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Full Album Stream: The Sun’s Journey Through the Night – ‘Wordless’

What began four years ago as a solo project by an anonymous masked fiend who goes by the moniker No One has been transformed on The Sun’s Journey Through the Night’s  fourth full-length release,  Wordless.  On this newest effort No One is joined by three collaborators—Lune (guitar), Deimos (drums), Corvus (bass)—in crafting a dynamic, modern black metal album rife with ambient flourishes contrasting the doom-laden hatred fueling the bulk of the material. And in assembling this lineup, No One has transitioned from performing all instruments to simply providing vocals.

The six-track Wordless is set for release via Church Road Records on July 28 on vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally. You can preorder it here .

Quote from band:

“ Worldless is the chaotic cultivation of every key element of this project’s sound thus far when pushed beyond their breaking point, into a new sonic world that TSJTTN has never traversed before. The world that has been built within this album is darker, faster, heavier and routed in a story that has been five years in the making since No One began this journey through the darkest reaches of the cosmos. This is Worldless .”

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The Sun’s Journey Through the Night – Worldless | Album Review

Enigmatic UK black metal outfit The Sun’s Journey Through The Night return once again to explore the suffering wrought by the cosmos with the staggering new studio album; Worldless.

Hailing from the spiritual home of metal and initially starting as an anonymous one-man black metal project, Birmingham based frontman known only as No One has been cultivating a signature sound for a number of years now. Debuting in 2019 with the aptly named DEMO 1 , The Sun’s Journey Through The Night quickly gained an audience for their (self-described) “raw, chaotic and cathartic” black metal, thematically exploring personal traumas through narratives that take inspiration from “creation, death, the universe and life beyond humanity”.

With the aspiration of evolving from just a studio project after releasing three full length studio albums between 2020-2021, No One recruited a full live band to showcase the material. Finding the chemistry between all parties so strong in a live environment, this led Lune, Deimos and Corvus joining the band full time to contribute to new album Worldless , arguably the band’s most accomplished work to date.

Opening track ‘Abolishing Consciousness’ sets the stage perfectly. Beginning with multi-layered guitars saturated in reverb, chiming in the distant expanse before walls of oppressive distortion make themselves known like a gut punch. Churning back to the remote post-rock ambience briefly before finally unleashing into raw black metal fury with one hell of a main hook. The turbulent textural shifts continue, not only throughout ‘Abolishing Consciousness’, but across Worldless as a whole.

“ Balancing the traditional black metal vocal style with significantly more emotive output, at times the vocalist’s pain feels all too real, almost agonisingly so.  ”

The title track opens with post-metal riffs that are very reminiscent of Russian Circles and Amenra (if they were a little faster), before No One’s vocals stir up the blast beats to come. The track has a heavy groove that permeates the black metal theatrics, even featuring a tasty little guitar solo for good measure. As the track winds down, so do the band, continuing to repeat the main riff only getting slower and heavier each time before deteriorating and fading out.

There are a variety of explorative moments across the six-tracks and thirty-nine minute run time, bolstering the power of the black metal passages by allowing room to breathe around them. ‘Void Walker’ takes great advantage of this, with synth layers building ambience and an acoustic lead introduction with a haunting, almost primal, vocal passage that sits somewhere between spoken word and softly sung. It patiently builds anticipation for around two minutes, letting the ambience fade before dramatically returning in intense fashion, replicating the acoustic chord patterns through tremolo guitar work.  

All the expected hallmarks of black metal are present, relentless tremolo riffs on the guitars and bass, cataclysmic blast beats and double kick on the drums (with some absolutely ludicrous fills thrown in for good measure) and No One’s piercing howls. The lyrical themes channeling No One’s personal traumas are presented phenomenally through their vocal performance. Balancing the traditional black metal vocal style with significantly more emotive output, at times the vocalist’s pain feels all too real, almost agonisingly so.  

