Respected purveyors of the most cultured, melodic and melancholic doom/death metal, France’s Inborn Suffering have announced a new alliance with Ardua Music, a label whose roster is overflowing with riches of the gravest and most majestic of bands. Together, band and label will unveil the first new Inborn Suffering album since 2010 – Pale Grey Monochrome. This stunning collection of songs preserves the mournful, reflective soul of Inborn Suffering, but somehow reaches new heights of melodic beauty and plunges to new depths of absolute desolation and despair. Set for release on February 7th 2025, Pale Grey Monochrome will capture the hearts of the doomed and the damned, all devotees of the most sombre and introspective sounds.
Inborn Suffering first formed in Paris back in 2002 and over the course of the following eight years they established themselves as masters of doom, spinning tragic tales across foundations of colossal riffs and ethereal melody. They performed alongside fellow overlords of the doom/death underground like Swallow The Sun, Saturnus and Mourning Beloveth and produced two critically acclaimed albums – Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness – before stepping away from the scene in 2010. It would be eleven years before Inborn Suffering began to stir again, but when the flame of creativity was alight once more, the new music began to flow. Pale Grey Monochrome was recorded in 2024 and mastered by Déhà of Opus Magnum Studio (Wolvennest, Deadspace, Decline Of The I etc).
Ardua Music were happy to welcome the rejuvenated Inborn Suffering to their ranks and in February they will not only release the new Pale Grey Monochrome album, but also reissue Inborn Suffering’s two revered early albums, Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness.
A first taste of Pale Grey Monochrome’s moribund magnificence can be experienced at the Ardua Music YouTube channel in the form of new single, ‘From Lowering Tides‘:
