Sweden’s melodic death/doom metallers OCTOBER TIDE, who recently released their new studio album “In Splendor Below”, will hit the road as direct support to SWALLOW THE SUN this autumn. The band’s European tour will commence on October 31st and run through November 17th. In July, prior to the tour, OCTOBER TIDE will perform at Exit Festival in Serbia, Metaldays Festival in Slovenia and Peace & Love Festival in Sweden, among other festivals.
OCTOBER TIDE – Ögonblick Av Nåd (Official Music Video)
October Tide live dates:
05.07.2019: Explosive Stage @ Exit Festival, SRB
06.07.2019: Borlänge @ Peace & Love Festival, SWE
19.07.2019: Gävle @ Gefle Metal Festival, SWE
21.07.2019: Tolmin @ Metaldays Festival, SI
13.10.2019: Kiev @ Doom Over Kiev Festival, UKR
SWALLOW THE SUN announce European headline tour for fall 2019
Finnish melancholy death-doom metal act SWALLOW THE SUN continue touring Europe later this year to support their latest release “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”, which came out via Century Media Records in January 2019.
Support is coming from Swedish death doom metal act October Tide and fellow Finns Oceanwake.
SWALLOW THE SUN live
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light Tour 2019 – Pt. II”
w/ October Tide, Oceanwake
31.10.19 (DK) Copenhagen, Stengade
01.11.19 (D) Flensburg, Roxy
02.11.19 (D) Osnabrück, Bastard Club
03.11.19 (NL) Rotterdam, Dutch Doom Days
04.11.19 (FR) Paris, Backstage
05.11.19 (CH) Pratteln, Mini Z7
06.11.19 (IT) Retorbido, Dagda Club
07.11.19 (IT) Rome, Traffic Club
08.11.19 (SLO) Ljubljana, Orto Bar
09.11.19 (PL) Krakow, Zaścianek
10.11.19 (SVK) Bratislava, Randal Club
11.11.19 (HU) Budapest, Dürer Kert
12.11.19 (CZ) Plzen, Pod Lampou
13.11.19 (D) Munich, Backstage
14.11.19 (D) Berlin, Cassiopeia
15.11.19 (D) Weimar, Uhrenwerk
16.11.19 (D) Würzburg, Hammer Of Doom*
17.11.19 (D) Hannover, Bei Chez Heinz**
*only Swallow The Sun
**without Oceanwake
You can watch SWALLOW THE SUN performing the song “Firelights” here: https://youtu.be/Wul2yeGo3Wk
You can order the album here: https://SwallowTheSun.lnk.to/WhenAShadowIsForcedIntoTheLight
SWALLOW THE SUN line-up:
Mikko Kotamäki – Vocals
Matti Honkonen – Bass
Juuso Raatikainen – Drums
Jaani Peuhu – Keys & Vocals
Juho Räihä – Guitar
Juha Raivio – Guitar & Keys
SWALLOW THE SUN online:
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SWALLOW THE SUN announce European Headline Tour
Earlier this year Finnish melancholy death-doom metal act SWALLOW THE SUN released their critically acclaimed new album “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”. Now the band is happy to announce an extended European Headline tour, together with label mates Oceans Of Slumber and Aeonian Sorrow.
You can watch SWALLOW THE SUN performing the song “Firelights” here: https://youtu.be/Wul2yeGo3Wk
You can order the album here: https://SwallowTheSun.lnk.to/WhenAShadowIsForcedIntoTheLight
SWALLOW THE SUN live
w/ Oceans Of Slumber, Aeonian Sorrow
25.04.19 Thu DE – Bochum, Rockpalast
26.04.19 Fri – tba
27.04.19 Sat IT – Milano, Club Legend
28.04.19 Sun FR – Lyon, Rock’n’Eat
29.04.19 Mon ES – Barcelona, Boveda
30.04.19 Tue ES – Madrid, Caracol
01.05.19 Wed PT – Porto, Hard Club
02.05.19 Thu PT – Lisbon, RCA
03.05.19 Fri ES – Bilbao, Sala Groove
04.05.19 Sat FR – Nantes, Le Ferailleur
06.05.19 Mon UK – London, Underworld
07.05.19 Tue BE – Sint Niklaas, De Casino
08.05.19 Wed DE – Trier, Mergener Hof
09.05.19 Thu CH – Luzern, Schüür
10.05.19 Fri AT – Wien, Viper Room
11.05.19 Sat CZ – Prag, Nova Chemelnice
12.05.19 Sun DE – Hamburg, HeadCrash
Before being on tour in Europe they will be touring North America as direct support slot on the Children Of Bodom’s upcoming tour.