“ One of the more unique black metal releases of the year ”

‘Grief, The Star’ acts as an instrumental interlude and a reprieve from the fury, if only briefly. Using electronics and samples to build capacious atmospheres that swell and grow, tension weaved throughout the instrumentals as a highly filtered spoken word passage lingers just below the surface, feeling like a lost transmission emanating from the depths of the void. It seamlessly flows into “Flood Of Flames”, piano notes gently ring out in the distance as post-rock melodies accompany the underlying synthesis as the band blend monolithic riffs with their black metal aggression, yet still it closes with an unsettling ambience of gentle post-rock melodies.

The closing track ‘Orion’ is arguably the most intense track on the album and a fitting thematic and emotional climax. The band really pull together an excellent amalgamation of the textures explored across the album, the relentless emotion heavy black metal core taking centre stage at the start. At around the two-minute mark the beat breaks, leaving just a simple drum beat, one guitar and vocals before they themselves fade away into ambient guitars and electronics. This gives way to a stunning programmed orchestral passage dominating the middle of the track as the ambient guitars and electronics support the epic orchestral melodies building to a crescendo, reaching the emotional and instrumental zenith as the album fades away.  

At times hypnotic and expansive, at others claustrophobic and haunting, The Sun’s Journey Through The Night continue to carve away a space for themselves within not only the UK, but the wider black metal scene. The wider influences drawn in and the exploration of varied soundscapes make for one of the more unique black metal releases of the year and a milestone of the growth and maturation within the UK scene.

Score: 8 / 10

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The Sun's Journey Through The Night is the creation of it's masked frontman, whose true identity has always been obscured and hidden. Name's have come and gone, but the moniker that has been most consistent for the dark figure behind the project is "No One".

No One has spent four years crafting his signature style of chaotic and cathartic black metal. With themes that see deep personal trauma translated in to narratives that explore creation, death, the universe and life beyond humanity.

With three albums behind him, each reaching a larger audience than the last, No One began assembling a live version of the band, in order to take his comic black metal from the solitary world of one-man black metal, to the live stage. The visceral energy of this live version of the project led to live musicians Lune, Deimos and Nereid joining the band to help write the monolithic new album "Wordless".

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Sun’s Journey Through the Night – Worldless

Abolishing consciousness .

For the uninitiated, the term “bedroom black metal” probably reads as being derogatory. I must stress that it’s absolutely not – much like beer, there is much charm to home-brewed black metal. The tradition embraces every aspect, particularly the lo-fi production, DIY aesthetics, and that pointed misanthropic, nihilistic energy. It often it hits better than the equivalent stage production might, so it’s very interesting to me that we now get to see an example of exactly that transition.

Depressive/atmospheric black metal project The Sun’s Journey Through The Night is fittingly named, as their atmospheres invoke the cosmic, black, and suffocating expanses of an uncaring universe. Although their new album Worldless is one of many releases by the project (the sixth LP since 2019), it’s a particularly significant release, as documents the band becoming a four piece live band, as opposed to a one man studio project. This step out of the bedroom studio and into the limelight has already elevated their status, going straight to a tour with Spectral Wound and a range of festivals (including Damnation later this year). Unfortunately, Worldless hasn’t impressed me, particularly relative to the project’s initial material, but there’s plenty to consider here for fans of depressive and atmospheric black metal.

First and foremost, the studio treatment gives this project a completely new state of being. The winner of the mix is the vocals as No One ’s vocals now feel unique within the scene. His delivery is the best part, as he continually throws his voice to dramatically strained heights, passing on a certain agony. Single “ Void Walker ” is the best example of these great vocals, and is also the strongest track overall, with ending track “ Orion ” a close second.

The all-important part of a black metal mix is the ensemble of the guitars and drums, and this band now sounds powerful and pummelling. The snare beatdown is oppressive, although the drums do feel somewhat dry against the backdrop the guitars. Much of the riff-to-riff songwriting on Worldless is sufficient, but unmemorable. It’s trem-blasts till kingdom come, but you’ll pick up on a few passages and transitions. Title track “ Worldless ” is perhaps the exception, as it has some interesting motions with its tom groove atmospheric mid-section and tempo-draining ending.

