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| The Inheritance | |
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| Album info | |
| Release | July 26, 2013 |
| Recorded | Unisound Recording Studios, Örebro, Sweden |
| Genre | Progressive metal, melodic death metal |
| Length | 43:34 |
| Label | Century Media |
| Producer | Dan Swanö |
The Inheritance is a debut studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Witherscape. It was released on July 26, 2013 through Century Media Records.
Album information[]
Dan Swanö has this to say about the Witherscape album on blabbermouth.net:
"'Dead For A Day' is one of those songs that just wrote itself. I was strumming on the acoustic guitar one morning and it just poured out of my fingers
"At first, I had no idea what to do with the song since I felt it was perhaps a bit too commercial for Witherscape, but after I played the demo to Ragnar, he insisted that it must be on the album!"
"I love how the song moves between the mellow verses à la Crimson and II to the more brutal, yet melodic chorus, in the tradition of "Uncreation" and "Twilight" through the groovy but 'undanceable' 9/8 section that leads to one of Ragnar's best guitar leads of the album."
The Inheritance is a pretty thick concept album split into different episodes and very briefly, the Witherscape story takes place in a remote village in northern Sweden in the late 1800's. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family he's informed by the family lawyer that he has inherited a large estate up north. Having been oblivious to the estate's existence, he decides to investigate, and once he's there "all kinds of weird shit happens,"
Dan Swanö stated the concept of the Witherscape album:
"Both me and Ragnar are fascinated by old, abandoned buildings and it was pretty clear from the start that we would have the estate our main character inherits on the albumcover. We used Travis Smith as a 'medium' for our visual ideas and he did a spectacular job transforming our written wishes into a real image."
Track listing[]
| # | Track title | Length |
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| 1. | "Mother of the Soul" | 5:39 |
| 2. | "Astrid Falls" | 6:56 |
| 3. | "Dead for a Day" | 4:35 |
| 4. | "Dying for the Sun" | 6:14 |
| 5. | "To the Calling of Blood and Dreams" | 4:36 |
| 6. | "The Math of the Myth" | 3:52 |
| 7. | "Crawling from Validity" | 4:11 |
| 8. | "The Wedlock Observation" | 6:13 |
| 9. | "The Inheritance" | 1:18 |
Personnel[]
- Witherscape
- Ragnar Widerberg - Guitars, Bass
- Dan Swanö - Vocals, Keyboards, Drums
- Additional musicians
- Joel Selsfors - Moog Synthesizer on 'Dying for the Sun"
- Morten Møller Jørgensen - Additional Vocals on "The Wedlock Observation"
- Eddie Risdal - Additional Vocals on "Astrid Falls", "The Wedlock Observation"
- Paul Kuhr - Additional Vocals on "Dying for the Sun", "The Wedlock Observation"
- Production
- Ragnar Widerberg - Logo
- Paul Kuhr - Lyrics
- Dan Swanö - Mixing, Mastering
- Travis Smith - Cover art
- Russell Garwood - Editing