Snow is falling outside the window right now, even as the Ides of March is approaching. Many believe that autumn is the dreariest time of the year, and perhaps it is, based on the foreboding it brings for what’s to come.
Those who live closer to the Arctic Circle than the Equator know exactly what this means. The winter months are long and thoroughly depressing. It is fitting then, that Canada’s Longing for Dawn releases their latest, A Treacherous Ascension at this time. Four tracks, clocking in at 48:01, with the shortest song lasting for nearly ten minutes. This is atmospheric doom, and by gods does it wrench the heart.
Extremely dirge-oriented, as if one where attending the wake of the last hero on earth, the band strains out every emotion, then ever so slowly drops the pulp around the coffin ceremoniously. The atmospheres surrounding the earth-heavy lamentations swirl in and out of the songs with a cold bitter wind that the wilderness of the frozen north know so well. Melancholic, A Treacherous Ascension weeps the futility and mortality of man.
Melodramatic? Perhaps, but what better way to nurture the desolate brooding of this season than Longing for Dawn, as it is exactly what we are doing: longing for the dawning of spring to feel alive once again.
Website: Longing for Dawn
