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Shrouded In Darkness - 11:11 - Reviewed By Sweden Rock! Wednesday July 30 2025, 5:32 PM

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Shrouded In Darkness - 11:11 - Reviewed By Sweden Rock!

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Shrouded in Darkness Score High Praise in Sweden Rock Magazine!

New Album 11:11 Out Now via Black Vulture Records

Swedish death/doom trio Shrouded in Darkness continue their haunting rise with a powerful new feature in Sweden Rock Magazine , the country’s legendary rock and metal bible. In the June 2025 issue (featuring Alice Cooper on the cover) , renowned critic Jesper Löfvenborg delivers a glowing 7/10 review of the band’s third full-length album 11:11 , calling it:

"A shroud of mourning that never lets go… the band’s sorrowfully doomsday death metal is supported by a compact atmospheric darkness... hypnotic and emotionally resonant."

Löfvenborg also highlighted the crushing opener “No Escape,” praised the band’s hypnotic, emotionally immersive sound, and singled out the track “Cruel Winds” for its effective contrast brought by guest vocalist Camilla Tjernberg .

Read the full review below.

Go grab a copy of the magazine here: https://swedenrockmagazine.com/

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Shrouded In Darkness
11:11
BLACK VULTURE / DOWNFALL
Funeral/death metal

You are immediately thrown into a mood-setting organ intro that paves the gravel path to the opening "No escape" and Shrouded In Darkness's seriously heavy crypt. The songs exceed the consistent five-minute mark, which is both expressive and creatively reasonable. I could even accept if the album only contained one long track, so that the creation from Gothenburg could flow without seams.

"11:11" is embraced as a shroud of mourning that never lets go, yet guides both the music and my emotional experience. Slowly I am transported forward and eventually the monotonous sound image becomes somewhat hypnotic. I wish they had used Camilla Tjernberg’s vocals more; her contribution in "Cruel Winds" creates an effective contrast to the music’s doom-soaked vein. The band's sorrowfully doomsday death metal is supported by a compact atmospheric darkness and the closing title track echoes far beyond what I usually seek from a funeral bier to instead search for the nuanced details in the shadows.

Rating: 7/10
– Jesper Löfvenborg

The timing of this recognition couldn’t be better as the band recently unveiled the official lyric video for “The Lurking Devil” —a standout cut from 11:11 that blends relentless death metal heaviness with a bleak doom-laden atmosphere.

🎥 Watch “The Lurking Devil” (Official Lyric Video):

About the Album: 11:11

Released on May 30th, 2025 via Black Vulture Records , 11:11 is the band’s most ominous and hypnotic effort to date—eight tracks of emotionally-charged death/doom that channels the desolate spirit of early Paradise Lost , My Dying Bride , and Evoken .