Hanging Garden – THE GARDEN Vinyl LP

Hanging Garden is a Finnish band who formed in 2004, starting out as a heavy, doom-oriented project. Roughly two decades, seven albums and a couple of line-up shuffles later, the band shifted to a more melodic, contemporary sound, surrounded by a veil of melancholy. The compositions are dark, atmospheric & emotional, and concomitantly lean towards open-minded and playful musicality. While entrenched in metal’s doom, gothic and melodeath branches, Hanging Garden displays a versatile, many-layered style of playing, packs male & female vocals, and draws influence & inspiration from music and art, far and wide. The new album – “The Garden” – dives deep into atmospheres both “tender and harsh, devilish and serene” and “embarks upon a journey to mankind’s spiritual roots, contemplating the fragility of technological society” – as poetically described by the band. “There is a kind of energy in the songs that there wasn’t before,” introspects Hanging Garden. “A feel of hope to contrast our old friend the despair, a strong notion of action against the familiar melancholy, or maybe a light amidst the comfortable gloom.”