{"product_id":"drown-subaqueous-cd-digipak","title":"Drown - Subaqueous - CD DIGIPAK","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn his second album \"Subaqueous\" under the Drown moniker, Portland's Funeral Doom extremist Markov Soroka - also the heart and soul of Tchornobog and Aureole - sets out to absorb all light and in the process creates realms of fluorescent beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile celebrating surges of darkness and disturbance through Tchornobog, the obsessively driven artist offers a different facet of his persona via Drown. Although the foundation of the music is uncompromisingly heavy and grief-laden, it is carried by a current of playful melodies and weightless harmonies. These forces combined create a relentless maelstrom into the depths of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), who is no stranger to funeral doom metal, \"Subaqueous\" is a jewel that shines brightly within this still rather obscure genre. As Markov frankly states: \"Drown is what I wished 'aquatic doom' sounded like before I started the project.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as his other ventures, Drown is based on an ongoing conceptual story and to be seen as a musical theater of sorts, focussing on one protagonist among other characters. Since such stories can work on a metaphorical level too, Markov says: \"The drowning of our lives is as much a metaphor as it is a construct to escape into on this album. The common woe of human life are the various forms of grief and depression we feel as loss.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe water filling the protagonist's lungs not only crushes them; they make him one with the ocean deep …\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53416346091863,"sku":"P-91024-","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Drown-Subaqueous-CD-DIGIPAK-91024-1-1578493413.jpg?v=1778061020","url":"https:\/\/shop.season-of-mist.com\/products\/drown-subaqueous-cd-digipak","provider":"Season of Mist - International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}