LIGHTLESS, Nàire, Glare of the Sun

LIGHTLESS: Coming from its initial state as a solo project of Christian, Lightless became a band based in Dresden, Germany, in late 2021. Their music offers a unique blend between Doom and Black Metal, with noticeable influences by Sludge and Post Metal. Songwriting is typically elaborated during regular jam sessions. Hereby, the timbre discontinuously meanders between harsh/rude and heavy/slow sections, with the addition of atmosphere through clean and drone parts creating vast landscapes of melancholy. The lyrics reflect impressions of both every-day life and overall societal issues. We live in a world about to die sooner than later: conflicts, wars, extremist political perspectives, corruption, bullshit,lifestyle, climate change, contamination, destruction of habitats - this list is a shear endless one. Many countries are at the brink of destabilization. Facts are widely ignored, and freedom of speech is abused, with stakeholders and even scientist showing tendencies of mass manipulation. Lightless primarily addresses these conflicts and the risk of a desolated earth linked to it.Shortly after consolidating the first songs, a couple of first shows followed in 2022. Given positive resonances, the session EP “Descent to insignificance” was released in August 2022. With this release, Lightless were able to gain recognition in the local scene and could raise further opportunities for live shows. A two-digit number of shows followed in 2023 and 2024, sharing the stage partially with well-known (inter)national acts. This provided additional recognition beyond the borders of their home federal state. In winter 2024/25 recordings for “A foreseen loss” were carried out at the band’s rehearsal place. This debut full-length album was then released on April 30, 2025, and subsequently promoted during a three-day tour through the Czech Republic. Subsequently other concerts in Germany followed, including three festival attendances (In Flammen Open Air, Knispival Festival, Sundrowner Fest), a tour supporting Pantheist (UK), and single shows in six different countries of western Europe. Recently, the songwriting phase for the next release has begun. https://lightlessdoom.bandcamp.com/album/a-foreseen-loss NAIRE: Unforgiving, harrowing and aggressive Post-Metal/Sludge from Austria. Addressing men's exploitation of the earth, its resources and each other, Nàire's sound leaves you with a feeling of hopelessness wrath and anguish. https://naire.bandcamp.com/music GLARE OF THE SUN: Glare of the Sun ist eine deutsch-österreichische Post- und Doom-Metal-Band, die 2013 gegründet wurde. Ihr Stil bewegt sich zwischen Death Doom, Post-Metal, Shoegaze und progressiven Einflüssen und ist für atmosphärische Klanglandschaften sowie den Wechsel zwischen schweren, düsteren und melodisch- verträumten Passagen bekannt. Die Band entstand im oberbayerischen Traunwalchen bei Traunreut. Seit etwa 2015 besteht die Besetzung aus Christoph Stopper (Gesang), Gerald Huber (Gitarre, Gesang), Martin Baumann (Gitarre), Tobias Schwab (Bass) und Franz Ebert (Schlagzeug). 2017 veröffentlichte die Band ihr Debütalbum Soil, aufgenommen im Studio von Martin Schirenc und gemastert von Dan Swanö, das sie in der europäischen Doom- und Post-Metal-Szene etablierte. 2019 folgte das experimentellere Album Theia, dessen Songtitel aus fortlaufenden römischen Zahlen bestehen. Im September 2024 erschien mit Tal über Lifeforce Records das dritte Studioalbum, das orchestrale Elemente mit schweren Gitarren verbindet und die Klangpalette der Band erweitert. Heute gilt Glare of the Sun als Teil der modernen europäischen Post-/Doom-Metal-Szene und ist besonders für atmosphärische, emotional intensive Kompositionen bekannt. https://gotslfr.bandcamp.com/album/tal