Green Carnation Face Changing Tides on New Single!

Had Green Carnation never returned from hiatus during the mid-2000s, the Norwegian band would've been remembered for completing one of the most ambitious individual epics in metal's archives. But with their upcoming new album, the progressive metal auteurs are setting sail on a three-part journey that's two decades in the making. A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia is the first in a trilogy of albums that promises to take new and lifelong fans to the highest tops and darkest of inner rooms.

"In naming their magnum opus, they are not simply describing a mood; they are staking a claim to a lineage, positioning their work not within the modern parlance of depression, but in the grand, romantic tradition of creative sorrow", Atmosfear Entertainment wrote in an extensive preview. "The romantic poets despaired over the state of the world as they saw it; Green Carnation despairs over a world whose reality has become unstable, contested, and weaponized".

Today, Green Carnation are premiering the title track from the opening chapter of A Dark Poem with Metal Injection. While glistening with timeless melodies, "The Shores of Melancholia" is clouded by sinking hopes for the present state of our world.

"Melancholia is a place that's suited Green Carnation from the very beginning", says the band's vocalist Kjetil Nordhus. "But it's especially fitting for the first part of A Dark Poem, because this album is about losing faith in what we've come to believe about the world".