NEWS: After Earth make it an unholy trinity with “Skinwalker”!

As the 26th September fast approaches, Swedish Melodic Death Metal act After Earth are preparing for war. Their battle cry is sophomore album “Dark Night of the Soul“, the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed debut “The Rarity of Reason“, a record completed in three weeks of sessions at Obsidian Recording Studios in March 2025. There they were joined by long-time collaborator Robert Marcko who produced and mastered, the advanced singles promising a diving deeper into their signature sound. “Skinwalker” is the third single…

The band comment: “‘Skinwalker’ is about a darker kind of transformation. The Navajo legend that inspired this song is about witches who through dark deeds gain the ability to take on the form of an animal to perform their malevolent will. They don’t see what they’re doing as something bad or evil, instead it’s just a new form of power, even though from our perspective what they’re doing is horrifying.

The song is both heavy and melodic, perfectly suiting the theme of the legend and the transformation itself. ‘Skinwalker,’ unlike many of our other songs, is not meant to be inspiring—instead it plays with the thought of giving in to your darkest desires.This is also reflected in our music video for this song, which is our modern take on this legend.”