MetalSucks is currently streaming All Is Well In The Land Of The Living, But For The Rest Of Us… Lights Out, the brilliant new solo EP from Swedish multi-instrumentalist PER WIBERG. The premiere comes on the eve of the EP’s official release Friday, May 14th via Despotz Records.
Aptly titled for these turbulent times, WIBERG‘s latest EP is a commanding celebration of innovative rock at its finest. Expanding and further evolving his vision, WIBERG adeptly paints the definitive and familiar paradigms of golden age progressive rock with spirited and electrifying twists of dark tone. Listening to a master weave his deep spells, from shadow to light, we are at once entranced and delighted in equal measure as PER WIBERG brews a potent concoction that’s captivating, catchy and forever expansive and impassioned. From tracks like “All Is Well,” which comes across like Young Gods gone prog, to the haunting and avant-garde “But for The Rest Of Us,” which basks in dark improv in the vein of Alice Coltrane/Sun Ra, WIBERG unfolds his sound in blankets of fresh atmosphere. “In The Land Of The Living” smashes latter era Sonic Youth alt rock into the heavy fuzzing riffs of King Crimson/Hawkwind with a bassline that has you hitting the steering-wheel across bleak highways while “Lights Out” lies on the melancholic side of Dark Side Of The Moon with Ulver at their most post-pop and early Porcupine Tree at their most anthemic. If you want to hear Swedish progressive metal taken to the next level of dark melodic exploration, you will find your black heart shrouded in a very different kind of heavy with All Is Well In The Land Of The Living…
Writes MetalSucks, “Drawing on influences as diverse as Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Ulver, Porcupine Tree, Sonic Youth, and Alice Coltrane, All Is Well In The Land Of The Living… represents WIBERG‘s most ambitious work to date. No two songs sound alike; it is genre-defying, psychedelic, atmospheric, catchy, expansive, and dark without being dour or dreary. It’s a big creative swing, but WIBERG hits it out of the park: a not second feels misguided, tedious, or wasted. We hope to hear much, much more material in this vein from WIBERG in the future.”
Witness PER WIBERG’s All Is Well In The Land Of The Living, But For The Rest Of Us… Lights Out, exclusively via MetalSucks, at THIS LOCATION.
The EP will be released on vinyl and digital formats. Find physical preorders at THIS LOCATION and digital orders HERE.
A sonic craftsman of the highest order, WIBERG‘s work has illuminated an array of classic albums (and stages) over the years performing with the likes of Opeth, Spiritual Beggars, and Candlemass, as well as Clutch/The Bakerton Group, Switchblade, and Kamchatka to name but a few. However, it’s WIBERG‘s solo work that serves as the pinnacle of his odyssey through music. Over three decades of expertise culminate into a sound that is distinctly PER WIBERG‘s own, with Classic Rock describing it as, “sometimes reminiscent of the distant beauty of Steven Wilson, sometimes of the industrial hypothermia of Nine Inch Nails, and sometimes of simply nothing that existed before him.”
In 2019, WIBERG released his debut solo offering Head Without Eyes, consummating his career as a musician with an eruption of soulful song. Nordic prog in a gnawing stew of jolting guitar notes, jangling bones, and emotive melodies, the critically-lauded recording laid bare a beautifully uncharted new terrain that outstripped the laurels of his past and solidified his strong presence as a unique solo artist in his own right. PER WIBERG aced his class of prog and now has the history books firmly at his command. Take a seat, and kick back to All Is Well In The Land Of The Living and let WIBERG‘s masterclass of atmospheric rock open a gap in the universe for you to escape and survive these dark times.
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