While we can’t help you pronounce Svjetlost, we can offer up the fact that it means “light” in the Slavic language of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Which is fitting because even though the musician behind this one-man doom project, Jamie Kobić (also a member of Gavran), is located in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he is of Bosnia ancestry. Thus his “solo” album of sorts, The Forever Silent, is steeped in that culture. Though the track we’re premiering, a lumbering 13-minute crusher in the Sleep vein, may not sound, on its surface, particularly Slavic, its lyrical content is, in fact about Kobić’s homeland.
The Forever Silent was produced by Freek van Rooyen (Gavran) and mixed by Marius Prins (Throwing Bricks), while mastering was handled by Alan Douches. It’s set for release via Shadow of Sorrow Records on July 24. Place your preorder here.
Kobić had this to say about the new track:
“This song is about the pyramid-shaped mountains found in a small town in Bosnia over a decade ago. Where an ancient civilization might have lived that had built these structures to come into contact with aliens or maybe even supernatural forces. Although this is heavily disputed, obviously it’s a great story to tell in a song like this.”
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