DAMNATION PLAN

The first New Horizon album release live shows in Finland have been announced as follows:
13.12.23 Kuudes Linja, Helsinki
Special guests: Pressure Points
03.01.24 Yo-Talo, Tampere
Special guests: Pressure Points, Denigrate

Finnish melancholic progressive metallers Damnation Plan releases the third music video ‘To The Sun’ from their just released new album ‘The New Horizon’.
The music video’s been directed by the band’s drummer/songwriter/lyricist/producer Jarkko Lunnas.
Jarkko comments on the song and the video:
“The last of the trilogy of music videos we shot in Iceland for this album. Thematically ‘To The Sun’ is about humanity’s longing and desire to achieve and reach something grandiose. We have a desire to find a place and a meaning for our existence. It might be even so we have to leave our planet one day in our need to re-discover that meaning again. The song is also a kind of a continuation to the storyline of our last album ‘Reality Illusion’s ending track ‘The Final Destination’ – taking you to the very moment when it’s time to abandon our planet in the endeavour to secure continuation for our species.”

track-list:
The New Horizon
Dreamdead
To The Sun
Under The Veil Of Sea
Emotional Trials

Mixed & mastered by Miiro Varjus/Wavescape Productions
Produced by Jarkko Lunnas
Co-produced by Kalle Niininen & Asim Searah
Keyboards and synths by Jussi Kulomaa on tracks 4 & 5
and Jari Pailamo on track 1
Additional synths by Kalle Niininen & Jarkko Lunnas

The Finnish progressive metal act Damnation Plan can be characterized as a modern chameleon of metal:
combining both harsh and clean vocals in their trademark genre crossing heavily rhythmic and emotional metal.
On the new album this time all the vocals are 99% clean.
Among personal reflections, the band’s lyrics deal critically with mainstream taboos and the ever growing ignorance of the masses.
The album ‘The New Horizon’ will be releazed on the 8th of september 2023 via Inverse Records.
After their previous album ‘Reality Illusion’ (2017) the band’s second vocalist Tommy Tuovinen (MyGrain) left the band, and the band’s other vocalist Asim Searah since took over all the vocal duties live, and also for the new album.
Therefore the new album will feature Damnation Plan with a new through-out clean vocals approach, attaching their style even more in the style of traditions respecting progressive metal, featuring mostly clean vocals.
As on the earlier releases the album cover art is designed by the band’s drummer/producer/songwriter/lyricist Jarkko Lunnas.
Jarkko comments on the cover art and the album’s thematic aspects:
“The album cover art depicts dark times as a darkened globe, a global shift, a division. A new horizon that sets the stage for our future. Is the shift going to bring us to extinction or simply be the change we need for a better renewed beginning? A lot of how that unfolds is written in our behavioral traits that we pass on, and maybe learn from our past, which also a lot of this album’s lyrics deal with.”

Composers: Jarkko Lunnas, Kalle Niininen, Asim Searah, Jari Pailamo
Lyrics: Jarkko Lunnas
Arrangement: Antti Lauri, Jaakko Nikko

DAMNATION PLAN are:
Asim Searah – vocals
Kalle Niininen – guitar
Antti Lauri – lead guitar
Jaakko Nikko – bass
Jarkko Lunnas – drums

The Finnish progressive metallers Damnation Plan have released a music video for the title track from their upcoming new album ‘The New Horizon’, due out on August 18th.
The band’s drummer-songwriter/lyricist Jarkko Lunnas, who also directed the video, comments on the song and the music video:
“Already before the covid restrictions there was the idea to go and shoot the video at Faroe Islands, an out-of-this-world place surrounded by the water with only the remaining mountain highs and cliff peaks remaining – symbolizing the post-apocalyptic event-ridden world where it’s already too late to do anything about it – the water has risen. The lyrics tell a story through the eyes of the post-apocalyptic survivors, and about humanity’s collective tendency to want to find someone to blame as the simplified solution. When the society’s basic rights structures fail, what is left is the survival game of the fittest.”