North American Tour:
Direct support to Children of Bodom
Mar. 13 – Quebec City, Quebec @ Imperial*
Mar. 14 – Montreal, Quebec @ Corona Theater*
Mar. 15 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Bronson Centre *
Mar. 16 – Toronto, Ontario @ The Phoenix Concert Theater*
Mar. 18 – Detroit, Mich. @ St. Andrews**
Mar. 19 – Chicago, Ill. @ House of Blues**
Mar. 20 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Skyway Theater**
Mar. 22 – Denver, Colo. @ The Summit**
Mar. 23 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Metro Music Hall**
Mar. 25 – Calgary, Alberta @ The Palace Theatre**
Mar. 26 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Union**
Mar. 27 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ The Vogue Theater**
Mar. 29 – Seattle, Wash. @ El Corazon**
Mar. 30 – Portland, Ore. @ Hawthorne Theater***
Apr. 01 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Regency Ballroom***
Apr. 02 – Santa Ana, Calif. @ The Observatory***
Apr. 03 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Club Red***
Apr. 05 – San Antonio, Texas @ Alamo Music Hall***
Apr. 06 – Houston, Texas @ Warehouse Live***
Apr. 07 – Dallas, Texas @ Canton Hall***
Apr. 09 – Tampa, Fla. @ The Ritz*
Apr. 11 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Masquerade*
Apr. 12 – Charlotte, N.C. @ The Underground*
Apr. 13 – Baltimore, Md. @ Baltimore Soundstage*
Apr. 14 – Pittsburgh, Pa. @ Mr Smalls Theatre*
Apr. 16 – Syracuse, N.Y. @ Westcott Theater*
Apr. 17 – Boston, Mass. @ The Royale*
Apr. 18 – Reading, Pa. @ Reverb*
Apr. 19 – New York, N.Y. @ Irving Plaza*
* Summoner’s Circle opening (March 13-16 and April 9-19)
** Hollow Cry opening (March 18-29)
*** Fragmentum opening (March 30 – April 7)
SWALLOW THE SUN line-up:
Mikko Kotamäki – Vocals
Matti Honkonen – Bass
Juuso Raatikainen – Drums
Jaani Peuhu – Keys & Vocals
Juho Räihä – Guitar
Juha Raivio – Guitar & Keys
SWALLOW THE SUN online:
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“Hedonihil logo by Jenni Kiiski. Skeleton illustration by Jussi Pohjanen.”
Hedonihil is a death metal anti-poetry product founded by Juuso Raatikainen (Swallow the Sun) and accompanied by Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow the Sun, Kuolemanlaakso) & Juho Räihä (Swallow the Sun, Gloria Morti, Hallatar). Hedonihil’s purpose is to be a direct sonic insult towards existence, no remorse. Take it or leave it, negative vibes only.”
The band released a first single ‘The Hedonist Anthem’ which is taken from the upcoming album ‘I’ due to be released April 12th 2019 by Inverse Records.Listen to The Hedonist Anthem:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/nDU87apZhR8
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2tykSDP
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/87409942
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/104121175
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2V97BNJ
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2GDpXDo
PRE-ORDER CD: https://bit.ly/2tvn5zP
Track List
01. Otherworldly Embrace
02. Run You Scum
03. The Hedonist Anthem
04. Temple of Venus
05. Anti-Human Agenda
06. The Whole Human Species Systematically Murdered
07. Better Tomorrow
08. Pessimism is the New Realism
09. You Hate Me and I Hate You (GG Allin cover)
Album cover by: Jasu Rossi & Juuso Raatikainen 
Line-Up:
Juuso Raatikainen (Swallow the Sun)
Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow the Sun, Kuolemanlaakso)
Juho Räihä (Swallow the Sun, Gloria Morti, Hallatar)
Links:
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SWALLOW THE SUN releases new track and video “Firelights”; announces US tour with Children Of Bodom
“Firelights” is the second single SWALLOW THE SUN are releasing off of their new opus “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”, which will be available on January 25th, 2019.
