Style: atmospheric black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: loneliness, isolation, self discovery thorough suffering, the grandeur of things beyond our control
Thoughts: Calm across the water. Stars reflect their light across it's empty surface. My boat feels nothing but the gentle sway of the waves, what little there are. The calm is but an illusion, for this water carries in it a ferocity that none can withstand.
Sunken's second album is much like that water. Moments of extreme calm interrupted by moments of extreme music. A piano will give the music it's introduction, a deep and contemplative melody emanates from my speakers. Without warning this calm is broken by blast beats, fast riffs and lengthy passages of distortion and screeched vocals.
The harsh sections of the music provide their own sort of meditation. The constant blast beats intermixed with furious riffing offer a type of hypnotic sway to them that is not found in the quieter moments, lending the music to more than one type of contemplation. Regardless of what type of music the band offers at any given moment, Livslede is an album that encourages the listener to take moments of reflection, to reevaluate life as it is. These moments are the ones where true change can happen.
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