Release Date June 5th, 2026
Format CD
Genre DSBM
Origin Sweden
Tårfödd is a Swedish one man DSBM project formed in 2022 and run by Simon Lindgren, who writes, performs, programs, records, mixes, and masters the music on his own. In a short span, the name has stacked up six albums, nine singles, two EPs, and collaborative releases, an output that says more about obsession than schedule. The catalogue sits in depressive black metal, bleak melodies, cold guitar lines, bitter synth shades, and a vocal approach built on strain more than polish. Purity Through Fire took the project under its banner with "Lidande" in 2025, then continued with "Mörker Täcker Livets Ljus" before gathering the catalogue under the same roof.
The label is usually tied to sterner black metal ground, so Tårfödd comes across as a slightly odd match on paper, although the link makes sense once the romantic fog is scraped away. Under the sadness, this is black metal, raw, wintry, and cut with a Swedish sense of ruin. Lindgren works
in grey skies, private collapse, and melody that stains the air long after the last note has gone. The project can be excessive in quantity, no question, and not every idea in such a fast discography can have equal value. "Skyfall" arrives as one of the more stripped and severe entries in that run.
"Skyfall" is a four song, 32 minute mini album that plays closer to an album than a side release. Lindgren handles guitars, vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, lyrics, drum and synth programming, mix, and master, so the result has one authorial pulse, for better and for worse. The production is the point, rough edges, thin air, raw guitar grain, and a bleached atmosphere that refuses warmth. The drums, being programmed, can turn stiff in faster or more skeletal parts, and the synth work sometimes blurs the riff shape more than it should. The payoff comes in the way the songs sink into grief with no decoration. The quiet drops are meaner than the loud sections because they pull the floor away, then the distorted return cuts colder. Vocally, Lindgren sounds torn, almost emptied out, with no heroic pose in sight.
The lyrics and titles point toward destruction, death, and a ruined world, and the music follows that path with little mercy. "Skyfall" has atmosphere, ache, and enough black metal blood under the depressive skin to stop it from becoming background sadness. It also has faults. Some passages circle the same wound longer than necessary, and the stripped setup exposes the drum programming more than a more packed mix would have. The release is not a grand leap for Tårfödd, it is a rawer cut into an already bleak body of work. Listeners drawn to the project’s more layered side may miss the extra color, while those wanting the black metal core placed further forward get a colder meal here. Grim, personal, and occasionally too stretched, "Skyfall" is a good Tårfödd release with scars showing, not a perfect one.
|7.5
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