GREEN CARNATION Release new video for "Loneliness Untold, Loneliness Unfold"

Now, as they prepare to turn the page to the bold and resounding final chapter of A Dark Poem, GREEN CARNATION are releasing a new video for the most raw and aching ballad from A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis. In a rare appearance, the band's bassist and primary lyricist Stein Roger Sordal steps in front of the mic on "Loneliness Untold, Loneliness Unfold" with hopes of reaching a long-lost friend. "Obviously, this song is about loneliness, but more specifically, it's about watching a very good and close friend gradually shut himself off from the rest of the world", Sordal says. "It's about sitting on the sidelines, watching it happen and not being able to do anything about it."

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After reaching crushing new highs during its grand and gloomy opener, A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis reveals GREEN CARNATION at their deepest, darkest and most vulnerable depths. Two decades have passed since Sordal last took the lead on vocals, but he alone carries the burden of "Loneliness Untold, Loneliness Unfold". Accompanied by little more than a sombre guitar melody that unwinds like the slow passage of time, he delivers one of the most chilling ballads the prog bards have ever penned. "Do you want to die?" he asks a reclusive friend. That his voice doesn't waver in posing the question confirms his fear of already knowing the answer. "The songs on Part II come as they are, with no filter", Sordal says. "I needed to set these stories free and let them out."

The idea for an album trilogy penned after Shakespeare's tragic Ophelia stems all the way back to the band's earliest reflections of life and death. When the first part of A Dark Poem was unfurled in 2025, right away, it was clear that GREEN CARNATION had completed their masterpiece. The Shores of Melancholia washed onto year-end lists at Loudwire, Angry Metal Guy and other major publications. "Epic in both scope and sound, the latter being the band's rich, melodic take on the genre best described as Rainbow's Rising if it were a prog album", PROG wrote. "Part I works as an entity in its own right while also leaving the listener desperate to hear the next installments." Founded in the early '90s by Emperor's original bassist Tchort, Green Carnation amassed a cult following behind critical acclaim for Light of Day, Day of Darkness, an album containing a single hour-long song that still resonates as one of the most ambitious epics in metal's archives.

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A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis is out now via Season of Mist.

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Order & stream: https://orcd.co/greencarnationsanguis