Counting Hours share new single and music video »Away I Flow«; new album »The Wishing Tomb« out February 23rd via Ardua Music!
Helsinki, Finland based melancholic doom/death metal band Counting Hours share new single and music video »Away I Flow« taken from their second album, »The Wishing Tomb«, set to release on February 23rd, 2024 via Ardua Music. Featuring current and former members of Shape Of Despair, Rapture, The Chant, Cynabare Urne, Colosseum, Minutian and Aryokal.
Directed and shot by Ossi Lehtonen.
Tracklist:
01. Unsung, Forlorn
02. Timeless Ones
03. Away I Flow
04. All That Blooms (Needs To Die)
05. Starlit / Lifeless
06. The Wishing Tomb
07. No Closure
08. A Mercy Fall
09. This Well Of Failures
Courtesy of Ardua Music:
Shot in an underground cellar next to the band’s rehearsal room, this video returns to the origins from where the band got started. Aesthetically monotonous, the video brings forth a deeper dimension for the aural composition.
»Away I Flow« describes those moments in your life when you “are driven” to concentrate more on matters you are really into. Especially when these things which are driving are more negative ones. Be it whatever that is connecting you and the negative aspect as one, to form a flow of consciousness.
»Away I Flow« is also an outcome of these moments and the song itself came together quite quickly. After the initial idea the composition was developed with the whole band and when the producer Jussi Hämäläinen was brought in, the last pieces of the puzzle found their place.
Away I flow. No desire to live.
Photo by Timo Honkanen
Three years after their critically acclaimed debut »The Will« and almost a quarter of a century after their first endeavour together, Rapture’s doom death seminal landmark »Futile«, guitarists Jarno Salomaa and Tomi Ullgrén (both of them also members of funeral doom legends Shape Of Despair) are back with their haunting and otherworldly twin-guitar harmonies on the sophomore release of Counting Hours »The Wishing Tomb«.
On yet another surprising expansion of their signature sound, the Finns continue building a set of colossal and unforgettable melodies using unnerving and gazing grooves as the backbone of their compositions, only to be intertwined with the emotional vocals of singer Ilpo Paasela (of The Chant fame), culminating in what will be one of the gloomiest yet, oddly enough, most memorable releases of the year. Nine songs of bleakness and hopeless melodies that will be stuck in your minds for the rest of your hopeless life…the true masters of nordic melancholy are back!
Pre-order:
• CD/LP arduamusic.com
• CD/LP arduamusic.bandcamp.com
• Digital: countinghours2.bandcamp.com
Music by Jarno Salomaa Petrushevski.
Lyrics by Ilpo Paasela.
Arrangements & production by Counting Hours / Jussi Hämäläinen (Southcurve Studios).
Recorded at D-Studio, Southcurve Studios and Doomcave.
Engineered by Jarno Hänninen, Jussi Hämäläinen & Jarno Salomaa Petrushevski.
Mixed and mastered by Jarno Hänninen at D-Studio.
Cover art by Ossi Lehtonen / Midjourney.
Photos by Ossi Lehtonen.
Band logo by Mariusz Krystew.
Layout by K. Pyyhtinen.
Counting Hours is:
Ilpo Paasela – Vocals
Jarno Salomaa Petrushevski – Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Tomi Ullgren – Guitars
Pekka Loponen – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Markus Forsström – Bass
Sameli Köykkä – Drums
Keyboards by Jussi Hämäläinen.
Backing vocals by Pekka Loponen, Jussi Hämäläinen & Riikka Hatakka.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well