Finnish melodic death metallers
CROWEN
released single/video
‘Dark Forever’
music and lyrics by Esa Uusimaa
mastered by Ville Hautaluoma
Finnish melodic death metal band Crowen is set to release their new EP ‘Where The Darkness Falls’ later this autumn via Inverse Records.
The First single ‘Dark Forever’ has been released.
‘Dark Forever’ tells the story of an afterlife where darkness, beauty and a sense of anguish are present.
The song also addresses the question of whether it is possible to come out of the darkness.
”The darkness served as my inspiration for this song. The afterlife is an intriguing topic, and I drew my ideas from it into the lyrics. Eventually, the lyrics of this song became the theme of the entire EP,”
says Crowen’s frontman Esa Uusimaa.
Dark Forever is punchy, fast-paced and melodic death metal with folk influences.
After the intro, the song transitions quickly from one part to the next, which leaves no time to catch a breath except for the last calm part at the end.
The melody guitars by Mikko Merilinna, known from the band Khroma, add a melancholy tone to the song, possibly even creating a slightly sinister atmosphere near the end.
Tuomas Saukkonen, known from the bands Wolfheart and Before the Dawn, plays the bass in the song and the entire EP.
The concept of two worlds continues in the music video for the song, directed by Lana Gonch.
Lead actress Mira Cibulka and Jussi Aspivaara’s leather masks contribute to the mysterious atmosphere of the video.
Crowen is a melodic death metal band founded in Espoo, Finland in 2019, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Esa Uusimaa.
In addition to guitars, Uusimaa played keyboards on the EP and built the samples for the album.
He also recorded and mixed the album.
Finnish melodic death metal band
CROWEN
released their debut EP
‘Prophecy’
track-list:
Her Words
Seer’s Prophecy
Submission
Black
Exosus
line-up:
Esa Uusimaa – vocals, guitars
Aki Örni – bass
Teemu Hauta – drums
Mira Cibulka – feature vocals
Finnish folk influenced melodic death metal band Crowen released their debut EP Prophecy on December 10th 2021 via Inverse Records.
To celebrate the release the band decided to make a music video for the song Black.
It features Shade of Sorrow and Mira Cibulka.
Esa Uusimaa comments:
“The making of the song Black took place just before the previous Exosus single. As far as I remember, I first made Exosus and then Black. This is the only full song I’ve composed on an acoustic guitar from start to finish. The original harmony chords didn’t sit well with the distorted guitar tones, so I used basic chords, and the song worked better. Mira Cibulka composed the piano parts for the song, which gave it a certain kind of longing feeling, and this way, we finished with playing the instruments. The song definitely needed clean vocals for the chorus, so the only good option was Mika Kankainen (Shade of Sorrow). I’ve recorded, mixed and mastered three singles in Mika’s project myself, so it was easy to ask him to join the songs. When I heard the demos (sung on a cell phone with head deep in the bathtub), I thought the song was then finished. This is the slowest song on the EP, and it balances those blast beats. I’m very pleased with the outcome!”
A single named ‘Exosus’ is released also from the EP.
Crowen is founded on 2019 by Esa Uusimaa (Rain of Acid, Ex-Wolfheart (live)).
The band released their fist single ‘In Arms’ on September 2020 and is set to release their debut EP Prophecy later in 2021.