Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity released their long-awaited debut album Within the Slumber of the Mind on February 21st 2025 via Inverse Records.

LISTEN to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-album

Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments: 
”I love melodeath so the songwriting was really easy-going. We worked on this album for a long time, but I’m glad we did. I gathered a bunch of talented people around me for this project and now I just feel very proud of the album and my band mates.”

Album’s lyrical themes revolve around depression, death and my thoughts around these topics. I’ve used a lot of my own experiences in life while writing these lyrics and I feel like it has been some sort of therapy for me. This project is my baby and I want to give it my all.

Nikos from VisionBlack did an amazing job with the cover art I designed with him. He captured just the right feeling to his art what we were looking for.”

”We also got the priviledge to work with Juha Tapio and Sonja Lindberg and they did a phenomenal job.”

Track list:

1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio) 
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)

• Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
• Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
• Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack

Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90’s melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.

They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it’s time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!

Defiled Serenity CD/VINYL/MERCH Orders from HERE 

Line-up:

Paavo Laapotti – Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä – Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä – Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen – Bass
Arttu Airo – Drums

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Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity is set to release their long-awaited debut album Within the Slumber of the Mind on February 21st 2025 via Inverse Records.

The third single is Rihanna cover ‘Unfaithful’ and this track also features Karisma on vocals. 

Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments: 
”I’ve always loved making cover songs and especially when you do a metal cover of a pop song. I heard this song when I was younger and the melody got stuck in my head. This song is very suitable as a melodeath cover and I got the vision for it pretty quickly. We also got a very talented singer Sonja Lindberg to do a feature for this track. I met her while filming The Voice Of Finland program. She did an excellent job and I really like her unique sound a lot.”

LISTEN to ‘Unfaithful” on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-unfaithful

• ISRC: FI3FC2448010
• Single cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack

Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90’s melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.

They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it’s time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!

LISTEN to

• the first single ‘Your Worst Enemy’: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy 
• the second single ‘Exiled to Infinity”: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled 

Defiled Serenity CD/VINYL/MERCH Pre-Orders from HERE 

Within the Slumber of the Mind -Track list:

1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio) 
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)

• Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
• Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio

Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack

Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti – Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä – Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä – Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen – Bass
Arttu Airo – Drums

https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
https://www.instagram.com/defiledserenity
https://www.tiktok.com/@defiled.serenity
https://defiledserenity.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Tc6Fx3eJPc9XKqgBxnh7p

Finnish melodic death metal band Defiled Serenity is set to release their long-awaited debut album Within the Slumber of the Mind on February 21st 2025 via Inverse Records. The second single ‘Exiled to Infinity’ is released today and music video produced by Tuomas Saukkonen (Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Dawn Of Solace) can be seen below.

LISTEN to ‘Exiled to Infinity” on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled 

• Music & lyrics: Paavo Laapotti
• ISRC: FI3FC2448003
• Single cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack

Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments: 
”The song’s lyrics are about distressing and constant fear of death inside an individual’s head. He’s lost in his own mind and doesn’t know what is real and what is fake. He only has a strong feeling that he’s being chased and he’s forced to escape into the unknown.” ”This is one of the oldest songs written for this album and it has been waiting for the right moment to be released. Well, the day is finally here and I’m very glad that we got the right feel into the song that it needed.”

Defiled Serenity CD/VINYL/MERCH Pre-Orders from HERE

Within the Slumber of the Mind Track list:

1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio) 
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)

• Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
• Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
• Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack

Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti – Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä – Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä – Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen – Bass
Arttu Airo – Drums

https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
https://www.instagram.com/defiledserenity
https://www.tiktok.com/@defiled.serenity
https://defiledserenity.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Tc6Fx3eJPc9XKqgBxnh7p