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Jyväskylä, Finland (2000 – present)

The idea of Swallow the Sun was formed in Jyväskylä, Finland in spring 2000 by Juha Raivio. He had few songs that didn’t fit the style of his band at the time, Plutonium Orange. Pasi Pasanen was playing drums in Plutonium Orange at the time, so Juha started rehearsing the songs with him. In 2001 they started to look for people to play with - the first one to join the line-up was Markus Jämsen, whom Pasanen and Raivio already knew from their earlier projects. After Jämsen, along came Mikko Kotamäki from Funeris Nocturnum as the bassist/vocalist. Later on they decided that the band needed keyboards and a dedicated bassist, so they turned to Funeris Nocturnum, from where they got Aleksi Munter on keyboards and Matti Honkonen on bass, and the line-up was complete.

The recordings of the 4-song demo ‘Out of This Gloomy Light’ took place in January 2003 at Sam’s Workshop, and resulted soon in a record deal with Firebox Records. The recordings of their first full-length album started in late July 2003 at the same studio the demo was recorded, and it was released in November. It immediately got huge press in Finland and loads of appraising reviews. Swallow the Sun was selected as the Newcomer of the Year 2003 in Inferno-magazine’s (the 2nd biggest music magazine in Finland) poll, and was third in the same series in Finnish Metal Awards 2003. Kerrang! called Swallow the Sun “One of doom metals finest moments to date” and gave the album 5/5 K’s.

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doom metal, death metal, death doom metal, finnish, metal
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1	Hope full track	690
2	These Hours of Despair full track	640
3	Through Her Silvery Body full track	576
4	Out of This Gloomy Light full track	573
5	Too Cold For Tears full track	515
6	Don't Fall Asleep (Horror Pt. 2) full track	504
7	No Light, No Hope full track	478
8	Under the Waves full track	476
9	The Justice of Suffering full track	466
10	Swallow full track	434
11	Doomed to Walk the Earth full track	427
12	Hold This Woe full track	370
13	The Empty Skies full track	367
14	These Low Lands	335
15	The Giant	331

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GenesisRisen wrote:
1 hour ago

"sludge is pretty slow and it's definitely not doom." ...well sludge is a mix of doom metal and hardcore, so it's not really the best example. And no, being slow doesn't necessarily make something doom metal, but Swallow the Sun is doom metal.

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Mar_Sexx_669 wrote:
2 hours ago

for me its american r'n'b with traces of blues music

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Synteni wrote:
4 hours ago

Any slow metal should really not be considered as doom metal. That would make the genre-debates more pointless than they already are.

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locustspawning wrote:
4 hours ago

Not necessarily, sludge is pretty slow and it's definitely not doom.

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Metavoid_ wrote:
7 hours ago

any slow metal = doom metal, you fucking moron

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immax wrote:
Saturday morning

For me it's slow melodic death metal with traces of doom all right. =)

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Mar_Sexx_669 wrote:
Saturday morning

melodic death? LOL

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GenesisRisen wrote:
yesterday evening

This is doom way before it's melodic death.

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immax wrote:
yesterday afternoon

2 Cr3tyl moar like good melodic death metal band imo :q

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Cr3tyl wrote:
yesterday morning

Best doom metal band imo :P

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GenesisRisen wrote:
yesterday morning

Hopefully going to see these guys with Daylight Dies. Fucking stoked as shit.

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Mar_Sexx_669 wrote:
Wednesday evening

i'm in <3

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Re-Inanimate wrote:
Wednesday morning

Just started listening to these guys, great stuff.

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Pruitania wrote:
Monday afternoon

Love Swallow the Sun! \o/

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cadannib wrote:
last week

cool band !!!

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Mar_Sexx_669 wrote:
last week

These Low Lands is so much better with STS! the original version is so.... boring!

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Banarama wrote:
last week

The group for all fans of Rapture.

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BodyOfClay wrote:
last week

The Justice of Suffering <3 Gotta love Jonassss.

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Schmusebaerchi wrote:
last week

-Finnish Rock League

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GenesisRisen wrote:
last week

These Low Lands is an amazing song. It's really odd considering it's a cover, but it really feels like a StS song...Joutsen's vocals included.

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