Shadows Toward My Sky
Forever Lost My Dying Love
[Independent]


Shadows Toward My Sky is a German young romantic dark metal band with six (!) members. They might consider themselves black metal (they wear facepaint in the cover picture) and I have seen them labelled as black metal, but I don’t think that love and tears and pity of loneliness are topics for black metal.

This isn’t anything sound-wise grim or satanik either. A point of comparison would be Katatonia at the ”December Souls” era. Mostly slow- and mid-paced tempos, with melodramatic guitar lines and despairingly screamed vocals. There are also moments of unnecessary gothik low male sorrowful speech. The B side track is faster, more brutal and there is someone squeaking for 20 seconds or so. How appropriate!

This band has instrumental skill and this EP sounds competent enough to assume that they will get a record deal soon if they do not have such already. It’s produced in a studio and the songs are done with some artistically valid inspiration that made this quite listenable for me, too.


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