While Heaven Wept - Suspended at Aphelion

Δισκογραφική επιστροφή το φθινόπωρο για τους While Heaven Wept. Τρία χρόνια μετά το (καλό αλλά κατώτερο των προηγούμενων) "Fear of Infinity" η Αμερικάνικη υπερμπάντα θα κυκλοφορήσει στα τέλη Οκτωβρίου το "Suspended at Aphelion" μέσω της Nuclear Blast...

Band: While Heaven Wept
Album: "Suspended at Aphelion"
Type: Full length
EU release date: 24 October 2014
North America release date: 27 October 2014
Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: LP, CD, Digital

Track listing:
01. I: Introspectus
02. II: Icarus and I
03. III: Ardor
04. IV: Heartbust
05. V: Indifference Turned Paralysis
06. VI: The Memory of Bleeding
07. VII: Souls in Permafrost
08. VIII: Searching the Stars
09. IX: Reminescence of Strangers
10. X: Lifelines Lost
11. XI: Restrospectus

"Suspended at Aphelion" was recorded at Aseembly Line Studios by Kevin Gutierrez.
The cover art for "Suspended At Aphelion" was once again created by Gustavo Sazes.

Tom Phillips: «While most of our albums have been thematic, this is the first time we've released something entirely of a conceptual nature in the grand tradition of PINK FLOYD, GENESIS, RUSH, MARILLION, IRON MAIDEN, KING DIAMOND, QUEENSRYCHE, and of course FATES WARNING... and musically, this album falls somewhere in the middle of all of that with a touch of Viking-era BATHORY as well.

We've always been characterized by emotional sincerity, bombast, sweeping melodies, and dense orchestration, and "Suspended At Aphelion" is no exception - however, this really is another level for us in that it's the first album featuring all-new material composed in this decade (as opposed to previous releases which often culled from years of archival material), it's full of twists, turns, modulations, time changes, harmonic content rarely heard in metal, and tons of counterpoint.

This is all augmented by actual cellos, violins, classical guitars, an array of percussion, and genuine analog synths.

Over the last few years, we've had some audiophiles reaching out to us regarding the "loudness wars", so we were very much committed to delivering an album with a wide dynamic range, with very little peak reduction or compression... insuring it was as dynamic and organic as possible versus being Pro-Tooled to death or overtly compressed/limited for loudness... not unlike our labelmates SATYRICON, who definitely impacted our approach to "Suspended At Aphelion"... so you may have to turn it up compared to "X album" from 2014, but we feel like this epic journey is even more gratifying because of this.»