DAYS OF JUPITER – The World Was Never Enough (2025) *HQ*
Over the past 14 years, Swedish band DAYS OF JUPITER has become a permanent fixture in the hard rock/metal scene. The group has released four albums to date, two of them featured on this website showcasing they were an act with a lot of potential.
Well, that climax in maturity for DAYS OF JUPITER has arrived with their brand new album ”The World Was Never Enough”. It’s truly impressive how good this five-piece has evolved.
So, what do they sound like 2025? Imagine if you took the eponymous Euro-Rock vocal sounds, and sent them careering head-on into American Hard Rock / Modern Metal, and you’d be somewhere pretty close. It’s the details and the little twists that make this longplayer so charming, with a dynamic and high-octane sound, which is a kind of dot on the “I”, contributing to the positive perception.
Album opener, ‘Original Sin’, starts off with the rapidly metered ‘beep’ of what sounds like a hospital heart monitor. This gives way to the pacey, heavy instrumentation that’s seen throughout the album, and the slightly raspy, but clean vocals of Janne Hill. It’s a thunderous track with all the elements you’d want from any good modern hard and heavy Rock / Metal banger. And you really can bang your head to this.
On ”The World Was Never Enough” the band pushed the envelope, as it’s a pretty commercial collection of songs, yet complex at the same time. So, the technicality and rhythms of Tech Metal are there, but they’re just delivered in a softer, more rocking-like way. Second song, title track ‘The World Was Never Enough’, is the first example of this on the album, but it’s a pretty standard musical trope throughout.
The thing that keeps this whole record completely rooted on the ‘Rock’ side of the fence, is the ridiculously catchy melodies and choruses. I was singing along with them all by my second listen. And that’s a very clever thing to achieve because it not only makes the songs relatable, but also memorable.
However, there’s kind of cynicism in the lyrics, and a dark / somber overtone to this record too, with most tracks being in a minor key, and feeling weighty and determined – like an acceptance of the inevitability of life, and the mortality of humanity. It’s kind of a Doom mindset trapped in the body of radio-friendly Rock/ Metal.
While the album starts out pacey and full of grit, track 4, ‘Desolation’, strips everything right back to create a mournful and melancholy acoustic ballad, and a fine one. Starting with guitar and vocals, it builds gently, adding in bass and keys. This is the only ballad we get on the album, and it almost feels like a moment of quiet solitude, within the listeners own mind, before the album heads like a steam train into another brutal multi-genre assault.
There isn’t a single duff track on ”The World Was Never Enough”, and the more you listen, the more you enjoy it. It’s as Melodic as it is Heavy, as Metal as it is Rock, as Progressive as it is Standard-form, and truly an easy body of work to listen to and be amused by.
Despite 2025 only being in its infancy, we can confidently say if you like the more modern and mainstream Hard Rock or Metal genres but with substance, this will be one of the best and most accomplished albums you’ll hear this year.
Highly Recommended
01 – Original Sin
02 – The World Was Never Enough
03 – Machine
04 – Desolation
05 – The Fix
06 – Parazite
07 – My Heaven My Hell
08 – Denial
09 – Ignite
10 – Invincible
Jan Hilli – Vocals
Jörgen Hellström – Guitar
Janne Karlsson – Bass
Magnus Larsson – Drums
Marcus Lindman – Guitar
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