Finnish melancholic doom/death metal band Counting Hours stream their second album »The Wishing Tomb«, out now via Ardua Music!
Helsinki, Finland based melancholic doom/death metal band Counting Hours has just released their second album »The Wishing Tomb« 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.
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:
Finnish melodic doom death metal band Counting Hours’ second album »The Wishing Tomb« out now!
Order »The Wishing Tomb«:
• LP/CD: arduamusic.com
• CD/Merchandise/Digital: countinghours2.bandcamp.com
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«.
Photo by Timo Honkanen
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!
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