Milan, Italy based Doom Metal/Post-Rock outfit Ghostheart Nebula is back with their sophomore album, “Blackshift,” which was just released on October 17th, 2024 via Meuse Music Records. Stream the whole album through the YouTube player below:
The band takes the listener to an empiric experience, a voyage to discover the depths of the vaste cosmos through pain, sorrow and mourn. With Lucia’s official entry into the line-up, they are expanding their sonic horizons towards ethereal and deeper scenarios.
“Blackshift” is the second full-length album by Ghostheart Nebula, successor of the well acclaimed “Ascension” (2021), in which we see the official entry of Lucia Amelia Emmanueli into the lineup as female singer.
If blueshift and redshift represent a change in the spectrum in the space-time linear dimension, »Blackshift« moves itself off to another reality going down into the deepness of the blackest voidness. A journey that starts embracing the nothingness with “Sunya,” referring to the concept of “sunyata,” the Indian philosophical concept for emptiness.
The album features cosmic themes as well as their reflection on human feelings “The Opal Tide” & “Naught,I” (with an excerpt from Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” speech) and quantum entanglement theories “Infinite Mirror.”
Despair, sorrow and disillusion carry the title track “Blackshift” and “Traces” which is the most desperate track of the album in its restless search for leaving a mark, an epitaph of an ephemeral existence. The last track “Orphan Of Light” faces the feminine/masculine dualism theme also in the coordinates of a mother and his son in the reunion process after the painful departure of the Mother Light who threw the hopeless son into the void.
Be ready for “Blackshift” on October 17th, an album that, once experienced, will never be forgotten.
Order your copy here:
ghostheartnebula.bandcamp.com
meusemusicrecords.bandcamp.com
m9music.eu
Tracklist:
01. VdB 141 IC 1805
02. Sunya
03. The Opal Tide
04. Naught, I
05. Infinite Mirror
06. Blackshift
07. Traces
08. Orphan Of Light
Lineup:
Lucia Amelia Emmanueli / Vocals
Maurizio Caverzan / Vocals
Panta Leo / Drums
Aron Corti / Guitars
Nick Magister / Guitars and Synths
Bolthorn / Bass
Special Guests: Diego “Didi” Cavallotti (ex-Inverno, ex-Lacuna Coil) with a guitar solo on “Sunya” and Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, Cronian) with acoustic guitars on “Infinite Mirror.”