Umbra Vitae - Shadow Of Life

Umbra Vitae - Shadow Of LifeLimited colored vinyl LP pressing. Shadow of Life is the ten song debut album from Umbra Vitae, recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios. Guitars and bass were recorded by Mike McKenzie at The Black Coast. The album was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Intro "Decadence Dissolves" is a Schuldiner esque calm before the storm. "Ethereal Emptiness" and "Atheist Aesthetic" soon rip everything apart, methodically downshifting from

Discovering sheared an interest in vacant park benches

The lyrics of "World What World"s songs all imply a protagonist on a quest

The hurried energy of the environment provided a backdrop for the daily trip

a softness Murphy has come to call "romancing the psyche

an ALMA Award

AKA Chasms makes deeply personal work that has always felt like an unveiling

" "True Love Tends to Forget

Each track of Secret Passage

This powerhouse of an album opens with the adrenaline-charged “Emergency” and doesn’t let up

Their breakthrough hit "Sweet Home Alabama" helped them to increase the reach of the guitar driven southern rock sound

portraying the last album and video series as mere fiction while thrusting the band into a "real world" slaying

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