![]() ![]() Very little was heard from bandmembers in the aftermath, but Pelle and Gottfrid resurfaced as Pågå last year with an album too esoteric to make any wider impact, and the other band they share, Invidious, is on seemingly indefinite hiatus. The announcement on a Facebook post (opens in new tab) that it was amicable and due to changes in their personal lives, didn’t lessen the shock. Two years later, just as all their potential was being realised, the then five-piece suddenly split. Inspired by New York monoliths Swans (opens in new tab), but bringing all their gothic elements to the fore, Sister – along with Beastmilk (opens in new tab)’s Climax, released the same year – proved responsible for the goth/post-punk wave that’s still sweeping through the extreme metal scene and giving us its next big stars, Unto Others (opens in new tab). ![]() It was their third album, 2013’s Sister (opens in new tab), that threatened to make them one of underground metal’s biggest breakout bands. Add to that their ability to write songs like Serpents Are Rising that had all the freedom and galvanising potency of their forebears, not to mention their clear spiritual connection to fellow Uppsala-dwellers Watain (opens in new tab), and it’s no wonder they’d gained a devout cult following. Both the 2008 debut, In Solitude (opens in new tab) and the 2011 follow-up, The World.The Flesh.The Devil., were steeped in wide-eyed-in-the-shadows atmospheres that couldn’t have been conjured up without a being guided by an powerful internal compass.
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