With ‘Woven Into Sorrow’ Finnish death doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN present a new single and video taken off their upcoming album ‘Moonflowers’, which will be released worldwide on November 19th and can be pre-ordered as of today.
The brand-new track is the first heavy version to be released of the record, as the band already released very special classical editions of the regular album songs. Both versions – classical string and regular album version – are as dark and mournful as we are accustomed to SWALLOW THE SUN.
Frontman Mikko Kotamäki comments, “Here it is! The first single of ‘Moonflowers’ is out! ‘Woven Into Sorrow’ is probably thegloomiest track of the album. The backing growls for this song came by Antti Hyyrynen from Stam1na.Enjoy the misery!”
Watch the video to ‘Woven Into Sorrow’ HERE:
‘Moonflowers’ will be available as Ltd. Deluxe sky blue 3LP+2CD & Art Print Box Set, Ltd. 2CD Mediabook, Gatefold black 2LP+CD and digital album (incl. Bonus album) and can be pre-ordered HERE: https://swallowthesun.lnk.to/Moonflowers as of now.
Watch all the already published classical Trio N O X versions HERE:
Finnish death doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN release a short documentary about the making of “Trio N O X plays Moonflowers Live At Sipoo Church“, the bonus album of their upcoming release “Moonflowers“, which will be released on November 19th, 2021 featuring classical song versions of the regular album tracks.
Interviews by Timo Isoaho with the members of Trio N O X and Swallow The Sun explain along some impressive video footage from the recording place, how the re-arranged string versions emerged and how magical it felt for the musicians to perform the songs live at Sipoo Church. The album was mixed and mastered by Juho Räihä (SoundSpiral Audio).
Trio N O X are: Aino Rautakorpi – Violin Helena Dumell – Viola Annika Furstenborg – Cello Grand Piano by Krista Ruusunen
The documentary was directed and filmed by Sam Jamsen and was edited by Sam Jamsen & Rudolf Westerholm.
Over the past six weeks, SWALLOW THE SUN have released several of these classical tracks, one new track each week, along with animated videos produced by Dronicon Films.
All videos already published can be watched at the following locations:
In all the silence, Finnish death doom masters, SWALLOW THE SUN, have written, recorded and mixed anew album called “Moonflowers”. It is done and ready and will be released on November 19th , 2021.
Along with some of the album formats, there will alsocome a full bonus album featuring very special instrumental versions of all the regular album tracks. This instrumental album has beencomposed for strings and recorded at Sipoo Church in Finland. The strings were performed by the group called “Trio NOX” from Finland.
Starting today, all these instrumental songs will be launched as animated videos, which were created by Dronicon Films.One by one every week, leading up to the first single release of the main album.
“I know well that I should not say this, but I deeply hate this album. I hate where it takes me, how it makes me feel and what it stands for me personally. I wish it wouldn’t. But for all its honesty I got no option than also love it. That is all that matters to me with the music anyway and it doesn’t matter how it makes me feel, as long as it does. For me this album is like a mirror of a deep self-disappointment. Even I still want to believe that there is and could be more than this in me. But I don’t need or want to talk more about it. After all music means so different things to each one of us by how we have walked our own paths, and that is a beautiful thing about music. There is no right or wrong.
After I had finished writing all the music for this record in the fall of 2020 I started to write these small instrumental versions of the album songs for the violin, viola, cello and piano. Mostly because I was wondering how it would feel like to hear all these songs first as these intimate versions instead of a full band album. It was really beautiful to see and hear these songs come alive in this way and form, recorded live in this big church in Finland. To be able to hear the echoes of this music reflecting from the church walls and feel the very soul of these old wooden instruments played by real people in this sacred place. Something about hearing the strings breathe this fragile beauty into these songs that carry so much pain otherwise. Now looking back, maybe I wrote these versions just for myself to be able to hear and feel at least some kind of a beauty and solace in these songs, maybe…
I wanted to create the cover art of this album myself this time, so it would stand as brutally honest for me as the music is. So I painted the moon on the ‘Moonflowers‘ cover with my own blood and I decorated it with the flowers I picked up and dried on the spring of 2016. Maybe it isn’t the most outstanding looking piece of art ever made in this world, but for me it is everything. I wasn’t going to write any new music before I would have moved towards the right direction in my life, but finally all this music just forced itself out of me during the long nights of this hope crushing and neverending lockdown prison. Something grew out from that void eventually and writing these songs made me think a lot about moonflowers that bloom at the darkest hour of the night, so that name felt right to call the album also.
