WINTER · Into Darkness | WHITE TAPE

White music cassette. Reissue edition.

Background information about 'Into Darkness'

When Winter unleashed "Into Darkness" in 1990, they didn't just craft an album – they carved out a monument to despair that would echo through the decades. This isn't your typical doom metal affair; it's a glacial descent into the abyss that moves at the speed of continental drift, each riff a tectonic shift in heavy music. The New York trio understood that true heaviness isn't about speed or aggression – it's about weight, about the crushing inevitability of darkness itself.

From the opening dirge of "Oppression Freedom" to the title track's final, suffocating notes, Winter creates an atmosphere so thick you could cut it with a knife. The production is deliberately murky, like listening to the earth's final groans through layers of permafrost. Stephen Flam's guitar work doesn't just play riffs – it excavates them from some primordial sludge, while the rhythm section pounds like the heartbeat of a dying giant. This reissue on Svart Records ensures that new generations can experience this masterpiece of funeral doom in all its analog glory.

For fans of:
Thergothon, Skepticism, Evoken, Unholy, Disembowelment

Track listing

A1. Oppression Freedom
A2. Oppression (Reprise)
A3. Servants Of The Warsmen
A4. Goden
B1. Power And Might
B2. Destiny
B3. Eternal Frost
B4. Into Darkness

Manufacturer: Oy Svart Musik Ab, Saippua Center, Ruissalontie 12C, laituri O, 20200 Turku, Finland, Contact: www.svartrecords.com