“From the ultimate depths of Lumina Aurea we rose upon the water. Now it is time to light the first torches in the night. Death might be stronger than life, but Love is always stronger than death. This is Firelights!” – SWALLOW THE SUN.
The video was again directed and produced by Aapo Lahtela and Vesa Ranta. You can watch SWALLOW THE SUN performing “Firelights” here.
You can listen to the previously released single “Upon The Water” here.
The track “Lumina Aurea” was released as a standalone single already in December 2018. You can watch the stunning video here and order the LP here.
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” already got lots of exposure from various media:
RECENT SOUNDCHECKS
LEGACY – #1
ROCK HARD (Ger) – #2
METAL HAMMER (Ger) – #3
AARDSCHOK – #3
“A spellbinding journey into the darkest ventricles of the heart”
METAL HAMMER (UK)
“If death could ever be defeated then probably this way.”
METAL HAMMER (GER)
“(…) musically a definite must-buy.” – ROCK HARD (GER)
“It’s challenging to compare this album to anything Swallow the Sun has done before. Within this album we can talk about shuddering new chapter of metal music.”
INFERNO (FI)
“Touching.” – SONIC SEDUCER (GER)
“(…) the band created an out-standing piece of art, which captures the beauty of death and the darkness of life at the same time.” – LEGACY (GER)
“Pure emotions…” – ROCK TRIBUNE (B)
“Heaven at its darkest, emotional melancholic and beautiful atmospheres. Unique band, a strong masterpiece” – METALLIAN (FR)
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” track-listing:
1. When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
2. The Crimson Crown
3. Firelights
4. Upon The Water
5. Stone Wings
6. Clouds On Your Side
7. Here On The Black Earth
8. Never Left
Pre-order the album here: https://SwallowTheSun.lnk.to/WhenAShadowIsForcedIntoTheLight
Furthermore SWALLOW THE SUN recently announced their direct support slot on the Children Of Bodom’s upcoming North American tour. Additional support will come from Wolfheart. Summer’s Circle, Hollow Cry, and Fragmentum as openers for select dates. The tour starts March 13th in Quebec City and wraps on April 19th in New York City.
North American Tour:
Direct support to Children of Bodom
Mar. 13 – Quebec City, Quebec @ Imperial*
Mar. 14 – Montreal, Quebec @ Corona Theater*
Mar. 15 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Bronson Centre *
Mar. 16 – Toronto, Ontario @ The Phoenix Concert Theater*
Mar. 18 – Detroit, Mich. @ St. Andrews**
Mar. 19 – Chicago, Ill. @ House of Blues**
Mar. 20 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Skyway Theater**
Mar. 22 – Denver, Colo. @ The Summit**
Mar. 23 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Metro Music Hall**
Mar. 25 – Calgary, Alberta @ The Palace Theatre**
Mar. 26 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Union**
Mar. 27 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ The Vogue Theater**
Mar. 29 – Seattle, Wash. @ El Corazon**
Mar. 30 – Portland, Ore. @ Hawthorne Theater***
Apr. 01 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Regency Ballroom***
Apr. 02 – Santa Ana, Calif. @ The Observatory***
Apr. 03 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Club Red***
Apr. 05 – San Antonio, Texas @ Alamo Music Hall***
Apr. 06 – Houston, Texas @ Warehouse Live***
Apr. 07 – Dallas, Texas @ Canton Hall***
Apr. 09 – Tampa, Fla. @ The Ritz*
Apr. 11 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Masquerade*
Apr. 12 – Charlotte, N.C. @ The Underground*
Apr. 13 – Baltimore, Md. @ Baltimore Soundstage*
Apr. 14 – Pittsburgh, Pa. @ Mr Smalls Theatre*
Apr. 16 – Syracuse, N.Y. @ Westcott Theater*
Apr. 17 – Boston, Mass. @ The Royale*
Apr. 18 – Reading, Pa. @ Reverb*
Apr. 19 – New York, N.Y. @ Irving Plaza*
* Summoner’s Circle opening (March 13-16 and April 9-19)
** Hollow Cry opening (March 18-29)
*** Fragmentum opening (March 30 – April 7)
SWALLOW THE SUN live
07.02.2019 Helsinki (Finland) – Nosturi*
08.02.2019 Turku (Finland) – Apollo*
09.02.2019 Jyväskylä (Finland) – Lutakko*
14.02.2019 Tampere (Finland) – Klubi*
15.02.2019 Oulu (Finland) – Teatria*
16.02.2019 Kuopio (Finland) – Henry´s Pub*
*) with THE MAN-EATING TREE
More dates to be announced soon!
