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Swedish goth rockers De Arma return with their new single "After Dark, You're There". Taken from the upcoming EP entitled Nightcall - due for release on 6 May via Silent Future Recordings. While still firmly rooted in atmospheric melancholia, "After Dark, You're There" shows a somewhat heavier side of De Arma's current musical manifestation. It perfectly captures their unique ability to extract the most emotional and wistful elements from metal music and then infuse them into endless layers of cold, 80s synth melodies. The track sounds a bit like Paradise Lost at a darkwave festival, with Interpol performing My Dying Bride covers as openers.
Andreas commented: "I often ask myself - is this song about a woman? The Devil? Or something a bit more mundane, such as alcohol? Perhaps it's a combination of all three. I suppose this interpretation is in constant fluctuation, and always will be. Now that I've started to get some distance from the new recordings, I can detect clear traces of Fields Of The Nephilim in this one. It has a kind of ravaged feeling, despite being rather dreamy and soothing. "After Dark" is quite different from the remaining two tracks – both of which differ somewhat from one another. Despite its different presentation, this is definitely the material that's closest to what we've done in the past."
Fresh on the heels of their second album, Strayed In Shadows, Sweden's premiere gothic rock band De Arma return with a three-song EP called Nightcall. Whereas the full-length still showed some traces of De Arma's metal past, the EP introduces elements of darkwave into their ever-expanding sonic palette. Nonetheless, it retains many of the characteristics which earned the previous effort such as critical acclaim: the outpouring of raw emotion materialising through sweeping dreamscapes, gripping choruses, and the mesmerising interplay between vocalists Andreas Pettersson and Maria Oja.
Serving as a bridge between the second and third albums, Nightcall builds further on the Depeche Mode infatuation hinted at on Strayed In Shadows and blends it with sounds that should appeal to fans of Drab Majesty, House Of Harm, and later Paradise Lost; the spirit of the 80s animating a corpus borne of the present. The EP also expands upon the visual and thematic approach of its predecessor - that of being stuck in a dark and dystopian futuristic metropolis, where peril lurks around every corner - with cover artwork depicting the same figure in a setting catering to the lyrics. Link
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