Swedish Black/Death Metal band Tribulation isn’t a band that I ever found very appealing to my musical pallet. They are absolutely amazing players but that is always a tough genre for me. When I heard from a friend that former guitarist Jonathan Hulten was releasing a new solo album that was a sort of dark folk/death gospel thing, I was all over it. The album is absolutely fantastic combining elements of Chelsea Wolfe, Nick Drake, ’70s era prog rock, and at times even a hint of David Gilmour in his vocal delivery. Don’t worry, review is coming soon but for now, this is what was said about Eyes of the Living Night.
Building on the haunting beauty of his 2020 debut album Chants From Another Place, Swedish songwriter Jonathan Hultén returns with his highly-anticipated follow up Eyes Of The Living Night, set for release on January 31, 2025.
Recorded at Stockholm’s Chanting Studios and co-produced with Ola Ersfjord (Lady Blackbird/Tribulation/Monolord), the new album Eyes Of The Living Night is a remarkable showcase of Hultén’s distinctive blend of folk, rock and pop, drawing influence from the likes of Bert Jansch, John Martyn and Nick Drake as well as contemporaries such as Anna Ternheim, Chelsea Wolfe and Hexvessel.
Eyes of the Living Night delves deep into the human spirit. Merging the raw emotion of his earlier work with a more expansive, otherworldly sound, Hultén has created an album that shimmers, taking listeners through the decades of rock, synth-pop, blues and folk on a journey best described as “Ambient Dream-grunge”.
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