Bringing together a wealth of experience and influences from the disparate musical worlds of extreme metal, alternative acoustic and traditional folk, Inver have created a musical identity rich in atmosphere, emotion and imagination. Coupled with a song writing ethic that embraces and entwines artistry and integrity, dreamlike textures and honesty as raw as an open wound, this new creative collective have unveiled a unique and enthralling debut album…On This Earth.
Behold the visualizer for ‘Tarnished Son’
On This Earth reaches into the soul of gothic metal and rock, grasping the essential darkness and emotional power that drives the genre and then adorns it with beguiling shades of synthwave, deep washes of shadow from a twilight palette that add breathtaking depth, lighting winter fires in the heart and imagination of the listener. Opening with the meandering melodies of ‘Truth’, On This Earth leads those with willing spirit through an incredible landscape of loss and desperation. The mist shrouded path winds through the vale of tears that is ‘Tarnished Son’, leads across the blasted heath of whispering confusion and wretchedness that is ‘Devil’s Hands’, down into ‘We All Get Lost’ and it’s abrasive, oppressive caverns of unrelenting blackness. It all ends in the cold peace of ‘I Stand With Trees’, a desolate masterpiece of despair, a final resting place for the broken. The intensity of emotion throughout the seven songs that form the cycle of On This Earth is punishing, the fall through its descending circles of gloom unforgiving, yet it possesses a stark beauty in its barren, starlit bleakness.
On This Earth will be released on January 19th, its freezing, heart-stopping embrace bringing a dark frost to the melancholy moments of the new year’s birth. The chill bane of its sorrow will spread through the months to come, a poison distilled from grief crawling through the veins of the world, transforming it into a tableau of sombre statues. The time has come to face the reality of the end.