MOURNIATY

track-list:
Ajan saattama
Musta maa
All Your Lies
Aika Roudan
Shrines
Kyynelten virta
Seventh Seal
A Son of the Plague
Sodomia
Pyhä on valani

mixed by Karulainen & Joona Rinne @ Deep Noise Studios
mastered by Saku Moilanen @ Deep Noise Studios

Mourniaty are:
Metällinen – drums
Tenho – bass
Liekkiö – guitar
Karulainen – vocals, guitar

Finnish black metal act Mourniaty will release their debut album, ‘Musta maa‘ (Black Earth) via Inverse records on digital platforms and in cd-format on November the 7th, 2025.
The perfect soundtrack for the darkest season of the year.
The album contains Anti-Christian stories sung both in English and Finnish.
Earlier on in 2025 the Finns had already released thre singles as teasers for their debut album.
On the single ‘Shrines‘ the band refuses to bow down before anyone building places of worship, but will rather see them fall with their shrines.
“The song is about the downfall of different religions without singling out any specific one, song writer Karulainen states. So you better watch the skies at nighttime, since the stars will shine like the eyes of the serpentine!”
On the song ‘All Your Lies‘ Mourniaty switches from Finnish to English.
“The song takes us to a place where dreams are no longer dreamt and angels have torn and tattered wings. We are talking about the apocalypse here. On this track all the deeply religious people end up six feet under with their lies at the end of our days. The road to hell is paved with lies”,
song-writer Karulainen describes the core message of the track.
With ‘Kyynelten virta‘ the Finnish black metal group Mourniaty takes the listener on a journey to an era, when Christianity’s seeds would not take root in a frosted ground.
“Instead of faith you would only find cold steel and death…it’s hard to preach with yer head on a pike”
“When you get fed up with Christianity and Paganism starts to arouse your interest, interesting things are often created.”
Sometimes this process needs an accelerant, which is exactly what happened when Karulainen and Metällinen found themselves to be merged in the same family tree.
Now, what else would fresh, Finnish relatives do but make aggressive noises together?
This gave an outlet for the music Karulainen had already been writing.
Finnish Mourniaty began its life as a smoldering project already in 2015.
It burst into raging fire five years later, when situations in life permitted concentrating on music full-time.
When bass player Tenho joined the group in 2022, Mourniaty finally became a real band instead of two men with backing tracks.
Karulainen describes Mourniaty’s music as black metal, which combines mid-tempo grooves and even symphonic arrangements combined with lyrics sung in both Finnish and English, which revolve around themes of Paganism and Anti-Christianity.