Finnish melodic doom/death metal band Counting Hours to release new album »The Wishing Tomb« in February 2024; first single streaming now!
Helsinki, Finland based melodic doom/death metal band Counting Hours has released a visualizer video for the first single »Timeless Ones« taken from their sophomore album, »The Wishing Tomb«, due out on February 23rd, 2024 via Ardua Music.
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:
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!
Band would comment on this first single: “Storywise there are glimpses of hope in this one. But only glimpses. It tells of a sort of transition from “normal” existence to a place or phase with no time and a desire to be free in this kind of eternal limbo. Lyrically as an album opener »Timeless Ones« sets a guideline for the whole album.”
Photo by Timo Honkanen
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 (The Chant) – Vocals
Jarno Salomaa Petrushevski (Shape Of Despair, ex-Rapture) – Guitar
Tomi Ullgrén (Shape Of Despair, ex-Rapture) – Guitar
Markus Forsström (The Chant) – Bass
Sameli Köykkä (Cynabare Urne, ex-Colosseum) – 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