Initially formed only by Aidan Baker (and then I reviewed his "Skin turns to Glass") Nadja turned the initial Sunn O))) approach into something more varied (remaining always into the doom metal realm) thanks to the help of the new member Leah Buckareff. RADIANCE OF SHADOWS is their fourth studio album (without counting the Cd-r releases which they are re-recording and reissuing) and it contains three tracks (two new ones and I think a new version of "I have tasted the fire inside your mouth", previously available as a 3" CD-r). The album opens with the 23' of "Now I become death the destroyer of worlds", a track which slowly leads you toward a path made of guitar drones, cripple drum rhythms and tiny melodies which sound like brush hits on a black canvas. The track has different moments where the sound hit a high level of saturation just to drop down and start again to grow, reaching an higher level. The aforementioned "I have tasted the fire inside your mouth", instead is based more on a song structure that you can compare to a slowed down and distorted version of Codeine. Here you can find also some lyrics about the effect of an involving love. The song, after about 15' of slow noisy introspection, pushes the speed/distortion pedal by becoming a roller coaster of emotions/sounds with wall of sounds and stops and go. Maybe this is the one I appreciated most... The closing "Radiance of shadows" has lyrics which seems to talk again about total love where men burned down to ashes by the intensity of passion, penetrate into the lover's skin and causes the melting of the two turning them into a shadow. The track starts with a minimal guitar riff and the voice of Aidan and then it blasts off after nine minutes (maybe when it reaches the meltdown point) just to burn everything down during the remaining twenty minutes.