Artist: BEFORE THE RAIN
Album: ... ONE DAY LESS (CD)

Year: 2007
Media type: CD

The roots of [Before The Rain] go back to 1997, when vocalist Carlos D’Agua and guitar player Valter Cunha started sharing musical ideas that eventually ended up as acoustic songs. As time went by, those simple and organic sounds weren’t enough to express the emotions and feelings unleashed by the duo and, in 1998, both decided to seek musicians to complete the band.

In December 2001, after solidifying their first real line-up, their first two songs - «Be Mine» and «You... My Ruin» - were recorded. Entitled «...And With The Day Dying Light» this demo-CD was only released to a strict sum of close friends and never properly distributed. In August 2003 the recording of a new song, called «The Swansong», showed another sign of life. Unfortunately around that session the group also went through a ton of changes.

A year later - with the help of Pedro Daniel on bass, Hugo Santos on guitar and Gonзalo Correia on drums - [Before The Rain] establishes their strongest line-up to date. Following a mini-tour with Irish doomsters Mourning Beloveth in their home country of Portugal, the five musicians finally find the spark needed to pick up the composition process again and the debut full-length album finally starts taking shape.

Recorded by Joгo Bacelar and mastered at the Cutting Room Studios, in Sweden, by Thomas Eberger (famous for his work with bands like Katatonia, Opeth, Daylight Dies and label mates Process Of Guilt), this collection of six songs promise, not only to embrace the listener gently with evocative melodies, but also to punish with monolithic riffs and mesmerizing feedbacks. Both crushing and incredibly emotional, «One Day Less» is an amazing sonic journey through highs and lows - combining the beautiful acoustic textures of their beginnings with a heavy sensibility firmly rooted in the doom/death metal realm.

TRACKLIST:

01 - Wounds of Rejection
02 - You... My Ruin
03 - Paragraph
04 - Frameless
05 - Be Mine
06 - One Day Less

Total Running Time: 66' 16''

LINE-UP:

Carlos d'Agua. Vocals
Valter Cunha. Guitars
Pedro Daniel. Bass
Hugo Santos. Guitars
Gonзalo Correia. Drums


Recorded & Mixed at QuintaDimensгoStudios by Joao Bacelar & [BeforeTheRain]
Produced by [BeforeTheRain] & Joao Bacelar
Mastered by Thomas Eberger at Cutting Room Studios

Music & Words by [BeforeTheRain]

Design by Phobos Anomaly
Art Direction by [BeforeTheRain] & Phobos Anomaly