40 WATT SUN

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: atmospheric melancholic epic doom metal

debut longplay [2011] of Patrick Walker's new project, formed in 2009, marks a deliberate shift after the Warning era, retaining similarly strong emotional weight while moving away from traditional doom metal format, building its sound on calm, wistful guitar layers, minimalist, patiently developed structures, and subtly shifting dynamics, where each riff or pause holds its own distinct place, while the fragile, open, and sincere vocals become the central axis, conveying themes of solitude, loss, and faith, thus creating a restrained yet deeply affecting, melancholic sound in which the heaviness of music emerges through drama-laden intensity and refined, ascetic expression, maintaining connection to past work while clearly stepping onto a new creative direction; recent limited Finnish gatefold sleeve double orange vinyl edition comes with a remastered sound, pro-printed eight page sleeve sized lyric booklet, and Take Me In bonus