Finnish melodic doom/death metal band Marianas Rest announces spring tour dates with Aeonian Sorrow & Wooden Veins!

Photo by Lassi Karhulahti

Finnish doom-laden death metal force Marianas Rest, who recently released their latest album »The Bereaved« via Noble Demon, are now hitting the road for their Spring Of Doom 2026 Tour with Aeonian Sorrow and Wooden Veins this Thursday.

Spring Of Doom Europe 2026:
16.04. CH, Aarburg, Musigburg
17.04. BE, Diest, Club Hell
18.04. BE, Kortrijk, DVG Club
19.04. NL, Breda, Sound Dog
20.04. DE, Leipzig, Hellraiser Leipzig
21.04. CZ, Prague, Klub 007 Strahov
22.04. PL, Krakow, Garage Pub
23.04. CZ, Brno, Melodka
24.04. DE, Erfurt, Club From Hell Erfurt
25.04. DE, Würzburg, B-Hof

From the dark shores of the Baltic Sea, Marianas Rest channel the deep melancholy of their homeland. Hailing from the southeastern Finnish town of Kotka, the band was formed in 2013 and has since become a powerful force in the world of melancholic death metal.

Their music is heavy and unhurried, blending elements of doom, death, and post-metal into a sound that is both crushing and beautiful. Marianas Rest don’t just write songs – they create moods: haunting, immersive, and emotionally devastating. A journey into darkness that, strangely, feels both familiar and comforting.

Over the course of four albums – »Horror Vacui« (2016), »Ruins« (2019), »Fata Morgana« (2021), and »Auer« (2023) – the band has explored themes of isolation, despair, and conflict with uncanny timing. Fata Morgana was the closing chapter of a trilogy written before the pandemic but released at its peak. Auer was completed just before military unrest erupted in Europe – a coincidence too eerie to script.

The band’s fifth full-length, »The Bereaved«, is a deeply personal tale of death and the many forms in which the end may appear. We meet these Finnish axemen in the midst of memorial, tortured by those do’s or don’ts of individuals left behind, even though some indeed pity the living and envy the dead. At such times, who is more blessed, the deceased or the bereaved?

Again, just like on their previous albums, the melodies are the key for an unique soundtrack for the ongoing struggle against the black clouds that seem to gather around us all every now and then.

When it comes to Marianas Rest’s music, sometimes slow, deep and hard, on some occasions a bit faster and aggressive attacks, it sure does include that x-factor of Finnish DNA, that embraces melancholy and beauty on such level that makes one’s hair stand every single time.

»The Bereaved« is out now via Noble Demon and available for purchase at THIS LOCATION.

Marianas Rest are:
Jaakko Mäntymaa – Vocals
Nico Mänttäri – Guitar
Harri Sunila – Guitar
Niko Lindman – Bass
Aapo Koivisto – Keyboards
Nico Heininen – Drums

Courtesy of All Noir PR

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