Finnish dark death doom metal duo The Bleak Picture to release debut album »Meaningless« on March 22nd via Ardua Music; new single »Stained« streaming now!

Finnish dark doom death metal duo The Bleak Picture has announced their debut album, »Meaningless«, which will be released on March 22nd, 2024 via Ardua Music.

Watch a lyric video for the album’s new single »Stained«!

Tracklist:
01. Prisoner Of Your Own Sins
02. Meaningless / Nonsense
03. Misguided (Fortuna’s Hand)
04. Stained
05. Truth Divided
06. Lights Of July
07. Broken Balance

Courtesy of Ardua Music:

The Bleak Picture was founded in 2021 as a side project of Jussi Hänninen (Autumnfall/Fall Of The Leafe) and Tero Ruohonen (also vocalist at Autumnfall). Their first promo was written, recorded and digitally released the same year with a follow up CD/Vinyl version in 2022, with the addition of real drums.

They didn’t stop there but begun work on their debut album »Meaningless« and finally, after what feels like an eternity, the album will be released in March 22nd 2024 by Ardua Music on CD and on all major digital platforms.

Bleak and desolate, without forgetting beautiful melodies, The Bleak Picture dives deep into murky waters that can also be called melodic death doom metal.

The band’s doomy riffage borders on death metal heaviness, but the music manages to escape from the shallows of repetitiveness continuing in the atmospheric groove traced by the band’s acclaimed first EP, with greater emphasis on dark melodies that wrap the songs in a cosmic shroud of stars. The vocal lines frequently alternate registers, offering haunted wailing cleans, catchier verses and dread-filled death calls. The sound is instantly familiar with nods to the ‘90s, but never sounds retro or like mere homage.

For fans of old Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Dolorian, Swallow The Sun, Counting Hours or Killing Joke.

Pre-order:
arduamusic.com
arduamusic.bandcamp.com
thebleakpicture.bandcamp.com

Written, composed and recorded between the years 2021-2022 at BST Audio by J.Hänninen.
Vocals recorded in 2023 at TS-Audio by T.Salovuori.
Drums played and recorded at Nawetta Studios by O.Pirkkanen.
Mixed and mastered by O.Pirkkanen at Nawetta Studios in 2023.
Guest vocals on tracks #2 and #7 by T.Tuominen and on #6 by O.Pirkkanen.

The Bleak Picture are:
Jussi Hänninen – Music, Instruments
Tero Ruohonen – Lyrics, Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well