From the ethereal shadows, Sombretour's debut album ‘To any World beyond the Tomb’ finally reveals its otherworldly mysteries.
Sombretour's melodic death metal is coloured by doom and black metal atmospheres, backed by folk-medieval acoustic guitars and Lynchian keyboards. It also incorporates the hazy guitar waves of shoegaze and its fiercer modern successor, blackgaze, as well as a certain idea of groove characteristic of alternative rock.
Drawing on the glorious roots of these different styles, Sombretour's music aims to be both timeless and singular, with the aesthetic ambition of sounding like work from both the 1990s and the 2020s. The sonic signature of ‘To any World beyond the Tomb’, which sails from ‘The Jester Race’ to ‘Ecailles de Lune’, from ‘Souvalki’ to ‘Far Away From the Sun’ and from ‘Brave Murder Day’ to ‘Deathconsciousness’, is an attempt to explore a previously untrodden path towards a hypothetical and untraceable melodic deathgaze metal.
