Italy’s AWAKE THE SUN To Release Debut Album On CD In February; Full Stream Available

Venice, Italy-based progressive doom metallers, Awake The Sun, will release their debut album, The Barren Sleep, on CD in February via Sliptrick Records. A digital edition of the album is available now via Bandcamp.

Awake The Sun is a project created by the founders of Italian avant-garde metal band, Ensoph (active for more than 13 years with four albums released and many gigs played around Europe), and members from Alkemic Generator, Cube and Howl Of Minerva.

The project blends together dark progressive metal and electronic/ambient influences with the aim to create unique misty melancholic atmospheres and to obtain a personal interpretation of the classic European dark/doom metal sounds. Gloomy and technical riffs, dismal scores, unconventional rhythmic patterns enhanced by a range of melodic vocal arrangements are the trademark of the band.

The Barren Sleep contains eight tracks of sad emotional landscapes, a journey through broken hopes and inquietudes, heavy and sharp riffs on polish rhythmical structures entwined with bittersweet melodies and haunting feels. For fans of Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Novembre, Amorphis, Alcest, Opeth, Anathema, The Foreshadowing.

The album was recorded at Xanctum LAB studios in Padua by the band itself, and mastered by Giuseppe Orlando and Alfonso Corace at The Outer Sound Studios in Rome.

Tracklisting:
    
“Awake”
“No Sun”
“Snow Stained Heart”
“The Withering”
“Distant Calling”
“Empire”
“Hours”
“Redemption”