WITHERSCAPE, the new dark metal outfit formed by Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Dan Swanö, together with fellow Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ragnar Widerberg, will be releasing their debut album, The Inheritance on July 29th in Europe and August 6th in North America via Century Media Records.

The Inheritance 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'

'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.

The hauntingly beautiful cover artwork for The Inheritance, which can be seen above, was created by Travis Smith / Seempieces, who has worked with bands like OPETH, NEVERMORE, DEATH and KATATONIA.

Swanö comments on the artwork: "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."

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 details on Witherscape’s The Inheritance, which will be released as limited edition Mediabook format (with bonustracks), standard CD, limited LP and Digital Download, will be revealed in the coming weeks.

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