FALLING LEAVES - PRESS KIT
Melodic death / doom metal. Formed 2009, Amman, Jordan. Based in Dubai, UAE.
Web: https://falling-leaves.com   Contact: info@falling-leaves.com

LINE-UP
Bashar Haroun (vocals), Ala'a Swalha (guitars), Fadi Stanboulieh (guitars), Ali M (bass)

LATEST RELEASE
The Silence That Binds Us (5 September 2025). Self-released (Falling Leaves Music).
Digipak CD limited to 300 copies via Meuse Music Records, MMR067.
Metal Storm Awards 2025: Top 10, Best Extreme Doom Metal Album.

SHORT BIO
Falling Leaves are a melodic death/doom band formed in Amman in 2009 and now based in Dubai. They are one of the few acts carrying the genre's slow, grieving tradition out of the Middle East.

LONG BIO
Drawing on My Dying Bride and Novembers Doom, the band writes about despair, memory and the passage of time. A self-released demo followed in May 2010. In 2012 came the debut full-length, Mournful Cry of a Dying Sun, on Endless Winter, mixed and mastered at Clintworks in Hamburg by Dennis Israel, former assistant engineer to Jens Bogren, with guests Paul Kuhr (Novembers Doom), Pete Johansen (The Sins of Thy Beloved, Tristania) and Olof Gothlin (Draconian).

In May 2014 the label took the band to Russia, for a headline show in Rostov-on-Don and Moscow Doom Festival VII alongside Skepticism. When visa paperwork stopped most of the line-up at Moscow airport, the shows went ahead with other musicians stepping in. The original line-up drifted apart afterwards; Ala'a Swalha moved from Amman to Dubai, kept writing with lyricist Murad Juneydi, and rebuilt the band there.

Thirteen years later came The Silence That Binds Us (September 2025): eight songs of grief and memory, produced by Ala'a Swalha, mixed by Alessandro Comerio at Daemon Star Studio in Italy and mastered by Dan Swano, with cover art by Travis Smith. Paul Kuhr returns on vocals, alongside session players Fabio Alessandrini (drums) and Ariel Perchuk (keyboards). Angry Metal Guy rated it 4.0 out of 5, and Metal Storm's 2025 awards named it a Top 10 extreme doom album of the year.

PRESS QUOTES
"Falling Leaves are reigniting my passion for an entire subgenre." - Angry Metal Guy, 4.0/5
"It's a monument." - Aux Portes du Metal, 18/20 (translated from French)
"Thoughtful, beautifully constructed death/doom." - The Metal Crypt, 4.25/5
"A gem of melodic doom/death." - Musika, 85/100 (translated from Dutch)

CREDITS
Band photo: Michel Kevork. Album artwork: Travis Smith.

LINKS
Bandcamp https://fallingleavesband.bandcamp.com
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7uUE3OEhgBKf8yVCKXSgvp
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fallingleavesofficial/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Falling-Leaves-band
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fallingleavesofficialband
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@fallingleavesband
