I AM THE NIGHT ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM & SHARE NEW VIDEO
'While The Gods Are Sleeping’ released 6th May (Svart Records)
Behold! I Am The Night release new music video and
announce album release this coming May.
New band featuring Finnish metal scene legends opens an ancient chasm of
Black Metal, born of an epic tradition.
Rising from the deep valleys of Kymi in southernmost Finland, I Am
The Night is Black Metal rooted in the classic early 90’s tradition,
where walls of guitars and synthesizers raise the forces of darkness in a
battle against the heavens and burning angels light up the night sky.
The band’s debut full length album, with cover art by scene legend
Necrolord, bears the title “While The Gods Are Sleeping” and shall be
released on May 6th, 2022. The record was birthed during the heaviest blizzard
Finland had seen in years in the winter of 2021, with the band holed up at the
Soundspiral Audio studio during the height of the pandemic. “This album, in a
way, is both the thing that should not be and something we should have made
flesh many moons ago already”, comments Markus Vanhala, and continues: “It is a
passage back in time that dark forest of our minds through which we spent our
youth traversing.”
Together with the album announcement the band are set to release a second
single from the album, titled “Ode To The Nightsky”. The music video for the
song was created by Coldstore Productions, and it is online now at:
Brought forth by underground titans of Finnish Metal, Markus
Vanhala (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum), Janne Markkanen (ex-Omnium
Gatherum), Okko Solanterä (Horizon Ignited) and Waltteri
Väyrynen (Paradise Lost, Bodom After Midnight), the
band’s origins date back to the dimly lit subterranean rehearsal rooms of the
mid-nineties where the fires of Vanhala and Markkanen’s
Black Metal zeal were ignited.
“Black metal art has been a continuous and serious pursuit in my personal
life since my early teenage years”, explains guitarist Vanhala, and
he continues; “In The Nightside Eclipse, Storm Of The
Light’s Bane and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas opened the
gate to the dark side for me years ago, as can be heard from the music we make
with I Am The Night.”
In recent years I Am The Night rapidly began to gather
flesh on its old bones, and in 2020 the spark burst into a full blaze when
elder statesmen Vanhala and Markkanen hired
younger cohorts Väyrynen and Solanterä to
help bring their morbid visions into reality. Vanhala states
that: “Our debut record, the result of a yearning for ancient darkness,
turned out to be just the time capsule we wanted it to be, far removed from
modern metal. I’ve seldom found anything interesting in post nineties Black
Metal. We wanted to realise this in the underground way that felt fitting to
the music, and chose to work with Svart Records.”
“Our songs are stories about the worship of night and the triumph of the
powers of darkness. At night, sun to his slumber and shadows all over, the
forces of the night rise to the heavens, cast angels out and usher in a new era
of individual freedom”, vocalist Solaterä explains
“I Am The Night is a real band not a project. It is
unrestrained creation. A ray of darkness for us in the vacuum created by the
pandemic. The future remains unseen, and all the better for it.”
Seldom has an instant classic band and timeless sound reached our ears at
Svart Records, but we are certain that there will be hordes of new initiates,
prepared to declare I Am The Night their favourite new ray of
darkness. Open the gate to your eclipse now:
Line-up:
Vanhala - guitar, synth (Insomnium,
Omnium Gatherum)
Markkanen - bass (ex- Omnium
Gatherum)
Väyrynen - drums (Paradise Lost , Bodom
After Midnight)
Solanterä -
vocals (Horizon Ignited)