SWALLOW THE SUN online
https://www.facebook.com/swallowthesun
https://twitter.com/swallowthesunfi
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SWALLOW THE SUN release first single “Upon The Water” of new album “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”
With “Upon The Water” Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN release a first glimpse on the new album “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”, which will be released already on January 25th, 2019.
“Every word and note I wrote, I wrote for Aleah,” says Juha Raivio. “And about my own battle since she passed. The album title, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light”, comes from Aleah’s own words, ‘When a shadow is forced into the light.’ That was exactly what I needed to do. To push myself out from the shadows. I’ve been pretty much a hermit in the woods for two and a half years. Gathering my life to write this album. That’s also why the subject is very personal and therefore hard for me to talk about. I’d rather leave it all to the music and words on “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” to tell the story. It’s all there.”
Listen to “Upon The Water” here and pre-order the album here.
Fueled by personal loss (the album title has its origins in Trees of Eternity’s “Broken Mirror”) and powered by the will to continue, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” showcases the group’s ability to maintain its signature sound while expanding upon horizons and diving deeper into the crevasse of doom-death metal. While the previous released single “Lumina Aurea” marks the band’s darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” follows a more positive approach and continues in the vein of previous albums – first-rate death-doom in the typical style of SWALLOW THE SUN.
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” track-listing:
1. When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
2. The Crimson Crown
3. Firelights
4. Upon The Water
5. Stone Wings
6. Clouds On Your Side
7. Here On The Black Earth
8. Never Left
SWALLOW THE SUN live
07.02.2019 Helsinki (Finland) – Nosturi*
08.02.2019 Turku (Finland) – Apollo*
09.02.2019 Jyväskylä (Finland) – Lutakko*
14.02.2019 Tampere (Finland) – Klubi*
15.02.2019 Oulu (Finland) – Teatria*
16.02.2019 Kuopio (Finland) – Henry´s Pub*
*) with THE MAN-EATING TREE
More dates to be announced soon!
SWALLOW THE SUN line-up
Mikko Kotamäki – Vocals
Matti Honkonen – Bass
Juuso Raatikainen – Drums
Jaani Peuhu – Keys & Vocals
Juho Räihä – Guitar
Juha Raivio – Guitar & Keys
SWALLOW THE SUN online
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SWALLOW THE SUN release video and single for „Lumina Aurea“
Today Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN are releasing a standalone 14-minutes epic single track called “Lumina Aurea”.
According to Juha Raivio “Lumina Aurea” (featuring Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and The Foreshadowing’s Marco I. Benevento) marks the band’s darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released.
