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There are times in life when it feels like darkness will consume the light. Suffering. Loss. Theemptiness that follows. At a distance, we can steel ourselves against the grim inevitabilities ofdisease, dementia and deterioration in old age, but when more intimately faced with their impact,it becomes easy to imagine some hidden demon gorging on the misery wrought. From such painwas birthed Urnes savage second album A Feast On Sorrow.There were a lot of dark times, sighs frontman Joe Nally. Losing people is a horrible thing whenthe reality hits, it shocks. I was full of pentup emotion anger, confusion and I could only seem torelease that through aggression. This is much darker. There were quite a few fun elements to ourfirst LP Serpent & Spirit. There arent many of those here.Alongside mercurial guitarist Angus Neyra and newly recruited master drummer JamesCook, the mission was to create something definitive. Unexpectedly, theyd be assisted in that byGojira frontman Joe Duplantier already a vocal fan of the band who invited the Londoners torecord at his Silver Cord studio in Brooklyn, New York and came onboard to produce. Fromblistering opener The Flood Came Rushing In and the brutalist introspection of To Die twiceto epic 11minute pillars A Stumble Of Words and The Longer GoodbyeWhere Do The MemoriesGo, the blend of wreckage and release is utterly breathtaking.