THE LIVING FIELDS: Full Album Streaming Via Hellbound

For two weeks, Ontario-based metal site Hellbound is hosting a full album stream of THE LIVING FIELDS' sophomore album, Running Out Of Daylight,

Check out the brilliant release in its entirety at this location.

Enriching their symphonic, epic metal through the use of piano, violin, viola, cello, and acoustic guitar and more, THE LIVING FIELDS take their distinctive style to great new heights onRunning Out Of Daylight, the album released in late July via Candlelight Records. While the members of the band are scattered across multiple continents, having never played a live show or even recorded a full release in the same session, their talent and creativity are unstoppable when combined. The new album has received acclaim form media outlets worldwide helping elevate this underground act's name higher into the ranks of metal's contemporary elite.

"It’s a fine line between brilliance and mediocrity when trying to do something like this, but The Living Fields manage to do what they do exceptionally well." - Hellbound

"One of progressive metal’s most tantalizing prospects... a genuinely evolutionary way of songwriting." - Terrorizer

"...one of the year’s more somber and striking efforts..." - Blistering

"I can’t think of another band that sounds much at all like them, and that’s one hell of a compliment in today’s saturated consumer climate." - Metal Review

"...one of the best metal albums of 2011." - Teeth of the Divine

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The Living Fields: New Album Out Now

The Living Fields plays an eclectic smelt of metals fleshed out with piano, violins, viola, cello, acoustic guitars and a variety of internal and external musical influences. Though built around a core of deep respect for the early death /doom architects, The Living Fields' songs are rife with healthy doses of thrash, black, Viking and epic metals that reflect the underlying moods and themes of the lyrics. Higgs' storylines typically veer far to the left of the self-centered clichés of doom (love, loss and death) in favor of more universal horrors that flow freely from the seemingly endless parade of humanity's self-inflicted plagues. Oppression, injustice, suffering and man's inhumanity to man flourish with such virility in today's world that merely turning on the news offers up ample material for an entire album. Reading any book of history provides enough for a dozen.

Another three years in the making, Running Out of Daylight see the addition of a new guitarist - Sam Rahn - and the first appearance of real strings on our music, courtesy of violinist/violist Chuck Bontrager and cellist Petar Kecenovici. It also features both our longest and shortest songs ever, and the entire album is wrapped in our best production and biggest mix to date, courtesy of Jay Walsh at Farview Recording

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THE LIVING FIELDS: Decibel Magazine Premieres New Track As Album Nears Release

With the release of epic doom metallers THE LIVING FIELDS' sophomore full-length, Running Out Of Daylight, nearing official street date -- hitting North America on July 26 via Candlelight Records -- Decibel Magazine is hosting the public's first listen to the record today.

 

Swing by The Deciblog to stream the track "Glacial Movements" now at this location.

Forging an epic, progressive and wholly unique style of death/doom metal, the Chicago-based quartet THE LIVING FIELDS elevate their sound beyond "standard doom metal" through the use of piano, violin, viola, cello, and acoustic guitar and more. Their crushing, second full-length release, Running Out Of Daylight, provides eight bold anthems engulfing over an hour. With recording processes spanning the Atlantic and East Coast, the album was assembled at Farview Recordings by Jay Walsh and mastered in London by Tim Turan (Emperor).

Running Out Of Daylight Track Listing:

1. Remnant

2. Perseverance

3. From Miseries to Bloodsoaked Fields 

4. When the Walls Go

5. Bitterness

6. Glacial Movements

7. Intermissione

8. Running Out of Daylight

"Whether it’s the lyrics or the music, the layers are stacked to infinity, and only diligent music fans will take the time to peel them apart. 4/5" - About.com"

...an ultra symphonic, yet very approachable sonic headspace; one which is simultaneously progressive and accessible by an audience anxious for melody and vast, sweeping song structure." - Metal Army 

America"They come at their style from an interesting angle of pushing the envelope to include many emotions." - Metal Underground

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