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Tuomas Saukkonen Joins Forces With Ukrainian WOLFANGER’s Petro Solovey And Release New Single ‘Glory to the Heroes’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 18, 2022
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Wolfheart leader Tuomas Saukkonen teamed up with Petro Solovey, the frontman of the Ukrainian melodic death metal band Wolfanger, to release the single “Glory to the Heroes”. With Petro on vocal and lyric duties and Tuomas providing the music, all royalties of the track will be donated to www.comebackalive.in.ua and the label Stay Heavy Records has agreed to donate 1000€ of royalties upfront as help for Ukraine is needed as soon as possible! In addition Wolfheart, Before The Dawn and Dawn of Solace are offering their support with a joint merch campaign provided by RECORDSHOP X, with all proceeds going directly to www.comebackalive.in.ua.

Petro and Tuomas already collaborated on the Wolfheart single “Skull Soldiers”, released in March 2021, which paid tribute to the legendary Finnish soldiers of the Winter War (1939-1940), and just one year later they are back in the studio to honor the fighting heroes of Ukraine.

Petro Solovey comments:
“The song is about the Ukrainian people, who became more united than ever at the sight of the threat. We fight not only armed but also with our bare hands, defending the lives of our loved ones, our landand our freedom. On February 24th we met the enemy face to face. We are united and that is our main weapon.“

Tuomas Saukkonen adds:
“Slava Ukraini, Heroiam slava!“

“Glory to the Heroes” is now available on all digital platforms

Tuomas Saukkonen Announces End Of BEFORE THE DAWN, BLACK SUN AEON, DAWN OF SOLACE And ROUTASIELU; Will Focus On WOLFHEART

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 11, 2013
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Source: Bravewords.com

After 14 successful years with seven studio albums, mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen has now decided to put an end to his dark/melancholic melodic death metal band, BEFORE THE DAWN, as well as to all of his other current projects, including BLACK SUN AEON, DAWN OF SOLACE and ROUTASIELU.

“I’ve already been thinking about this for a few years”, Tuomas states. “At some point I realized I was keeping the band alive without feeling right anymore. I lost the passion to make music my own way. Now that Before The Dawn is done, it’s logical for me to clean the table completely and start building something from scratch again.”

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As far as his new goals are concerned, the multi-instrumentalist explains: “From now on I’ll solely focus on my new band called WOLFHEART – all my attention and energy shall flow into it. My main intention is to create a band that combines Before The Dawn’s engery with the low-tuned, dark, heavy and epic atmosphere of Black Sun Aeon.”

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In order to give you a first impression of what WOLFHEART will sound like, Tuomas has uploaded a teaser to his official YouTube channel. Watch it below:

To stay posted on future Wolfheart related news, like the band’s Facebook page.

Finnish Kaaoszine has done an in-depth interview with Tuomas about the reasons for his decision to end Before The Dawn and his future plans with Wolfheart. Read it here (scroll down for the English version).

On the 23rd of February, Before The Dawn, Black Sun Aeon and Routasielu can be seen on stage for the last time over the course of a farewell show at Finland Klubi in Lahti, Finland. Before that, a small Finnish unplugged tour with members of Before The Dawn and Black Sun Aeon playing a best-of acoustic set of their repertoire plus a variety of songs by DAWN OF SOLACE will happen:

February
8 – Nuclear Nightclub – Oulu, Finland
9 – Amarillo – Lahti, Finland
15 – Musta Kynnys – Jyväskylä, Finland
16 – Rytmikatti – Kouvola, Finland

Later this year, Before The Dawn’s Finnish label Stay Heavy Records will release a 3CD best-of box entitled My Darkness, including songs by all of Tuomas’ bands. Keep an eye out for updates on this.

Saukkonen’s last words are dedicated to the fans of all of his projects: “Even though a lot of things will change, the music I’ve created will never disappear and I am working on new music at the moment, even though under a different name. I hope to see everybody in Lahti on the farewell show and after that many times at Wolfheart shows. You’re the best!”

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BEFORE THE DAWN: Tuomas Saukkonen Teams Up With TEHO Energy Drink

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 13, 2012
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Nuclear Blast has issued that Tuomas Saukkonen – front man of Finnish melodic death metallers BEFORE THE DAWN, who’s known for his inexhaustible drive towards creating music – has inked an official endorsement deal with TEHO (Finnish for “power”) – “the most Finnish energy drink in the world”!

Saukkonen comments: “I feel honoured and extremely happy to be supported by my most favourite energy drink of all. I’ve never felt a lack of energy, but as of now, I will be powered to the maximum!”

Click here to watch the corresponding video announcement, created by OneManArmy Productions:

For further information on TEHO, visit: http://www.olvi.fi/web/fi/energiajuomat

Interview With Before The Dawn – Tuomas Saukkonen: My Music Is A Documentation Of “That Precise Moment”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 24, 2011
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Back in 1999, when Tuomas Saukkonen felt the need to break his routines as a drummer of a local band, his new metal project called BEFORE THE DAWN was born. As soon as the studio was booked, the following demo session started a decade that brought 3 demos, 5 full length albums, 1 DVD and 2 mini albums. BEFORE THE DAWN also hit both single and album charts in the bands home country Finland many times. Their 6th album “Deathstar Rising” will be released on 25 February via Nuclear Blast.

Some weeks ago I had a nice long chat with Tuomas, in fact, instead of the allowed 30 minutes we talked about an hour… but there were too many interesting things to talk about, and it seemed the time flew with wings…

Hi Thomas, and welcome to Metal Shock! How things are going?

Thank you, Tarja, they’re going very good! There are plenty of so-called “good-alike-hurry”.

Can you tell us a brief description of who you are, that is, Before the Dawn members and their roles in the band?

As a Band, we’re about 12 years old, 4-piece Finnish heavy metal band. The project started as my solo project, but over the years new members jumped in. Our solo guitarist Juho Räihä is also our sound engineer, who recorded and mixed the latest album “Deathstar Rising”.  I produced it, and I play guitar and I’m the lead singer. You know, while recording the album there were no “outsiders” there in the studio, but we handled everything by ourselves. Norwegian-Finnish Lars Eikind is our bassist / vocalist and has also done a lot of studio work. This completely “self-made” -pattern became gradually as our normal way to do, also because I’ve done for years everything by myself, as well as Juho has done these things for a long time. So, the work in the studio is going well and smoothly, as all of us can work in a professional way, so the result is the best possible, just the way we want, and quickly. Just think that the recordings went all in under two weeks’ time, plus mixing, but the time we spent in all for this album, were three and a half weeks, 8-10 hours a day, and the whole album was ready. After all, this is our sixth album, so we’ve practiced well and we’ve cut off the so-called useless mess.
Our fourth member is Atte Palokangas, he has been our session drummer for two years (and well over 100 gigs). To all of us it was already clear that Atte will stay in the band, but for some reasons his status was still “open”, so when we realized that he hadn’t yet been made permanent, we wanted to fix the situation right before entering the studio 🙂
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