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Dutch atmospheric black metal act Shylmagoghnar has announced its third studio album, Convergence, for a release on 10 November through Napalm Records. A music video for the first album single, "Follow The River", is available in the player below.
What started as a duo in 2004 has turned into a one-man band, yet the upcoming new album sees Shylmagoghnar returning heavier and stronger than before. Shylmagoghnar is still a home-produced project run by multi-instrumentalist and founding band member Nimblkorg. Convergence picks up right where both previous albums left off since is intended as the ending instalment of a trilogy-in-spirit. While its predecessors, the much-acclaimed Emergence (2014) and Transience (2018), invited the listener on a journey through human existence, time and space, Convergence marks the inward journey of death that one has to go through before being able to pass on. While the album's protagonist is dying and lyrics describe the emotional, philosophical and psychedelic journey he is undertaking, the new Shylmagoghnar offering is also an allegory for learning to let go of positive and negative themes of the past that hold us back from moving on, and eventually, hopefully reaching inner peace.
As the first album single, "Follow The River ", showcases, musically, Shylmagoghnar delivers the perfect soundtrack to that journey, where raw heaviness meets pure elegy, and destruction gives way to harmony.
Nimblkorg comments: "Dear listeners, friends, family, finally I get to break the silence on Shylmagoghnar's upcoming third album, Convergence. On a journey of death, the protagonist awakens in a surreal world. Are the things he is seeing real, or merely the machinations of a dying brain? It doesn't matter now. All that he knows is that he must follow the river".
Both inside and outside of the music, Shylmagoghnar has always been a path with a will of its own for the Southern Netherlands-based Nimblkorg, who produces and records all of the music on his own. Once again, almost half of the album is instrumental, as Nimblkorg agrees with a significant part of his fan base in that words can distract from the enjoyment of the music. The band mastermind also wishes to motivate other artists not to be afraid of home production. But what is immediately evident is that it marks the deepest and most personal Shylmagoghnar record to date, as Nimblkorg dedicated it to his late mother.
Convergence is a stirring, emotional and deep journey - never afraid of genre borders and always balanced between the light and dark, the beauty and horror, life and death. Some bands need countless records and members to create a masterpiece - Shylmagoghnar already unleashed it with album number three, one that will ultimately establish this one-man show as one of the most enthralling acts in extreme music! Link
Convergence tracklist:
01. I Hear the Mountain Weep
02. Follow the River
03. Threshold
04. Strata
05. Gardens of the Erased
06. Egregore
07. Infinion
08. Convergence
09. The Sea
10. Becoming
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