SILVER LAKE BY ESA HOLOPAINEN To Release Self-Titled Debut Album On May 28th, Ft. Björn ‘Speed’ Strid, Anneke Van Giersbergen + Members of AMORPHIS, KATATONIA, LEPROUS + More

AMORPHIS guitarist Esa Holopainen‘s solo project SILVER LAKE will release the self-titled debut album on May 28th via Nuclear Blast!

Esa Holopainen on album: “Over the last few years, I have been writing a lot of music, and some of the stuff hasn’t exactly sounded like Amorphis. When Nino Laurenne, owner of Sonic Pump Studios called me late March, I already had three decent-sounding SILVER LAKE songs in stock. These tracks, entitled ‘Sentiment’, ‘Ray of Light’ and ‘Promising Sun’, worked as the backbone for the full solo album.”

“At first, I really didn’t know if the album would turn out to be purely instrumental or would there be vocalists as well. However, one thing was certain, I wouldn’t be the singer of SILVER LAKE. Therefore I started to ask several friends and favourite singers of mine that joined me from their home studios on these 9 new tracks to be featured on SILVER LAKE By ESA HOLOPAINEN”

Silver Lake (instrumental)
Sentiment (feat. Jonas Renkse of Katatonia)
Storm (feat. Håkan Hemlin of Nordman)
Ray Of Light (feat. Einar Solberg of Leprous)
Alkusointu (feat. Vesa-Matti Loiri)
In Her Solitude (feat Tomi Joutsen of Amorphis)
Promising Sun (feat. Björn ‘Speed’ Strid of Soilwork / The Night Flight Orchestra)
Fading Moon (feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen)
Apprentice (feat. Jonas Renkse of Katatonia)

The moody cover art work was created by Metastazis.

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