, ex-V:28, ex-Misvita, ex-V:O:I:D) on track 2, 8
Morten Møller Jørgensen - Additional Vocals on track 8
Joel Selsfors - Moog Synthesizer on track 4

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WITHERSCAPE, the stunning new dark metal outfit formed by Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Dan Swanö together with fellow Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ragnar Widerberg, released its debut album entitled "The Inheritance", on July 29th in Europe and August 6th in North America via Century Media Records.

"The Inheritance" is a pretty thick concept album split into different episodes and very briefly, the WITHERSCAPE story takes place in a remote village in northern Sweden in the late 1800's. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family he's informed by the family lawyer that he has inherited a large estate up north. Having been oblivious to the estate's existence, he decides to investigate, and once he's there "all kinds of weird shit happens," according to Dan Swanö.

The hauntingly beautiful cover artwork for "The Inheritance", was created by Travis Smith of Seempieces, who has previously worked with such bands as OPETH, NEVERMORE, DEATH and KATATONIA.

Swanö staes: "Both me and Ragnar are fascinated by old, abandoned buildings and it was pretty clear from the start that we would have the estate our main character inherits on the albumcover. We used Travis Smith as a 'medium' for our visual ideas and he did a spectacular job transforming our written wishes into a real image."

WITHERSCAPE marks the long overdue return as active composer and recording artist for Dan Swanö in the world of extreme metal, after having mostly been involved on the studio mixing end of things in these past years. Granted, "The Inheritance" is not purely a death metal release, but it smoothly showcases both the heavier and the mellow sides of Swanö's creativity and should consequently not only please fans of his earlier efforts like "Moontower" or the EDGE OF SANITY catalogue, but also attract friends of progressively atmospheric contemporary metal in the vein of OPETH, KATATONIA and AMORPHIS.

The official lyric video for the song "Dead For A Day", can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.

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Tracklist:

1. Mother Of The Soul
2. Astrid Falls
3. Dead For A Day
4. Dying For The Sun
5. To The Calling Of Blood And Dreams
6. The Math Of The Myth
7. Crawling From Validity 
8. The Wedlock Observation 
9. The Inheritance

Limited Edition Bonus Tracks:

10. Last Rose of Summer (Judas Priest Cover)
11. A Cry for Everyone (Gentle Giant Cover)

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Release Dates:

July 26th: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand
July 29th: UK, BeNeLux, France, Greece, Denmark, Portugal, Rest of Europe
July 30th: Spain, Italy
July 31st: Sweden, Hungary
August 6th: USA

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