Album Review: DET EVIGA LEENDET – Vehemence
DET EVIGA LEENDET – Vehemence Release Date: 13/11/26. Label: Debemur Morti Productions Review by Rick Eaglestone In 1920, Pär Lagerkvist published Det eviga leendet ( The Eternal Smile ), a novel in which a gathering of the dead sit together in the dark and pass eternity the only way open to them, by talking. It is a wonderfully bleak idea to borrow a name from, and Uppsala's Det eviga leendet have spent the past decade making music that sounds as though it is being broadcast from that same lightless room. Third album Vehemence marks their arrival on Debemur Morti Productions, and it is hard to think of a more natural home for a collective whose records have always felt closer to art than to genre exercise. The band have kept themselves deliberately in the shadows since forming in 2015, the instrumentalists known only by their initials. Debut Lenience emerged through Fallen Empire Records in 2018 and was reissued in Europe by Amor Fati Productions in 2019, before 2022...
