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Shape Of Despair
Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland. History The band was founded in 1995 as ''Raven'' by Jarno Salomaa (guitars, later also keyboards), Tomi Ullgrén (bass, later also guitars) and Toni "Otso" Mäensivu (drums, later also vocals) as a faster, instrumental black metal influenced band following the footsteps of their contemporaries like Strid, Burzum, Darkthrone and Unholy. The trio soon realized that the music they played was not as good as they would have wanted, lacking the atmosphere and emotion of the bands that influenced them. During the summer of 1995 Raven recorded their rehearsals with a simple cassette recorder, capturing all the songs that later became the ''Alone In The Mist'' demo, for the first time on tape. After listening to the rehearsal tape and realizing they actually had something in their hands they could stand behind, Raven wanted to record the tracks in a proper studio. It took the band three years to do it. Raven entered Arkki-studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illusion's Play
''Illusion's Play'' is funeral doom metal band Shape of Despair's third studio album. Track listing # "Sleep Mirrored (Instrumental)" – 6:09 # "Still-Motion" – 16:29 # "Entwined in Misery" – 8:03 # "Curse Life" – 9:18 # "Fragile Emptiness" – 8:56 # "Illusion's Play" – 12:36 :All music & lyrics written in years '00-'02 by Jarno Salomaa. Recording information *Engineered & mixed by Kaide Hinkkala & Antti Lindell *Mastered at Finnvox Studios by Mika Jussila Credits Shape of Despair * Pasi Koskinen – vocals * Natalie Koskinen – vocals * Jarno Salomaa – guitars & synth * Tomi Ullgren – guitars * Sami Uusitalo Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo (born 1977) is a bass guitarist best known from the folk metal band Finntroll and the funeral doom band Shape of Despair. He also plays in the folk/doom metal Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music tha ... – bass * Samu Ruotsalainen – drums Guest musicians * Toni Raehalme – violin * Aslak Tolonen – k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The Helsinki urban area, city's urban area has a population of , making it by far the List of urban areas in Finland by population, most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has History of Helsinki, close historical ties with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen (and surrounding commuter towns, including the eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarno Salomaa
Jarno Salomaa, also credited as J.S,, is a Finnish musician. He formed the funeral doom metal group Shape of Despair in 1995 under the name Raven (not to be confused with the NWOBHM band, Raven). Salomaa's first role was guitars and synth in Raven's ''Alone in the Mist'', the first demo they made, although this demo was not released to the public. Salomaa then proceeded to appear in the first CD produced under the name Shape of Despair called '' Promo Tape 1998''. While not a very grand name, the album contains the well-received songs of ''Quiet These Paintings Are'' and its outro entitled ''Outro''. An ex-member of the Finnish band Rapture, he is also a part of the doom/folk metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for exampl ... band The Mist and the Morning Dew with the rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Season Of Mist
Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal, and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing albums of avant-garde metal, gothic metal and punk bands as well. The label has two offices, one in Marseille, France and one in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Music From the beginning, Season of Mist focused on releasing more extreme metal records by stylistically diverse bands like Oxiplegatz, Bethzaida and Kampfar. With the signing of Norwegian legends Mayhem in 1999, the label's profile clearly shifted towards black metal and attracted internationally renowned artists like Carpathian Forest, Rotting Christ, Arcturus, and Solefald, with the latter two representing a marked progressive and avant-garde side to Season of Mist. While staying close to its black metal roots w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monotony Fields
''Monotony Fields'' is the fourth studio album by Finnish funeral doom metal band Shape of Despair, released on June 15, 2015 by Season of Mist as CD digipak and LP. It is the first album to feature Henri Koivula on lead vocals. The song "Written in My Scars" was first released on the EP ''Written in My Scars'', but was re-recorded for this album. Musical style The album continues the atmospheric funeral doom the band has been playing since their first album '' Shades of...''. It is described as "melancholic and atmospheric", with "morose guitar lines" and "tragic ambient keyboards". The death grunts are "masterfully delivered", the female vocals are "gelid" and "angelic". Track listing Personnel Shape of Despair * Henri Koivula – vocals * Natalie Koskinen – vocals * Jarno Salomaa – guitars & synth * Tomi Ullgren – guitars * Sami Uusitalo Sami "Tundra" Uusitalo (born 1977) is a bass guitarist best known from the folk metal band Finntroll and the funeral doom ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shape Of Despair (album)
''Shape of Despair'' is funeral doom metal band Shape of Despair's self-titled album. It was released on the 10th anniversary of the band's formation (counting the years the band was known as "Raven", from 1995 to 1998), but not in honor of the occasion. The album features previously unreleased songs and demos of older songs, while some of them are under the former moniker "Raven", as well as the new song "Sleeping Murder" that had a "guess the lyrics" competition. Track listing # "Sleeping Murder" – 8:35 # "Night's Dew" (instrumental) – 4:16 # "Sylvan-Night" – 10:23 # "Quiet These Paintings Are/Outro" – 12:02 # "To Adorn" – 8:52 # "Shadowed Dreams" – 9:41 # "In the Mist" (instrumental) – 9:52 Track information ''Sleeping Murder'' *The band have a competition to guess the lyrics for this song. ''Night's Dew'' *This version is an edit of the original from the Angels of Distress album. ''Sylvan-Night'' *This is the unfinished version of the original on the Shades o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Distress
''Angels of Distress'' is funeral doom metal band Shape of Despair's second studio album. It was mastered in Finnvox by Mika Jussila. The album is packaged in a digipak and includes no booklet, though the lyrics can be viewed on the band's official website. Track listing # "Fallen" – 6:09 # "Angels of Distress" – 9:43 # "Quiet These Paintings Are" – 14:40 # "...To Live for My Death..." – 17:22 # "Night's Dew" – 7:00 :Music and lyrics by Jarno Salomaa in 1997 and 1999. Credits Shape of Despair * Jarno Salomaa - lead guitars & synth * Tomi Ullgren - bass & rhythm guitars * Natalie Koskinen - female vocals * Samu Ruotsalainen - drums * Pasi Koskinen Pasi Koskinen (born January 1972) is a Finnish metal vocalist and musician, currently the vocalist and guitarist of the band Datura Nemesis (2013–), but he is perhaps best known as the vocalist of the band Amorphis (1995–2004). Koskinen wa ... - growled & clean vocals Session musician * Toni Raehalme - violin Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shades Of
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Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funeral Doom Metal
Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' (Berg Publishers, 2007), , p. 31. Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar from England, American bands Pentagram, Saint Vitus, the Obsessed, Trouble, and Cirith Ungol, and Swedish band Candlemass defined doom metal as a distinct genre. Characteristics Instrumentation The electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum kit are the most common instruments used to play doom metal (although keyboards are sometimes used), but its structures are rooted in the same scales as in blues. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
