NEWS: Swarm Effect share their personal hell!

Ukrainian Death Metal band Swarm Effect recently unleashed their debut full-length album “Cotard’s Syndrome” and have now shared a lyric video for “Personal Hell“. A concept album that revolves around the fragility of human existence, it is the work of  two musicians separated by almost 4000 kilometres as guitarist Denys Burlaka (Killscream) is based in Kropyvnytskyi while vocalist Illia Shapovalov relocated to Portugal in 2016. As if that distance wasn’t enough, the album also features Polish session drummer Krzysztof Klingbein (Belphegor, Vader, Batushka). If you like what you hear, the album is available over at bandcamp.

The band comment: “The theme of the song “Personal Hell” is quite common and always relevant. Why is it common? Because many songs have already been written on this topic. And why is it always relevant? Because each of us has faced, or will face, it at least once in our lives. Everyone has their own demons to overcome. However, in this song, we aimed to depict the journey into hell not only as a dive into the depths of consciousness—although that motif is clearly present—but more as a physical presence in a real, classic hell. We tried to convey the feeling that the protagonist is truly traveling through this hell. Something similar to the animated film “Dante’s Inferno.” Why is this song the first one? Because it embodies the whole album well, and it was also the song we started with. When we saw the result, we decided to record the other songs.”