THIS GIFT IS A CURSE, the Stockholm blackened sludge band, announce a run of European and UK dates supporting Dragged Into Sunlight in May 2027, alongside Mizmor. The tour opens in Vienna on May 5th and closes in Liverpool on May 23rd, covering nineteen shows across nine countries, from Austria and Poland through Scandinavia and Germany to the Netherlands and the UK.
Formed in 2008, the band build their sound from blackened sludge with hardcore roots, leaning increasingly toward post-metal and drone. Their live record has been built largely in Scandinavia, including a run supporting Cult of Luna in 2019 and a Stockholm support slot for Gaerea in April 2025, and the May dates will bring that heavy, slow-turning material to a much wider map of rooms.
Tour Dates:
5 May: Vienna, AT @ Arena
6 May: Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse
7 May: Kraków, PL @ Hype Park
8 May: Ostrava, CZ @ Barrack Music Club
9 May: Dresden, DE @ Chemiefabrik
10 May: Hamburg, DE @ Bahnhof Pauli
11 May: Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall
12 May: Oslo, NO @ John Dee
13 May: Gothenburg, SE @ Monument
14 May: Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan
15 May: Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossaal Weekend
16 May: Berlin, DE @ SO36
17 May: Cologne, DE @ Club Volta
18 May: Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
19 May: Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
20 May: London, UK @ The Garage
21 May: Bristol, UK @ Exchange
22 May: Newcastle, UK @ Digital
23 May: Liverpool, UK @ Hangar 34
Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/draggedintosunlighttickets
Heir, the band’s latest record, was released on March 7th, 2025, through Season of Mist and runs to ten tracks and just over an hour. It was produced, engineered and mixed by William Blackmon at The Overlook Studio in Gävle and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios in Stockholm, with guest vocals from Laura Morgan of Livmødr on Kingdom, Old Space and Ascension.
Order & Stream: https://orcd.co/thisgiftisacurseheir
Tracklist:
1. Kingdom (5:43)
2. No Sun, nor Moon (8:17)
3. Void Bringer (9:17)
4. Death Maker (4:26)
5. Passing (2:17)
6. Seers of No Light (5:52)
7. Cosmic Voice (6:51)
8. Vow Sayer (6:00)
9. Old Space (8:42)
10. Ascension (9:17)
Total runtime: 1:06:44
There’s an abyssal depth reaching far below—where light is devoured by shadow, and silence is torn asunder by cacophony.
Down below, there thrives a beast most foul and majestic. This beast, known among the living as THIS GIFT IS A CURSE, has clawed its way through the bedrock—leaving a trail of desola-tion and awe in its wake. As 2025 dawned bleak and uncertain, the beast unleashed its latest apocalypse, Heir.
Since its infernal birth, This Gift Is a Curse has been a harbinger of the end times for the conventional and the mundane. A cataclysmic fusion of black metal ferocity, sludge-laden doom, and a haunting ambience straight from the depths of the nether, has torn apart stages and souls alike. Now, with Heir, they cast the world into a new age of darkness.
This Gift Is a Curse were founded in Stockholm by a fateful chance meeting of vocalist Jonas A. Holmberg and drummer Johan Nordlund in late summer 2008. The duo soon recruited guitarist Patrik Andersson and Lars Gunnarsson on bass. In March 2010 the Swedish four-piece entered the legendary Sunlight Studios (ENTOMBED, KATA-TONIA, TIAMAT, DISMEMBER and many more) and recorded their self-titled debut EP with the aid of producer Tomas Skogsberg. This Gift Is a Curse (2010) was well received in the underground and led to the band being invited to perform many shows in their homeland and Europe. During the second half of 2011, This Gift Is a Curse recorded their first full-length I, Gvilt Bearer at a secret location north of Stockholm. Their producer Magbjork (MELEEH, CHILDREN OF FALL) moved his studio to this specific location to allow the band to unlimited record possibilities. Released in 2012, the album caused a buzz that reached beyond the underground and quickly sold out its first pressings. More touring followed during the next two years. In 2014, This Gift Is a Curse teamed up with Magbjork once again to record All Hail the Swinelord in an abandoned house close to Stockholm.
After the release in 2015, a few Scandinavian and European tours followed before the band decided it was time to go back into the void to write new music. This process started with the recruitment of a second guitarist in order to push the sonic experience even further. David Deravian, hailing from steel town Eskilstuna, joined the cursed ranks of This Gift Is a Curse in 2016, adding fresh creative blood and new musical in-put to the sonic pot. As the new material took form, the band not only booked studio time with the great W. Blackmon of the Overlook Studios in Gävle (SE), but also kept their roots by recording parts of the album at Norra Begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Afterwards, mastering was done by none other than Magnus Lindberg (CULT OF LUNA, TRIBULATION, ALCEST etc).
This Gift Is a Curse defies the transient trends of music, in-stead choosing to carve its path with the bones of the fallen. Their latest album, Heir, is a relentless pursuit of the extreme, a mosaic of human suffering and the dark beauty that lies within. As the album sears its mark upon the world, one thing is clear: There will be no heirs to the throne of dark-ness that This Gift Is a Curse occupies. The crown is theirs alone, forged in the fires of creation and destruction, a beacon for those who dare to walk the shadows.
Line-up:
Jonas A. Holmberg — Vocals
Patrik Andersson — Guitars, Vocals
David Deravian — Guitars
Lars Gunnarsson — Bass
Christian Augustin — Drums
Follow This Gift Is A Curse:
Bandcamp: http://thisgiftisacurse.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thisgiftisacurse
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisgiftisacurse/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7MoipbqoshfYNfckhzRtYC
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/this-gift-is-a-curse/405256386
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/1005843
TIDAL: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/3813169
