Highly ambitious new 70-min full length
After four long years, the follow-up to Eternal Storm‘s legendary ‘Come the Tide’ album is finally here! Not only does the ambitious new full length live up to it, the band have further expanded upon the sound and it’s more diverse, structured, and darker still. The melodies are more evocative and poignant than ever before and coupled with their gloomy, enveloping atmosphere, it all but causes an emotional breakdown.
Eternal Storm (Spain) – A Giant Bound to Fall (Progressive Death Metal)
In 2019, Spanish progressive/melodic death metal band Eternal Storm released their debut full length ‘Come the Tide, which was a shockingly accomplished, poignant and evocative album which many still regards to be one of the highlights in the style. Four years later, after working meticulously to hone their sound even more, they return having fulfilled a seemingly impossible task – to come up with a worthy follow up album, one that doesn’t betray the sound nor dilute it. On ‘A Giant Bound to Fall’, shattering the apprehensions, they’ve actually taken the sound further ahead; it’s far more nuanced, multifaceted and feels even darker. The emotions are just as palpable as before but are rawer, more piercing, and the heightened extreme parts are not at the expense of their immersive atmospheric ones. The painstaking recording process ensured that and for the sound to remain organic and tangible. It’s a giant step ahead in the logical direction, for them, for the entire style. There is little doubt that this hugely ambitious and more importantly still passionate and heartfelt album will go down as another towering landmark in the genre. With music so pristine, it becomes a salve for the soul.
For fans of: Be’lakor, Dyssebeia, Insomnium, Dark Tranquillity, In Mourning, At the Gates
Line up –
Daniel R. Flys | Vocals (lead), guitars, keyboards, bass
Jaime Torres | Guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass, fretless bass
Daniel Maganto | Bass, guitars (additional), vocals (additional)
Session drums and percussion on this recording by Gabriel Valcázar (Wormed, Ernia)
Additional keyboards and synths by Jaboto Fernández (Nexus 6, TodoMal)
Noise and additional synths on track 1 by Roberto Bustabad (Varunian, Ovakner, Rvinas)
Additional vocals on track 2 by Sven de Caluwé (Aborted)
Additional vocals on track 4 by Kheryon
Violin on track 4 by Paul R. Flys
Additional vocals on track 6 by Eloi Boucherie (Vidres a la Sang, White Stones)
Additional vocals on track 7 by Dan Swanö
Additional vocals on track 9 by Sergi “Bobby” Verdeguer (Persefone)
Artwork by Leoncio Harmr
Track listing –
An Abyss of Unreason
A Dim Illusion
There was a Wall
Last Refuge
Eclipse
Lone Tree Domain
The Sleepers
The Void
A Giant Bound to Fall
Band Links:
https://eternalstormdm.bandcamp.com/album/a-giant-bound-to-fall
https://www.facebook.com/eternalstormofficial
Label Links:
https://transcendingobscurity.aisamerch.com/
*Thanks to Transcending Obscurity