Tracklist
1. Mother Of The Soul
2. Astrid Falls
3. Dead For A Day
4. Dying For The Sun
5. To The Calling Of Blood And Dreams
6 .The Math Of The Myth
7. Crawling From Validity
8 .The Wedlock Observation
9. The Inheritance
cover
“The Inheritance“ is a pretty thick concept album split into different episodes and very briefly, the WITHERSCAPE story takes place in a remote village in northern Sweden in the late 1800’s. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family he’s informed by the family lawyer that he has inherited a large estate up north. Having been oblivious to the estate’s existence, he decides to investigate, and once he’s there „all kinds of weird shit happens…“, according to Dan Swanö.
The hauntingly beautiful cover artwork for „The Inheritance“, which can be seen above, was created by Travis Smith / Seempieces, who has worked with bands like Opeth, Nevermore, Death or also Katatonia before.
Dan Swanö also checked in to comment about the artwork as follows: „Both me and Ragnar are fascinated by old abandoned buildings and it was pretty clear from the start that we would have the estate our main character inherits on the albumcover. We used Travis Smith as a „medium“ for our visual ideas and he did a spectacular job transforming our written wishes into a real image.“