Worldless has plenty of quiet moments, but they all have me pining for the atmospheric moments in the band’s past catalogue. The interlude “ Grief, The Star ” is a vestige of their old ways, with its space-like strings and chilling sample. This kind of “black ambient” or “wintersynth” was more fully explored on 2021’s Veiled Beneath The Shroud of Grief & Misery and really does lose some lustre when processed at a higher fidelity. “ Void Walker ”’s acoustic introduction, not appearing on the single, was a good opportunity to present a melodic counterpart to a dark song, but the whispered vocals come across as unconfident. Later on, “ Flood of Flames ” does have a nice outro with glittery guitars swelling into cosmic mist. The most debated moment of Worldless could be “ Orion ”’s mid-section interlude with its classical instrumentation; for me, it’s a corny moment that snuffs out the spacious, cosmic vibe, just as the record should be coming to an explosive end.

From a listener’s perspective, seeing an artist evolve for the better can be bittersweet. It could be something as simple as improving their gear, or something life changing, like ditching toxic people or patterns of their past. As listeners with specific interests, tastes, and experiences, it’s possible, even likely, that these changes don’t result in better music to our own ears. I’m certainly disappointed that the material on Worldless has done so little for me, particularly because it’s the start of a “proper” band with increased collaboration. An unfortunate tendency on this record is keeping all the “full band” moments at maximum volume, leaving all the dynamic work to the interludes. The result is a project that is fairly effective yet struggles to fully impress in either mode. I do hope to see them perform live, where their stage presence and careful use of their black ambient interludes should overcome the missed opportunities of this record.

Worldless is the new album from The Sun’s Journey Through The Night , and releases through Church Road Records on the 28 th July. You can pre-order the record here ( UK , EU , or US ) and also through their Bandcamp here .

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The Sun's Journey Through The Night is the creation of its masked frontman, whose true identity has always been obscured and hidden. Names have come and gone, but the moniker that has been most consistent for the dark figure behind the project is "No One".   No One has spent four years crafting his signature style of chaotic and cathartic black metal. With themes that see deep personal trauma translated into narratives that explore creation, death, the universe and life beyond humanity. With three albums behind him, each reaching a larger audience than the last, No One began assembling a live version of the band, in order to take his comic black metal from the solitary world of one-man black metal, to the live stage. The visceral energy of this live version of the project led to live musicians Lune, Deimos and Nereid joining the band to help write the monolithic new album "Wordless". TRACK LISTING: 1. Abolishing Consciousness 2. Worldless 3. Void Walker 4. Grief, The Star 5. Flood of Flames 6. Orion

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The Sun’s Journey Through The Night release new music video for ‘Wordless’

THE SUN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE NIGHT  have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track  Wordless , is the title track from the British black metal band’s upcoming new album , which is scheduled to be released in July this year.

Speaking about the new song, the band’s anonymous leader,  No One , says, “the title track of the album Worldless encapsulates everything that we wanted to push further for the album. It’s fast and visceral, slow and crushingly heavy and even has a moment of ambient reflection. All pillars of what make up the sound of TSJTTN . The video is based on a recurring dream that No One has had for almost 20 years, in which man is lost to the void, to create something new.”

Watch the official music video for Wordless here: 

Worldless is set for release on July 28th via Church Road Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased  here .

For more information on THE SUN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE NIGHT follow their official page on  Instagram .

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The Sun’s Journey Through The Night Release Single ‘Wordless’

The Sun's Journey Through The Night Release Single 'Wordless'

The Sun's Journey Through The Night release the second single from their upcoming album 'Worldless' and is the albums title track.

The band comment:

“The title track of the album “Worldless” encapsulates everything that we wanted to push further for the album. It’s fast and visceral, slow and crushingly heavy and even has a moment of ambient reflection. All pillars of what make up the sound of TSJTTN.  The video is based on a recurring dream that No One has had for almost 20 years, in which man is lost to the void, to create something new.”

Check out the video here.

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