Tarfödd - En Känsla Av Hopplöshet Digipak CD

Since their formation in 2022, Sweden's Tårfödd have become a prolific force in the DSBM scene. With six full-lengths to date as well as nine singles, three EPs, and a couple collaborative records, mainman Simon Lindgren is a man possessed: supreme melancholy, bittersweet majesty, Technicolor textures, and soul-draining emotion have all become his stock in trade. And while it's not often that Purity Through Fire steps into depressive black metal waters, the label made an exception in 2025 for the release of Lidande and followed it up earlier this year with the band's sixth album, Mörker täcker livets ljus, and the Skyfall mini-album at the dawn of summer.

Now, with Tårfödd's whole catalog available under the banner of Purity Through Fire, Lindgren returns yet again with his second album this year, En Känsla Av Hopplöshet. The band's seventh full-length overall, En Känsla Av Hopplöshet picks up more than a few cues from the grimmer & greyer Skyfall. That concise and yet somehow-vast mini-album showed TÅRFÖDD in a rawer state, with Lindgren returning to vocal duties as well as handling all instruments, as usual - but even with this rawer soundfield, his emotive visions penetrated just as deeply. While En Känsla Av Hopplöshet is slightly less raw by comparison, LP#7 largely moves at a more violent gait, with blastbeaten speed utilized often and to poignant effect. And yet, it's Lindgren's integration of acoustic guitar here - both in plaintive relief, like the album's opener, or layered across the scabrous black metal - which adds another unique dimension to an already kaleidoscopic Tårfödd. Even with all that speed, Lindgren's songwriting is as breathtaking as ever, reaching its cathartic conclusion on the closing title track. It's no coincidence, then, that En Känsla Av Hopplöshet is slated for release during the autumn: the album literally smells like dry leaves, bleeding bittersweet memories across its barren path.