Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void 5011921067633 and being able to return

and being able to return to working without that narrow focus was refreshing

Re-Animator is their first album since 2017's A Fever Dream

lyrically transfixing

as if the spaceship had a soul

Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void 5011921067633 and being able to returnFinnish funeral doom icons Shape of Despair return from the wintry Nordic gloom on their new album, Return to the Void. Between the success of the majestically downtrodden Monotony Fields (2015) and today, the members have been composing (glacially) and otherwise ensconced writing performing with their other projects like Finntroll, Impaled Nazrene, Throes of Dawn and Counting Hours. The Finns have never been or found the need to be prolific, however.