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ALCHEMIA to Bring Dark and Horror Metal to Summer Breeze Open Air Brazil 2024

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Brazilian horror metal band Alchemia has been confirmed to play at the Summer Breeze Open Air Brasil festival in 2024. The festival will take place April 26-28 at Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil.

Alchemia was formed in São Paulo in 2018 by vocalist Victor Piiroja. The band’s debut album, “Inception,” was released in 2021 by Italian label WormholeDeath Records and helped Alchemia become one of the most promising horror metal bands in the world. “Inception” was also released in Japan in 2022 via WormholeDeath Records Japan.

The band’s music is dark and cinematic, with lyrics that explore themes such as reflection, consciousness, mental imprisonment, phobias, and psychological disorders. “We have a lot of influences in ‘Inception,’ from heavy metal, black metal, death metal, industrial, gothic, film soundtracks, and classical orchestration,” Piiroja said. “At the same time, it has its own identity.”

The mixing and mastering of “Inception” were handled by renowned Danish audio engineer Tue Madsen, who has worked with Rob Halford, Babymetal, and Moonspell. The orchestrations were developed by London-based maestro Jon Phipps, who has orchestrated albums by bands such as Moonspell, Amorphis, and Devilment. The cover art was created by Brazilian artist Carlos Fides, who has created artwork for bands such as Kamelot, Evergrey, and Edu Falaschi.

In 2023, Alchemia took a break from working on their new album to play at the Los Muertos and Horror Expo Brazil festivals. The band will now be bringing their dark and powerful live show to the Summer Breeze Open Air Brasil festival. The setlist will feature songs from both “Inception” and the band’s upcoming album, “Become Human,” which is scheduled for release in 2024.

“We are thrilled to be playing at Summer Breeze Open Air Brazil,” Piiroja said. “It is one of the biggest and most important metal festivals in the world, and we are honored to be a part of it. We are excited to share our music with fans from all over Brazil and the world.”

Alchemia is a Brazilian horror metal band formed in São Paulo in 2018. The band’s debut album, “Inception,” was released in 2021 by Italian label WormholeDeath Records and helped Alchemia become one of the most promising horror metal bands in the world. The band’s music is dark and cinematic, with lyrics that explore themes such as reflection, consciousness, mental imprisonment, phobias, and psychological disorders.
Sales – “Inception” (CD):Europe – https://tinyurl.com/26ut664vJapan – https://tinyurl.com/3cndz56cBrazil (Shinigami Records): https://tinyurl.com/4jraa9js
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Twitter: alchemiabandoff
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(new single) Finnish Dark The Suns released new single and music video featuring a prominent guest!

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Picture: Dark The Suns feat Paavo Laapotti

Finnish melodic metal band Dark The Suns released a new single and music video Raven. The track is featuring Paavo Laapotti (Before The Dawn & Defiled Serenity) on vocals. The track is taken from the upcoming fifth studio album ‘Raven and the Nightsky’ which is released later this year via Inverse Records. 

Comments from the band: 

Mikko: Raven is the 4th single from our upcoming Raven and the Nightsky -album. In Raven single we have a special guest vocalist Paavo Laapotti (Before The Dawn and Defiled Serenity). Paavo has an amazing voice and his voice brought really beautiful and melancholic athmosphere for the single! Jani also played acoustic guitar for the song, so we got more good new elements for the song. I’m really proud of the results!

Inka: We had talked with Paavo about making a song together, and when one night I played the piano and made the chorus to this song, I immediately thought that this would sound great with Paavo’s vocals. He is super talented and he has such a great voice. The result sounds exactly like what I thought at the time. I thought about the single cover for a long time and made many sketches of ravens and black wings to catch the right feeling; in the end it felt like all the pieces fell into place, melodies and words, Jani’s acoustic guitar, painting, video… this was a really great project with a great team, and I am so happy for the results.

Paavo: Making of this song was very easy with seamless teamwork and a great, clear concept. I really like the song and it has the great distinctive sound of Dark The Suns but with a twist. It was an honor to be a part of this release and I think we succeeded in bringing the nordic feel to the listeners around the world.

Jani: As usually, working with Mikko and Inka was at the same time professional and easy-going, it is always a pleasure to spend time with them. The new song ”Raven” is super catchy with beautiful melodies in it, and the vocals by Paavo are outstanding. I was honored to be involved in this one.

LISTEN Raven single: https://push.fm/fl/dts-paavo-laapotti-raven

BIOGRAPHY:

In 2005 Dark the Suns was founded by Mikko Ojala. In 2006 the band grew when three new members (bass player Inka, Juha on the keyboards and drummer Markus) joined the band, which signed with Firebox Records that same year.

During 2007-2010 Firebox Records released the band’s three full-length albums (In Darkness Comes Beauty, All Ends in Silence and Sleepwalking in a Nightmare). The band performed many live shows during these years.

There have been some changes in the line-up over the years, but Mikko and Inka have been continuously together, making music. The band was inactive for 2013-2020 but in 2020 Mikko and Inka decided to resume making music together. It was a really natural way to continue the band as a duo, because they have written almost all the band’s music and lyrics during all these years.

In 2020 and 2021 Inverse Records released four singles from the band’s 4th album Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä. The album includes ten songs of melancholic and melodic Finnish metal music. The band has always described their music as ”Beautiful piano melodies and dark vocals”.

Jani Moilanen joined the band in March 2023. Fifth studio album is set to be released later in 2023 via Inverse Records.

Line-up on Raven single:

Mikko Ojala: vocals, guitars, drums
Inka Ojala: bass, keyboards
Paavo Laapotti: guest vocals
Jani Moilanen: acoustic guitar

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/darkthesunsofficial

https://darkthesuns.bandcamp.com
https://spoti.fi/2Jmh5kW
https://www.instagram.com/darkthesunsofficial

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(review) Mustan Kuun Lapset – ‘Suruaika EP’

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Finnish cult band Mustan Kuun Lapset celebrates thirty years of existence and what better way to celebrate it than with new EP. This new opus contains three new songs and one rendition of old classic, one of the best known in their existence called ‘Morfiinisiivet ‘. This EP provides guest performances by for example, French professional cellist Axel Salmona, guitarist of the Norwegian metal band In the Woods... Kåre André Sletteberg, and Voice of Finland finalist and Before the Dawn vocalist Paavo Laapotti. Cello. piano and violin give richness and sweetness to dark music and darkness provided by this band. ‘Kirstunkantaja’ is a kind of instrumental intro, but ‘Muistoa kunnioittaen’ is a lesson in dark metal that only this band can do, mixture of perfect extreme black and death metal with melody and melancholy. Clean vocals interplay perfectly with growls and melodic heavy metal influenced hooks and passages, yet retaining enough darkness in the music. ‘On suruaika täytetty’ is for me the best song on this little opus, Paavo Laapotti delivering such great vocal performance as guest on this song, also violin and cello made goosebumps on my skin listening to this haunting melody and song as a whole. The new rendition of ‘Morfiinisiivet’ gave new vision and life to this anthem, thus finishing this celebratory EP. Great and best wishes!

8/10