...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

ARTIST: ...And Oceans
TITLE: As In Gardens, So In Tombs
LABEL: Season Of Mist
CAT: SOM668
TYPE: Vinyl
FORMAT: 2xVinyl, LP, Album
COUNTRY: USA, Canada & Europe
RELEASED: 2023-01-27

GENRE: Rock
STYLES: Black Metal, Symphonic Metal

MEDIA: Mint (M)
SLEEVE: Mint (M)

TRACKLIST:
A1 As In Gardens, So In Tombs
A2 The Collector And His Construct
A3 Within Fire And Crystal
A4 Carried On Lead Wings
B1 Likt Törnen Genom Kött
B2 Cloud Heads
B3 Wine Into Water
C1 Inverse Magnification Matrix
C2 The Earth Canvas
C3 Ambivalent God
D1 Samlarens Valv
D2 Third Eye Catalyst



COMMENTS:

Black 12" double vinyl including bonus tracks "Samlarens Valv" and "Third Eye Catalyst" (33rpm). Comes in gatefold sleeve with double sided poster (60 x 90cm). First pressing: 800 copies worldwide.

It’s rare for a band to commandingly return with their best effort to date, and yet that’s what And Oceans achieved in 2020 with ‘Cosmic World Mother’, their first full-length in 18 years. This comeback album was the sound of creative floodgates bursting through into a new body of water - an ocean if you will.
Blistering symphonic black metal, heady themes that dealt with the connection between philosophy and psychics, and the Finns’ trademark adventurous songwriting: everything that ‘Cosmic World Mother’ did well, new opus ‘As In Gardens, So In Tombs’ manages to eclipse and recontextualize. It’s the sound of a band seizing every ounce of momentum and upping the ante in every way.
While And Oceans has never written the same album twice, in many ways ‘As In Gardens, So In Tombs’ sounds like an opportunity for the band to pick up and improve upon what they started. Symphonic black metal is never this fun, free, and fantastic.

For fans of EMPEROR, LIMBONIC ART, THE KOVENANT, (early) DIMMU BORGIR.
Artwork by Adrien Bousson.

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