All my love to you, take care.
-Juha Raivio-“
“Moonflowers” tracklist:
Moonflowers Bloom In Misery
Enemy
Woven Into Sorrow
Keep Your Heart Safe From Me
All Hallows’ Grieve (Featuring Cammie Gilbert)
The Void
The Fight Of Your Life
This House Has No Home
Raivio further states, “In other news, unfortunately our busy brother Jaani will step aside from the band at least for this new album cycle, but we are happy to tell that you can hear Jaani’s backing vocals on the new album anyway.”
Jaani Peuhu adds, “Sadly, Corona virus messed up everything including the release schedules of my bands. Both the Mercury Circle and Swallow The Sun albums are being released at the same time, making it impossible for me to tour with both bands. For this reason, I decided that it’d be better for me to solely focus on MC for this release cycle.
That being said, the upcoming Swallow The Sun album will be amazing, and
I am so happy we could still do it together. I wish the best of luck to
Finnish death doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN released a live track and video for “66°50′N, 28°40′E (Live in Helsinki)”. The song is taken off the bands upcoming live album entitled “20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair – Live in Helsinki”, which will be released tomorrow.
“We were supposed to play anniversary shows in Europe and North America,” vocalist Mikko Kotamäki recalls. “We started our European tour in Finland in February 2020 and played 10 gigs. Everything got canceled two weeks after that. Luckily, we filmed and recorded our gig in Helsinki. Now, everyone can see it. At the time, we didn’t know the footage or recordings would be used for this purpose.”
Finnish death doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN release their first live track and video for “Don’t Fall Asleep (Horror, Pt. II) [Live in Helsinki]” today via Century Media Records. The song is taken off the bands upcoming live album entitled “20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair – Live in Helsinki”, which will be released on the 30th of July 2021. Watch the live video for “Don’t Fall Asleep (Horror, Pt. II) [Live in Helsinki]”, HERE:
“We were supposed to play anniversary shows in Europe and North America,” vocalist Mikko Kotamäki recalls. “We started our European tour in Finland in February 2020 and played 10 gigs. Everything got canceled two weeks after that. Luckily, we filmed and recorded our gig in Helsinki. Now, everyone can see it. At the time, we didn’t know the footage or recordings would be used for this purpose.”
About the song the band comments, “This is the first single from our upcoming live album. ‘Don’t Fall Asleep’ is an old classic from 2007, which was also released as a single from our “Hope” album backthen. We played a special fan voted setlist that night in Helsinki.
“Don’t Fall Asleep (Horror, Pt. II) [Live in Helsinki]” Tracklisting:
Set one
The Womb Of Winter
The Heart Of A Cold White Land
Away
Pray For The Winds To Come
Songs From The North
66°50′N, 28°40′E
Autumn Fire
Before the Summer Dies
Set two
Lost & Catatonic
Empires of Loneliness
Falling World
Cathedral Walls
Plague of Butterflies, Pt. II
Don’t Fall Asleep (Horror, Pt. II)
Stone Wings
The Giant
Swallow (Horror, Pt. I)
Here on the Black Earth
SWALLOW THE SUN are:
Juha Raivio – guitars Matti Honkonen – bass Mikko Kotamäki – vocals Juuso Raatikainen – drums Juho Räihä – guitars Jaani Peuhu – keyboards/backing vocals
Today, Finnish doom stars SWALLOW THE SUN announce their first ever live album “20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live in Helsinki“! It will be released on July 30th, 2021 via Century Media Records.
“Finally some good news after a year of cancellations and shitshow! We managed to play only 10 of these special 20th anniversary gigs before the whole world shut down in March 2020 and the rest of the tour got cancelled. Luckily we filmed and recorded one of the gigs, which we now release as our very first live album as we wait to be able to get back on stages again. Enjoy!“, comments Mikko Kotamäki
About the production he states, “We played the whole „Songs from the North II“ with a string quartet—comprised of very professional musicians, two of whom played on our previous album and appeared with us on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise in 2018. For the first time, we also asked our fans on social media to vote for their favorite songs from each album. We then played the most-voted songs from every album.“
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