After reaching crushing new highs on Part I of their forthcoming album trilogy, Green Carnation are descending into the deepest, darkest and most personal depths of the prog metal bandâs storied career with the newly released A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis.
âSanguis is lean, purposeful, and emotionally devastating in the way only music built from genuine anguish can beâ, Sonic Perspectives writes in an 8.8/10 review. âGreen Carnation have distilled their identity down to something sharper and more potent than everâ.
â[â¦]simply breathtaking for the band and the genreâ, Angry Metal Guy writes in a 4.5/5 review. “For those who need something in these trying times to bolster their spirits or tear them apart (if only for a moment to reset), Sanguis is here for youâ.
As they prepare to perform A Dark Poem on the worldâs stage, today, Green Carnation are releasing the full video for their new albumâs booming and bloodied title track. Upon its initial release back in February, âSanguisâ vowed to wash away the stains of the past with its impassioned cleans and unforgettable chorus. But the full video brings a traumatic memory from childhood flooding back with harrowing force during the songâs doomy coda.
Watch the full video for âSanguisâ on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
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If The Shores of Melancholia set sail from a familiar place of melancholy, then Sanguis opens with Green Carnation far out at sea, fighting to stay afloat against the storm thatâs raging in their minds. Over the course of nine minutes, the albumâs epic opener and title track vows to forgive and forget familial wreckage, washing away the bloody stains of the past with melodies that radiate conviction â only for a traumatic memory to come flooding back during its thunderous finale.
âFather was boiling, mother was crying / The children left scared in their bedsâ. A fiery shiver of a riff slowly spirals downward, as if trapped inside a mental hell.
âIt paints a pretty grim picture of my childhoodâ, Sordal says about âSanguisâ. âI do have great memories from that time, too, but parts were very dark. I had some tough issues with my father, but I now know that he had it worse. I didnât think about that when I was younger, but as Iâve gotten older, Iâve learned that there is usually more to the storyâ.
âIt took Stein Roger almost 50 years to understand why his father treated him the way he didâ, Nordhus says about his dear friend and bandmate. âHe didnât understand until he had kids of his own and was watching them grow upâ.
Catch Green Carnation during their upcoming hometown shows and European summer festival dates. During their headlining show in September at the Kilden Performing Arts Centre, the band will perform A Dark Poem in its entirety for the first and final time – including the as-of-yet unannounced Part III. Already, fans from 18 different countries have purchased tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime event. Â
Green Carnation 2026 Show Dates
June 6 – Tampere, Finland @ Ankea Festival [TICKETS]
June 14 – Kristiansand, Norway @ Odderøya [TICKETS]*
August 1 – Ungarn, Hungary @ Feke Zaj Festival [TICKETS]
September 12 – Kristiansand, Norway @ Kilden Performing Arts Centre [TICKETS]#
September 25 – Bucuresti, Romania @ Bucharest Prog Day II [TICKETS]
*Deep Purple, Turbonegro + Slomosa
#Performing A Dark Poem, Part 1-III
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