The Eternal Resonance

Sweven

Morbus Chron frontman doubles down on the weird experimental angle

Official Description

Out of Stockholm / Sweden comes SWEVEN, named after Morbus Chron’s final record. Founder Robert Andersson, previously the main songwriter of Morbus Chron, comments: ”Sweven was a record you shaped like any other, but it also ended up shaping me and my goals with music. It came to mean a lot of things personally. So when the time was ripe to form a new band and continue the journey, there were no other names even considered.”

My Thoughts

There is a undercurrent (sub genre? movement?) of ostensible black metal bands doing weird things with their music. Avant-garde things, experimental things. In my head, there is this cluster of bands like Oranssi Pazuzu, Krallice, Liturgy, and Thy Catafalque.

I would put Sweven solidly in that category, and this album is at the top of a lot of people’s end of year lists for a reason.

Could it be true? Could I actually like a prog-metal album? An arguably tech-death prog-metal album? It’s a Christmas miracle.