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Mourn the Light Premiere “When the Fear Subsides” Video

Posted in Bootleg Theater on May 18th, 2021 by JJ Koczan

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Connecticut metallurgical specialists Mourn the Light will release their debut album, Suffer, Then We’re Gone, later this year through Argonauta Records. Preorders start today from the label, and below you can see the video premiere of “When the Fear Subsides,” chosen as the first single from the record. Like the band itself, it is refreshingly without pretense. It features the five-piece on stage — at Altone’s Music Hall in Jewett City, CT, which also happens to host the New England Stoner and Doom Fest, which was co-founded by Mourn the Light guitarist/backing vocalist Dwayne Eldredge — diligently delivering the track as they might on any given evening in an alternate reality where such things happened. “When the Fear Subsides” was in fact posted by Mourn the Light as a single last Fall, and fair enough since the record was tracked last summer and isn’t coming out until at least this one. A year’s a long time for a band to sit on a debut release when they can’t play shows. The track “Blink of an Eye,” which appears on Suffer, Then We’re Gone, also showed up earlier in 2020.

As for the album, it runs a working-man’s 54 minutes (bonus track included), and filters classic metal of varying eras — there’s NWOBHM shred in Mourn the Light Suffer Then Were Gone“Take Your Pain Away,” but I’d be deeply surprised to find out that no one in the lineup of Eldredge, vocalist, Andrew Stachelek, guitarist Kieran Beaty, bassist Bill Herrick and drummer/video-director Kyle Hebner is a Life of Agony fan — and as the opening track, “When the Fear Subsides” sets the tone thematically as well as sonically for the rest of what follows, full and crisp in its sound, but duly thick to be strung through a doomier filter, but not shy about throwing in the odd acoustic part or keyboard flourish — neither is out of place in the leadoff. “I Bare the Scars” and “Take Your Pain Away” answer back with due vitality and Suffer, Then We’re Gone redoes the opener of the band’s 2018 EP, Weight of the World, in “End of Times (2020 Version)” before digging into the broader-reaching centerpiece “Suffer, Then You’re Gone,” a gentler start referring back to the more subdued stretches of “When the Fear Subsides,” before slower tempos and harsh screaming vocals take hold and play back and forth with a more chugging progression.

Another subdued stretch bookends and “Refuse to Fall” kicks in with what might be the most purely classic metal riff on the album, worthy of its determined, fist-in-the-air lyric, where “Progeny of Pain” brings its own Priestism to a jabbing resolution that feels like it’s about to fall of the rails before turning back to the more forward gallop. “Wisdom Bestowed” is more epic in structure — acoustics and keys return — and there’s a vocal interplay happening as it heads toward the midsection that’s a standout as they push the dynamic into back-and-forths before capping with due vigor, letting the bonus track serve as an epilogue whose melodic richness is its own excuse for the inclusion, despite pulling back from the structure of Suffer, Then We’re Gone in the sense of how Mourn the Light have organized the album with “When the Fear Subsides,” “Suffer, Then You’re Gone,” and “Wisdom Bestowed” as landmarks. One way or the other, they are not lacking for impact, be it in melody or otherwise, on this initial full-length offering.

But, since “When the Fear Subsides” is the first of those landmarks, it makes all the more sense that it should be the first impression of Suffer, Then We’re Gone to hit public consciousness. Accordingly, here’s the video.

Enjoy:

Mourn the Light, “When the Fear Subsides” official video premiere

 

The first track from the 2021 full length album “Suffer, Then We’re Gone” by Mourn the Light on Argonauta Records.

Video directed by Kyle Hebner and Dwayne Eldredge
Video shot by Kyle Hebner and Daniel Jackson
Video Editing by Kyle Hebner
Filmed at Altone’s Music Hall in Jewett City, CT

When the Fear Subsides was recorded at Studio Wormwood in Mansfield, CT
Produced, Mixed, and Engineered by Dave Kaminsky
Mastered by Ryan Williams at Augmented Audio in LA

Guest Appearance on Keyboards by Alex Newton (Dzo-nga, Wake of Sirens)

Mourn the Light is:
Andrew Stachelek – Vocals
Dwayne Eldredge – Guitars
Kieran Beaty – Guitars
Bill Herrick – Bass
Kyle Hebner – Drums

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Mourn the Light Announce Suffer, Then We’re Gone to be Released on Argonauta

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 14th, 2021 by JJ Koczan

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The title of the forthcoming full-length debut from Connecticut traditionalist doom metallers Mourn the Light reminds me of something my dear mother used to tell me. She said: “Life sucks then you die.” Suffer, Then We’re Gone, which the five-piece will issue through Argonauta Records, would seem to carry much the same spirit in its general perspective, and fair enough. The band released their split with Oxblood Forge (review here) in 2019 and followed in 2020 by posting a couple tracks that, like the forthcoming long-player, were recorded by Dave Kaminsky at Studio Wormwood in Mansfield, CT. Whether or not they’ll feature on the album, I don’t know, but they’re on Bandcamp for the time being and you can hear one of the two — “When the Fear Subsides” — at the bottom of this post.

It’s the kind of doom that makes you say “doom on,” so yeah, do that.

From the PR wire:

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MOURN THE LIGHT Sign To Argonauta Records And Share First Teaser From Upcoming Album

US heavy doomsters MOURN THE LIGHT have inked a worldwide record deal with Italy’s powerhouse label Argonauta Records, who will proudly release the band’s first full-length album during 2021.

MOURN THE LIGHT was formed in early 2018 by Dwayne Eldredge, co-founder of The New England Stoner and Doom Festival. Driven by his passion for thunderous, traditional doom metal mixed with lofty progressive metal leanings, Dwayne was hell-bent on creating a band that could sonically push a message of hope in spite of despair.

Following on their highly acclaimed 2019- debut EP, touring the US and Canada including festival appearances at Stoner Jam 19 (during SXSW) or the second New England Stoner and Doom Festival, MOURN THE LIGHT returned to the studio to record their first album. Entitled Suffer, Then We’re Gone, the band’s debut album has a plethora of influences showcased, yet made all their own. At one moment, MOURN THE LIGHT delivers crushingly massive riffs, only to jump at the next turn, galloping along with shades of classic power metal taking hold and leading the way — all the while focused on incredibly memorable songs, with catchy hooks and sing-along choruses.

Suffer, Then We’re Gone features nine epic yet heavy as hell tracks, recorded by Dave Kaminsky at Studio Wormwood, and will most likely see MOURN THE LIGHT step out as one of North America’s best kept underground secrets, showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon…

“Our debut album “Suffer, Then We’re Gone” is the culmination of hard work and determination to create something meaningful and special to us.” Says guitarist Dwayne Eldredge. “We have grown as a band so much over the last couple years and we think it really shows in our latest work. We are a metal family working together on our heavy metal legacy and we are proud to be working with Gero and Argonauta Records. We can’t wait to see what the future holds. Looking forward to getting out on the stage again soon….”

So better buckle up, take a ride with MOURN THE LIGHT, and stay tuned for many more album details to be revealed in the weeks ahead!

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Mourn the Light, “When the Fear Subsides”

Mourn the Light, Suffer, Then We’re Gone teaser

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