BEYOND THE HATE Release New Single ‘Black Within’ Feat. Katri Hiovain-Asikainen

Finnish melodic death metal band Beyond The Hate is set to release an anticipated debut album Darkest Times on March 8th 2024 via Inverse Records. The third single Black Within is released today with a lyric video. This track features Katri Hiovain-Asikainen from the Numento.

LISTEN to Black Within on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/bth-black – Artwork by Petri Lampela / petrilampela.com

“Black Within is one of the last songs written for the album. The process of writing it was quite easy, I wrote it in one day. Sometimes it’s easy to write a song when you have a clear vision and you don’t have to spend weeks or months on it. The song is one of the most atmospheric on the album, even a bit “ballad-like”. Already during the composition phase I knew that I had to have a female vocalist for this song and I had a clear candidate right away; Katri Hiovain-Asikainen from the Numento band. Luckily, Katri agreed immediately, because her beautiful voice took the song to another level.

The story of the song is written by our singer Niko. He wrote the lyrics for his own parts of the song and I wrote Katri’s. So far it’s the only song in the band with more than one lyricist. I think we managed to create a good story. The song is beautiful, but the lyrics are dark. It creates a good contrast to the song,” says Jyrki Karhu, the band’s guitarist and the song’s composer/songwriter, about the process of creating the song.”

“I was lost for a long time with the lyrics of this song, I had the verses and the chorus ready which I sing myself, but I didn’t really know what the acoustic parts would be. Fortunately, Jyrki stepped in at this point and wrote the missing lyrics, respecting the original idea. Katri then did a really great arrangement and a brilliant vocal performance, elevating this song to the level where it had to be made into one of three singles.” says vocalist Niko Kalinainen

WATCH music video Alone I Die: https://youtu.be/ZAKMfyt-Zto
LISTEN to the first single ‘The Lighthouse’ on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/bth-lighthouse

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