WITHERSCAPE, the new dark metal outfit formed by Dan Swanö and fellow Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ragnar Widerberg, released their debut album, The Inheritance, out on July 29th in Europe.

In the footage below, Dan Swanö explains the CD enhancement of The Inheritance. Some of you have wondered why there are two versions of the mix available - here's the explanation:

The album will be available on August 6th in North America via Century Media Records.

The Inheritance standard CD tracklisting:

'Mother Of The Soul'

'Astrid Falls'

'Dead For A Day'

'Dying For The Sun'

'To The Calling Of Blood And Dreams'

'The Math Of The Myth'

'Crawling From Validity'

'The Wedlock Observation'

'The Inheritance'

Additionally to the standard jewel case CD and the digital download version, The Inheritance will also be available as limited edition Mediabook CD including two special bonus tracks as well extended artwork with a 32-pages booklet featuring the full shortstory concept for this album and also as LP (plus full album on CD as bonus). The two bonus tracks cover versions are the following:

'Last Rose Of Summer' (JUDAS PRIEST cover)

'A Cry For Everyone' (GENTLE GIANT cover)

'Dead For A Day' lyric video:

'Astrid Falls':

"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…", according to Dan Swanö.

Witherscape marks the long overdue return as active composer and recording artist for Dan Swanö in the world of extreme metal, after having mostly been involved on the studio mixing end of things in these past years. Granted, The Inheritance is not purely a death metal release, but it smoothly showcases both the heavier and the mellow sides of Swanö’s creativity and should consequently not only please fans of his earlier efforts like Moontower or the EDGE OF SANITY catalogue, but also attract friends of progressively atmospheric contemporary metal in the vein of Opeth, Katatonia or AMORPHIS.

Witherscape lineup:

Dan Swanö - Vocals, Drums and Keyboards

Ragnar Widerberg - Guitars and Bass

More on Witherscape at this location.