Some may have expected that creating an album to follow the darkly magnificent fan favourite, Mors Diligentis, would be a daunting prospect for Spain’s doyens of doom, Golgotha. However, the band have sailed majestically past all their previous achievements with their latest collection of epic hymns. Spreading The Wings Of Hope exemplifies everything that is great about this much-loved band – the earthshaking heaviness and the enthralling melodies, the contrasting dual vocals that express such powerful emotions and the sublime song writing that can utterly enchant the listener.
When Spreading The Wings Of Hope begins with ‘For Every Tear’ the magnitude of Golgotha’s achievement quickly becomes apparent. The perfect balance between grand artifice and soul searing passions, the surging momentum and subtly shifting dynamics, the captivating storytelling as those two voices dance and battle and embrace. Songs like first single, the melancholy dream of ‘Gilded Cage’ and the staggering ‘Human Vultures’ – portentous and grief laden, yet passing through so many shades, moods and tempos as it climbs and falls, roars and whispers on its hypnotising journey – are immediately unforgettable. Spreading The Wings Of Hope creates grand panoramic visions for the imagination, painting in broad, brilliant strokes of colour. Then, with every successive listen you discover more fine details, more hidden secrets in the shadows, more buried treasures between each carefully placed note – and this is what will keep you returning to Spreading The Wings Of Hope again and again, year after year…
Richly layered and meticulously crafted, the songs of Spreading The Wings Of Hope deserve the very finest sonic stage on which to work their magic – and the production, mixing and mastering skills of Javier Fernández (Avulsed, Holycide, TodoMal) have given them just that; each note, each word, each drum beat can be relished, appreciated, consumed. Now allied with renowned label Ardua Music, Golgotha are ready to start a brilliant new chapter in their storied career. When Spreading The Wings Of Hope is unveiled on June 14th, its light will shine like a beacon into every corner of the metal world and devotees of epic, imaginative doom with the power to touch the sombre heart will be enraptured by its mesmeric charm.
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