INVER – “On This Earth” Album Details

“…we all get lost…”

There was a plan once…and a path, a sure place to set my feet. Yet between one breath and the next I slipped into the smoke, through the mirror and into the twilight shadows, to the grey places beside the still, deep waters. The outlines became fluid and the forms deceptive, my dreams floated free from my heart and hung in all their desperate colours in the darkness, exposed to rain and ridicule. The way home and the way to the grave entwined like serpents and poison-tongued sirens sang sublime accusations and beautiful condemnation from the branches of screaming trees along the way. My compass was broken and every face was a mask upon a mask behind a cowl.

Like the beguiling tune of a melancholy piper, On This Earth, the debut album from Inver will lead you from the light, down a spiral staircase of introspection, into your deepest inner caverns. By drawing the richly textured emotional power of gothic metal and rock into a dark embrace and whispering synth touched secrets into the spaces in between; by taking an elegant electronic artifice and infusing it with a flawed humanity, all the strengths and frailties of the heart , this new creative collective have fashioned a measured magic of understated yet overwhelming power. Beginning with the immediate, urgent melodies of ‘Truth’ this album will carry you along black streams of winding, meandering guitar leads, through bleak valleys, beneath cloud shrouded skies. Through the quiet despair of new single ‘Tarnished Son’ to the sombre anthem of ‘Tempestarius’, the stark poetry of the lyrics bleeds into the music, invoking a spirit both ethereal and human, a haunting presence that teaches an acceptance of the dark paths that fate has assigned us. While painted in morose shades, a driving energy burns at the core of these songs, never allowing them to settle and unravel. There are harsh, serrated edges within the enveloping mists of songs like ‘We All Get Lost’ that belie any suggestion that On This Earth is a gentle gothic dream. The members of Inver come from the diverse backgrounds of extreme metal, alternative acoustic and traditional folk and elements of all these disparate musical worlds can be found lurking within the stygian gloom of On This Earth, making for a truly unique listening experience.

When it is released on January 19th, On This Earth will offer something both bleak and beautiful, a new pathway for a new year, a journey into different territories, a challenge and a chance for redemption. While swathed in illusion, INVER’s music holds a powerful sense of honesty at its core, a truth as raw as exposed nerves. Layer upon layer of its bewitching sound is revealed as you explore, each one delivering everything you might expect and so much you would never have imagined.

“…we die in silence…”