℗ 2021 Season of Mist
Released | February 25, 2022 |
Duration | 57m 11s |
Record Label | Season of Mist |
Catalogue No. | SOM638DIG |
Genre | Metal (Doom) |
1.1
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Return to the Void
Shape of Despair |
9:13 | |||
1.2
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Dissolution
Shape of Despair |
8:59 | |||
1.3
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Solitary Downfall
Shape of Despair |
11:05 | |||
1.4
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Reflection in Slow Time
Shape of Despair |
8:08 | |||
1.5
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Forfeit
Shape of Despair |
7:59 | |||
1.6
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The Inner Desolation
Shape of Despair |
11:47 |
Finnish funeral doom icons Shape of Despair return from the wintry Nordic gloom on their new album, Return to the Void. Between the success of the majestically downtrodden Monotony Fields (2015) and today, the members of Shape of Despair have been composing (glacially) and otherwise ensconced writing/performing with their other projects like Finntroll, Impaled Nazarene, Throes of Dawn, and Counting Hours. The Finns have never been or found the need to be prolific, however. The race into the cold darkness is a contemplatively unhurried task. Return to the Void is musically and thematically that same journey, one of perpetual solitude and aching hopelessness, driven straight into the heart of frigid twilight. As ever, this is cheerless music for sunless days.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Season of Mist Studio Masters
Tracks 1-6 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-6 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.86 -1.00 to -0.68 | -12.85 -14.40 to -12.12 | -9.93 -10.30 to -9.40 | 7 6 to 7 | |
1 | Return to the Void | -0.78 | -12.12 | -9.4 | 6 |
2 | Dissolution | -0.94 | -12.48 | -9.8 | 7 |
3 | Solitary Downfall | -0.85 | -12.45 | -9.9 | 7 |
4 | Reflection in Slow Time | -0.68 | -12.61 | -10.1 | 7 |
5 | Forfeit | -0.88 | -13.03 | -10.1 | 7 |
6 | The Inner Desolation | -1.00 | -14.40 | -10.3 | 7 |