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German/Swedish Blackened Death Metal band, Shadows, have released their debut album, Miseria. Featuring former members of such notable acts as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous, the quartet now proudly presents nine songs of unrelenting misanthropy.

Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here. The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating, yet also melodic and solemn.

Purchase/Stream Miseria:

shadows-official-cult.bandcamp.com/album/miseria

tidal.com/album/442668800

open.spotify.com/album/0856fqYQvPh3rI3hLB80Fb

music.apple.com/us/album/miseria/1821204540

deezer.com/us/album/774012671

Track Listing:

1. As Above So Below [Video]

2. Lamia [Video]

3. Delivered From Sin [Video]

4. Nadir (No Consent)

5. Spring Sleepwalker

6. A Seance

7. Mässa XCIV

8. Cycles

9. Unnamed Sorrow

Album Credits:

Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.

Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.

Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.

Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.

Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.

Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.

Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.

Line-up:

Dejan Milenkovits – Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden – Guitars
Andreas Holm – Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums

BIO:

Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album. 

The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.

In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.

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Source: ClawHammer PR

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