In the Passing Light of Day

by Pain of Salvation

In the Passing Light of Day cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 January 2017
  • Label: InsideOut
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:11:49
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Daniel Gildenlöw, Peter Kvint, Camilla Arvidsson, Ragnar Zolberg, Gustaf Hielm, Daniel Bergstrand, Leo Margarit, Daniel Karlsson, Hålfdan Árnason, Anette Kumlin, David Ra-Champari

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Written in the direct aftermath of frontman Daniel Gildenlöw's near-fatal battle with a flesh-eating bacterial infection, the Swedish veterans deliver a harrowing, deeply emotional concept album. The record completely abandons the softer acoustic rock of their previous releases to return to complex, crushing progressive metal. It serves as an incredibly intense, cathartic meditation on mortality and survival.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, existential, progressive, conceptual, complex, melodic, death

Tracklist

  1. On a Tuesday (10:22)
  2. Tongue of God (4:53)
  3. Meaningless (4:47)
  4. Silent Gold (3:23)
  5. Full Throttle Tribe (9:05)
  6. Reasons (4:45)
  7. Angels of Broken Things (6:24)
  8. The Taming of a Beast (6:33)
  9. If This Is the End (6:03)
  10. The Passing Light of Day (15:31)

Credits

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