Feb 2022 metal black-metal folk-metal concept-album mnet
I've been listening to a lot of Falkenbach lately, so it seeped heavily into this.
Löyly is the heat you get when you throw water on the hot sauna stove.
Kekri is a traditional Finnish celebration for end of the harvest season. It is believed that the veil between the dead and the living is thin in this time of the year. During Kekri, sauna is heated and food and liquor are served for those who have passed on from this realm of existence.
Saunatonttu is an elf which watches over proper sauna conduct.
Chapter 4: Löyly vainajille (Löyly for the dead)
After regaining consciousness, Kajo returns to their village. It is time for Kekri celebrations. Kajo and their saunatonttu are warming the sauna in preparation for the dead who will soon arrive to visit the village. The oldest of the village is waiting for the guests at the gates with a liquor bottle in his hand. He has done this countless times, but every time he feels excitement and a strange beat in his heart.
Kun huntu ohut on
Ja raja läpäistään
Liikkuvat täällä he
Jotka ovat lähteneet
Pian raastaa talvi
Maaemon pintaa
Nostamme maljan
Jaamme antimet
Tänään kiuas lämpenee
Lyö lieskat läpi maailmoiden
Tänään juoma virtaa
Löyly vainajille
Kaaosajan kulkijat
Näitä maita vaeltavat
He, jotka eivät
Hautaa malta halata
Hahmo portilla seisoo
Odottaa vieraitaan
Pullo kädessään
Kumma väpätys rinnassaan
Tänään kiuas lämpenee
Lyö lieskat läpi maailmoiden
Tänään juoma virtaa
Löyly vainajille
Translation:
When the veil is thin
And the border is crossed
They wander
Those who have left
Soon the winter
Tears the Mother Earth's surface
We shall raise a cup
And share the fruit
Today the sauna stove will be heated
The flames strike through the worlds
Today drinks shall run
Löyly for the dead
The wanderers of the chaos time
These lands they walk
They who don't
Caress the grave
A figure stands at the gate
Waits for his guests
A bottle in his hand
A strange pound in his chest
Today the sauna stove will be heated
The flames strike through the worlds
Today drinks shall run
Löyly for the dead
@torniojaws Feb 2022
Feels like standing out in the freezing blizzard, waiting for the sauna to get warm :D
@howthenightcame Feb 2022
here we go, the darkness i was looking for...
i like the way you have that bright organ on top of the guitar - it adds a little relief in the higher frequencies but without distracting from the gnarly guitar tone.
are you recording everything on your tracks - like a one-person BM project? i'm not very knowledgeable, but i like xasthur.
oh, and wasn't there a VICE documentary about one-person BM projects?
@calfman8803 Feb 2022
This is excellent.
The breakdown hitting that more pleasant melody and then burying it for the last verse is quite nice.
Overall I would say the biggest strength of this is your sense of the arrangement and how to layer and place these pieces to both keep the tension but also allow spots where things really shine through.
Great work!
@tfish77 Feb 2022
And the interlude! So cool. Love the psycho kick drum in that last verse.
@tfish77 Feb 2022
Love that organ at the top over the heavy guitars... and your vocals are straight from the pits of hell (in a good way)!! Great drum tone, too, especially the cymbal after the first verse.
I dig how the lyrics are actually pretty nice, about this lovely tradition, but the vocals sound like you're coming to eat my soul. Great stuff!
@doggolito Feb 2022
Really like this one. It really has that eerie vibe with the synth. Amazing raw vocals with a in your face sound
Nice one !
@cheslain Feb 2022
Great old school bm. Hypnotic and aggressive like it should be. Tasty growls. That interlude with the clean guitar is magical.