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Dead Kosmonaut’s founder Mattias Reinholdsson once described theband’s sound by pointing out that the early metal bands had norestrictions on how their material should sound. “These weremusicians who’d not grown up on metal music as it didn’t exist,” hesaid, “so their take on it had many different facets and albums hadacoustic songs, jazzy songs, bluesy songs, progressive songs… Iwant Dead Kosmonaut to be that sort of band, so that when youlisten to one of our songs you don’t really know what’s comingnext…” Dead Kosmonaut’s second album ‘Gravitas’ certainlysubscribes to that theory. The band serves up a variety of stylesand song structures and displays such an array of influences as tokeep even the most discriminating metal fan as happy as a dog withtwo tails. Such is their mastery. With a settled line-up consistingof Mattias on bass, vocalist Pelle Gustafsson, guitarists FredrikFolkare and Pär Fransson and drummer Henrik Johansson, DeadKosmonaut are largely based in Stockholm. “I have tried to puttogether a strong line-up for the band and I am confident that‘Gravitas’ illustrates that. It’s more of Dead Kosmonaut. It’swider and deeper. The heavy stuff is really heavy and the melodicstuff is even more melodic. “With ‘Gravitas’, once again I set outto create an album displaying a wide selection of hard rock andheavy metal songs. I was pleased with the way ‘Expect Nothing’ andthe Rekviem came out, and I never thought of narrowing down thesound of Dead Kosmonaut; rather the opposite, in fact, as I wantedto put more facets and elements into it.” The dynamics of the songsalso played their part in how ‘Gravitas’ finally appeared. “When Ibegan the work of putting the album together I knew I had two longsongs to fit in as well as the more ‘regular’ length tracks. So Icame up with the idea of making ‘Gravitas’ literally an album oftwo sides – the first more hard rock and the second perhaps moreprogressive, in that the songs are, perhaps, more adventurous, likeIron Maiden’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, say, compared to ‘2Minutes To Midnight.’ So, the first side is four songs that willhopefully grab the listeners’ attention and lead them to side twowith the two long songs. I also realised that I needed a transitionbetween these two long ones, so I came up with the title track.” Ahandful of guests played their part in the execution of ‘Gravitas’.“Daniel Moilanen (Katatonia, Runemagick) plays some drums as wellas Fredrich Rönnholm who played on a few songs on the first album.We also have a proper church organist in Mats G. Erikssonperforming on the song ‘Dead Kosmonaut’. Per Broddesson playsguitar on the two songs he recorded before he decided to jump ship– we felt that as he was a part of the process of creating thealbum he should be featured. Last but not least we have a choirsinging on ‘Dead Kosmonaut’. It’s pretty massive. But on the wholeI am glad we have a more stable line-up with this new album. Let’shope it stays this way,” he laughs.

Track list:
1. Black Tongue Tar
2. Iscariot’s Dream
3. Vanitatis Profeta
4. The Spirit Divide
5. Hell – Heaven
6. Gravitas
7. Dead Kosmonaut – Part I
8. Dead Kosmonaut – Part II

Condition cover: nm

Condition vinyl: nm

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