{"id":226824,"date":"2025-12-09T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/?p=226824"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:19:29","slug":"nattradio-the-longest-night-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angrymetalguy.com\/nattradio-the-longest-night-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Nattradio – The Longest Night Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It doesn’t seem to take long for the “wee hours” of the night to kick in these winter days. With them comes a very specific, almost hypnotic sadness that anyone who sleep has forsaken knows well. That tag-team of coldness and isolation brought on by the night just can’t be beat sometimes. Swedish goth\/doom duo Nattradio <\/strong>know this sensation intimately, as their new album The Longest Night<\/em> was written and shaped exclusively in the latest hours of the night. Injecting their Katatonia<\/strong>-inspired Gothic doom with elements of ambient music and noir jazz, Nattradio <\/strong>crafted their sophomore record to reflect the somberness of wakeful late nights, framing its ideal listening time in those hours. But will their efforts echo the sadness of the insomniac, or will The Longest Night <\/em>just make them only long for sleep that much more?<\/p>\n

Though Nattradio <\/strong>don’t skirt the qualifications of a metal band like Sleep Token <\/strong>or Ghost <\/strong>do, I am nonetheless reminded of more non-metal bands\/artists than metal ones while listening to The Longest Night<\/em>. Yes, Nattradio<\/strong>’s closest comparison is Katatonia<\/strong>, as songs like “Sketches from the Dark” and “Shifting Baseline” recall the slow, gloomy riffing of The Great Cold Distance<\/em>, but The Cure <\/strong>seems to seep into The Longest Night<\/em>’s formula just as often. Take the electronic drumming and wacky guitar effects of “Dark Streets” or the dreamy, heartbroken strings of “Rainbirds” and tell me you can’t picture Robert Smith listlessly crooning over them. Vocally, Martin Boman doesn’t have the grit typical to metal, but rather sits in the breathy middle of David Bowie and Thom Yorke. When engaged in ambient movements, Nattradio<\/strong> bring out the keys for spacious, dark atmospheres of jazzed-up smoothness that recall Poe<\/strong> and, similarly, could slide into the Alan Wake II <\/em>soundtrack<\/a>. Nattradio<\/strong> probably won’t hit for metal purists, but listeners of a wider range of genres might find a delightfully varied affair on The Longest Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n