“‘Lumina Aurea’ is a song I would never want to write in my life,” Raivio says. “It is an open, bleeding black wound from the last two and half years of my life. But I had to write it out. I could not back down from it. The way I wrote and recorded ‘Lumina Aurea’ was so rough emotionally and physically that I think I will never talk about it public. I know this road will go on forever as a part of me, but I have also made a peace with it—that I will never have peace with it. And that the life and the journey here must still go on for a while for those of us remaining. I knew that if I would go any deeper on that road with the album as I did with ‘Lumina Aurea,’ the path would not end well. So, I quickly realized that instead I will write an album that will manifest loud and clear that after all, ‘Love is always stronger than death.’ I wanted to find that angle for ‘When A Shadow Is Forced into the Light’. This album is like a weapon for myself. A burning light, a burning torch. Victorious and proud.”
Aapo Lahtela & Vesa Ranta at Kaira Films accomplished to visualize the atmosphere of “Lumina Aurea” in a stunning video clip.
“The idea for this short-film like music video came from Juha Raivio and we tweaked the idea a bit to make the story fit into the beautiful landscapes we were going to film it in. The video has been filmed in several locations around Northern Finland and Lappland. We would like to leave the meaning of the story a bit open and to let everyone watching it to make their own conclusions and let their imagination flow. As obvious, things such as grief, torment and even love are present through the video. This is pretty much all we would like to open about it. Some kind of mysticism there definitely is. It was a great pleasure for us to get work with this project, since the song has such a meaning for Juha,” stats Ranta.
You can watch the video for “Lumina Aurea” here.
“Lumina Aurea” is available as 12” EP vinyl version and digitally here.
“Lumina Aurea” track-listing
1. Lumina Aurea
2. Lumina Aurea (instrumental version)
The new album “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” is going to be released on January 25th, 2019.
SWALLOW THE SUN live
07.02.2019 Helsinki (Finland) – Nosturi*
08.02.2019 Turku (Finland) – Apollo*
09.02.2019 Jyväskylä (Finland) – Lutakko*
14.02.2019 Tampere (Finland) – Klubi*
15.02.2019 Oulu (Finland) – Teatria*
16.02.2019 Kuopio (Finland) – Henry´s Pub*
*) with THE MAN-EATING TREE
More dates to be announced soon!
SWALLOW THE SUN line-up
Mikko Kotamäki – Vocals
Matti Honkonen – Bass
Juuso Raatikainen – Drums
Jaani Peuhu – Keys & Vocals
Juho Räihä – Guitar
Juha Raivio – Guitar & Keys
SWALLOW THE SUN online
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SWALLOW THE SUN – announce new album and epic single release
Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN will release their new album “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” on January 25th, 2019 through Century Media Records.
Only one month earlier, on December 21st, they will release a standalone 14-minutes epic single track called “Lumina Aurea”, both digitally and as 12” EP vinyl version.
Fueled by personal loss (the album title has its origins in Trees of Eternity’s “Broken Mirror”) and powered by the will to continue, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” showcases the group’s ability to maintain its signature sound while expanding upon horizons and diving deeper into the crevasse of doom-death metal. Even though the single and the album are conceptually connected, they are musically completely different. While “Lumina Aurea” – featuring Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and The Foreshadowing’s Marco I. Benevento – marks the band’s darkest and most sinister piece of music the band has ever released, “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” follows a more positive approach and continues in the vein of previous albums – first-rate death-doom in the typical style of SWALLOW THE SUN.
“When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” track-listing:
1. When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
2. The Crimson Crown
3. Firelights
4. Upon The Water
5. Stone Wings
6. Clouds On Your Side
7. Here On The Black Earth
8. Never Left
“Lumina Aurea” track-listing:
1. Lumina Aurea
2. Lumina Aurea (instrumental version)
SWALLOW THE SUN have announced first shows for 2019! See below for all dates
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SWALLOW THE SUN live:
07.02.2019 Helsinki (Finland) – Nosturi*
08.02.2019 Turku (Finland) – Apollo*
09.02.2019 Jyväskylä (Finland) – Lutakko*
14.02.2019 Tampere (Finland) – Klubi*
15.02.2019 Oulu (Finland) – Teatria*
16.02.2019 Kuopio (Finland) – Henry´s Pub*
*) with THE MAN-EATING TREE
More dates to be announced soon!