Sun Of The Sleepless
Poems To The Wretches Hearts
Prophecy Productions, 1999
 

Sun Of The Sleepless is the black metal side project of one Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, he of melancholy expressionists Empyrium. All instrumentation and composition is handled by Schwadorf; a complete solitary vision/expression. Poems To The Wretches Hearts is nothing short of three tracks of early Burzum/Ulver admiration decorated with Empyrium-styled melancholic ambience. The material is minimalistic in nature, shifting from high-speed bitterness to more atmospheric and melodic movements. Opener "Thou, Whose Face Hath Felt The Winter's Wind" begins harsh and fast, maintaining it's tempo and tone until the arrival of restrained keyboard ambience with gothly spoken voice, then exploding into the original theme to usher in the songs completion. "Grimme Pain" is straight-ahead black venom with melodic streams, tumbling down a bleak staircase of a finale. "Nebelmond" is certainly the most melodic offering. Churning rhythms lie beneath soaring lead guitar melodies, eventually giving way to slower, almost meditative moments before plunging into high-speed desperation, though without forsaking the original melodic theme and underlying keyboard melancholics.

Poems To The Wretches Hearts is not classic black metal. It does not demand to be heard by anyone who has even a potent, deep taste for the genre. Yet it does offer a brief and refreshing expression of the style. The yearning emotions and somber atmospheres are incorporated quite well into the grim caverns that lie at the foundation of black metal's core.
 

2003 

Tracklisting:

1. Thou, Whose Face Hath Felt The Winter's Wind
2. Grimme Pain
3. Nebelmond
 

Sun Of The Sleepless Discograohy

1999 - Poems To The Wretches Hearts, MCD (Prophecy Productions)
2000 - 1000 kalte Winter, 7"EP (Prophecy Productions)
2004 - I, split album with Nachtmahr (Lupus Lounge)