Debut album from Norwegian doom act Sunswitch. 

Trond Frønes - bass
Kristoffer Lo - tuba
Tomas Järmyr - drums

Somewhere between doom metal and gloomy post-rock Trond, Kristoffer and Tomas set out to create somethings very different and distinctive you won´t have heard before. Surging bass guitars, distorted layers of tuba and unpredictably heavy drums become sounds so full of haunted bass frequencies that neither body nor soul is left unharmed.  

Sunswitch release their debut album in October 2012 through Norwegian indie label Riot Factory. Mixing and mastering is done by Magnus Lindberg, known from the Swedish band Cult Of Luna. Lindberg has also worked with musical heroes such as Switchblade, Refused and Totalt Jävla Mörker.

SUNSWITCH - Another Avenue

A collaboration with poet/musician Heather Wastie in response to a piece of medieval chant, one of the seven great "O Antiphons" for the week leading up to Christmas, thought to date back to the 8th or 9th century. Heather sang the melody as low in her register as she could and as slowly as possible whilst maintaining the phrasing. She then composed a second melody to merge with the sustained tuba notes.

The artwork is by Alison Sabedoria who introduced Heather to this music. Here is her translation of the Latin text:

O Dawn,
splendour of eternal light,
and sun of justice,
come, and shine on those
seated in darkness,
and in the shadow of death

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Heather Wastie - https://soundcloud.com/heatherwastie

Oriens

The doom tuba sound of Sam Underwood.

“The music David Lynch would use if he was doing a Hovis advert.” – Mark Fell

Support this project over on Bandcamp: https://oretubadoom.bandcamp.com/

(formerly a duo featuring Stuart Estell - including many of the tracks in this Soundcloud)

Oriens

ORE [tuba doom]

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