SHORES OF NULL Unveils Live Video From HELLFEST 2024 "Darkness Won't Take Me"; Full Festival Set On THUNDERFLIX + New Album "The Loss of Beauty" Out Now!
This past summer, Italian melodic death-doom force Shores of Null performed a somber and poetic set at one of Europe's largest metal festivals Hellfest Open Air (Temple Stage) in Clisson, France. They captured the full set and have partnered up with Thunderflix to showcase the performance in its entirety.
Today, they unveil their third clip from the festival for fans to watch for the track "Darkness Won't Take Me" off their latest and fourth record “The Loss of Beauty” released on Spikerot Records during March 2023.
Vocalist Davide Straccione adds:
"This is the third and last excerpt made available on our YouTube Channel from one of the coolest experiences we had as a band so far. Hellfest was a blast, and we're happy to relive those moments sharing them with our fans."
Watch the live video for "Darkness Won't Take Me" at https://youtu.be/T2XSJi9klVE
The full set can be viewed on ThunderFlix, the world's premier on-demand video streaming service dedicated exclusively to heavy metal music HERE.
Music Video for "Darkness Won't Take Me" - https://youtu.be/zjY8Wztnq-k
Previous live clips from Hellfest 2024:
"A New Death Is Born" - https://youtu.be/Zw07Pvr5BsM
"My Darkest Years" - https://youtu.be/sRz1yFn-m9o
Hellfest 2024 Setlist:
intro: Transitory
1. Destination Woe
2. The Last Flower
3. Ruins Alive
4. Quiescent
5. Darkness Won’t Take Me
6. Nothing Left To Burn
7. My Darkest Years
8. A New Death Is Born
outro: Blazing Sunlight
Live Video Credits:
Live Sound Tech: Nikos Giagkoudakis
Video Recording: Sombrero & Co
Shores of Null's delivered a powerful performance at Hellfest in France this past summer as part of the band's extensive touring in support of their new album "The Loss of Beauty". This fourth album follows the acclaimed “Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)”, unanimously considered by fans and critics as one of the doom-metal gems of recent years. Both albums were recorded between 2019 and early 2020, and although "The Loss of Beauty" was initially conceived as the band’s third album, ‘Beyond The Shores’ took its place as it better reflected the doom and gloom sentiment of the 'annus horribilis' 2020.
Across 11 tracks (plus two bonus tracks), Shores Of Null once again submerges listeners with tempestuous and turbulent riffs. The band continues to hone its sound and take its melancholic dark metal to new heights by mastering an assorted palette of genres with inbred poignancy. The lyrics celebrate beauty in imperfection and transience and are meant to be an invitation to seek beauty in little things, especially those unexpected and ephemeral.
Dark and heavy, tinged with feelings of despair, “The Loss Of Beauty” was released on March 24th, 2023, and recommended for fans of Swallow The Sun, Borknagar, and Paradise Lost.
Music Video - The Last Flower - https://youtu.be/W_LV8-Mz8qA
Music Video - Darkness Won't Take Me - https://youtu.be/zjY8Wztnq-k
Album Stream:
YouTube - https://youtu.be/vWOcwJYjhq8
Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3ZckbMW
Album order (Digital, CD, Vinyl) - https://linktr.ee/thelossofbeauty
Track Listing:
1. Transitory - 1:20
2. Destination Woe - 4:52
3. The Last Flower - 4:59
4. Darkness Won't Take Me - 4:14
5. Nothing Left To Burn - 4:55
6. Old Scars - 4:23
7. The First Son - 2:17
8. A Nature In Disguise - 6:26
9. My Darkest Years - 4:56
10. Fading As One - 5:19
11. A New Death Is Born - 4:54
Album Length: 48:40
Bonus Tracks (CD and digital only)
12. Underwater Oddity - 4:18
13. Blazing Sunlight - 1:57
Shores Of Null is:
Davide Straccione - Vocals
Gabriele Giaccari - Guitars
Raffaele Colace - Guitars
Matteo Capozucca - Bass
Emiliano Cantiano - Drums
For more info: Spikerot.com | Shoresofnull.com
About: Shores of Null stand out from their contemporaries with their ability to blend seemingly disparate elements into their sound, overwhelmingly heavy and soothing at the same time: blackened aggression stands alongside gothic-doom sections without either sounding out of place. Their music can be both melancholic yet majestic, made of chorale-like guitar textures across the instrument’s entire range, sustained by a powerful rhythmic section and punctuated by a refined mixture of clean and growled vocals, along with extensive use of pleasing vocal harmonies which have become the band’s trademark through the years.
The Rome-based metal band has been an unwavering presence within the metal underground since their musical outset in 2013, churning out three impressive records: the melodic and somber “Quiescence” (Candlelight, 2014), the darker and more complex “Black Drapes For Tomorrow” (Candlelight/Spinefarm, 2017), and finally their most ambitious work to date “Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)” (Spikerot Records, 2020), a 38-minute long opus which continues to prove the band’s willingness to go off the beaten path while creating their ultimate doom manifesto.
The band’s fourth album "The Loss Of Beauty", recorded during the same sessions of “Beyond The Shores”, was released in March of 2023.
Metal Hammer writers' top metal albums of 2023 - Edwin McFee - #20 - Shores of Null - The Loss of Beauty
"Once again, Shores of Null continue to impress with yet another slab of high-quality doom/death that seems the quintet on an upwards trajectory. Their “Alice in Chains gone doom” recipe needs no repairing, thank you kindly, and while they’ve been around for nearly a decade, it’s still exciting to see where they go from here, because it still feels like The Loss of Beauty is hinting at even greater things to come. Add this to your overcast morning breakfast coffee moments, or your sunny afternoon chillout sessions." - Angry Metal Guy
"With The Loss of Beauty, Shores of Null have released a hot contender for my album of the year, which I can warmly recommend to every fan of melancholic metal with doom, gothic, melodic death and black metal influences! I give this masterpiece the highest grade!" - Soundmagnet Magazin
"I highly recommend spending a quiet hour listening to the record with headphones." - Powermetal.de
"It is a highly entertaining set of songs that comes together well nonetheless and leads to an emotional impact upon the listener. Fans of melancholic doom metal will find a lot to like here." - Metal Bite
"with this new work, the Shores Of Null have shown all their majestic talent: The Loss Of Beauty is an album that mixes evil and joy, clarity and impurity, melodies and distortions with extreme dexterity. An album that will attract you thanks to its enchanting idyllic and romantic scores but which will make you unleash as soon as the rough and atrocious parts come into play: a record capable of transporting the interlocutor into a mystical and fairy environment but simultaneously unhealthy and distressing. Nothing to add: listen to them and I'm sure you will have yourselves confirmed everything I said!" - Metal Wave
""The Loss Of Beauty" has not lost its beautiful melodies And it is exactly this mix that SHORES OF NULL keep to the end of the album... “The Loss Of Beauty” convinces by far Stretches through its refreshing heterogeneity. Straccione's very strong vocal performance does the rest." - Metal.de
"The Loss Of Beauty offers melancholic dark metal with a wide range of influences, from gothic metal to doom metal to melodic black/death metal. With frequent use of clean vocals and deep growls. A must for fans of Paradise Lost, Amorphis and Enslaved." - Metalogy
