Atmospheric doom artist Darkher will release her debut full-length LP, Realms, on August 19 via Prophecy Productions. Darkher's first release, 2014's The Kingdom Field EP, epitomized her broodingly intense music and created a stir across scenes, being hailed as "beautiful, teeth-edging horror" and "utterly brilliant". Her debut album, Realms, impressively proves that the fire of great expectations raised by the EP's spark were more than justified.
Darkher is an intriguing, haunting trip through the mind and spirit of UK artist Jayn H. Wissenberg, a charismatic West Yorkshire-based vocalist / songwriter whose powerful, captivating music is characterized by slowly building storm clouds of guitars and haunting, spine-tingling vocals. Creating extraordinarily dark music full of contrasts, including both chilling loneliness and the warmth of hope, the sound of Darkher is veined by both an unsettling atmosphere of encroaching dread and a deep, otherworldly confidence.
Realms features nine distinctive, dynamic and dramatic tracks that are impossible to resist. Songs such as the sternly imploring "Moths", the driving "Wars", with its signature drum march, or the sinister, unfathomable "Buried" or "Foregone" may be mentioned as cornerstones of an album that, due to its quality and diversity, bears the potential earmarks of a future classic. Lyrically, Realms mirrors the ominous, awe-inspiring character of the music; the tales on the album lie somewhere between this sphere and the unseen worlds before and beyond. Darkher songs reveal Wissenberg's relationship with fear, death and spirituality, and question how love can connect souls from past, present and future.
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"At times, I witnessed happenings," Wissenberg points out with respect to the title. "Amidst the immense sadness brought upon by grief, these signs were both uplifting and magical, and this compounded my belief in other "Realms".
"Realms" Track Listing:
1.) Spirit Walker
2.) Hollow Veil
3.) Moths
4.) Wars
5.) The Dawn Brings A Saviour
6.) Buried (Part 1)
7.) Buried (Part 2)
8.) Foregone
9.) Lament
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