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From their formation in 2018 featuring a veritable \"who's who\" of death metal royalty and the auspicious Into the Blackness debut EP on to their even-more-widely-celebrated debut album, Kingdom of Darkness, that royalty - drummer Andy Whale (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower), vocalist Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods \/ Demisery), guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet \/ This Ending) and Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate \/ Ordo Infernus), and new bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Grave \/ ex-Dismember) - proved that they weren't ready to rest on their all-too-considerable laurels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile doubtlessly a summation of their combined histories in death metal, DARKENED continued to finesse that sound into something all their own last year, first with the Mourn the Dying Light EP and then successive second album The Black Winter. World-eating all-caps DEATH METAL with atmosphere to spare? 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