JONATHAN HULTÉN

DAVE EVERLEY

Eyes Of The Living Night KSCOPE Swedish folk-prog maverick expands his horizons dramatically. Jonathan Hultén’s pivot from extreme metal to something more ethereal has been one of the more welcome transformations of the past few years. On his 2020 debut album, Chants From Another Place, the former guitarist with Swedish growlers Tribulation stripped away the gnarled noise in a favour of a liminal beauty: Nick Drake resurrected and relocated to a wintry Scandinavian forest, dressed in 1920s movie-star makeup and a widow’s veil. “Transcends its influences to sound like nothing else.” Where the debut was painted in shades of muted blue, green and grey, Eyes Of The Living Night feels like an explosion of colour, the hushed and haunted ambience of its predecessor blossoming into something more expansive. If his…

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