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Finnish blackened death metal act
SAASTA
will relese EP
‘Black | Death | Doom’
artwork by Pla.g.u.e
track-list:
Stygian Grey
Black / Death / Doom
Sickness
Murhattu
Saasta’s second production ‘Black | Death | Doom’ EP containing four songs, is a continuation of the ‘Crucial to None’ LP released in November 2022.
The EP was recorded in its entirety at Saasta’s rehearsal space in Kotka, Finland.
Mixing and mastering of the EP was carried out by Mr. Ben Jones from England.
The visual art for the EP is produced by Pla.g.u.e.
Musically, the release is significantly faster and more violent than the previous long play.
“The sound world has also changed a lot; already in the pre-production phase, we wanted to pay attention to rawness and brightness. In today’s extreme metal, the midrange of the bass guitar is typically driven down almost completely, and the bass is only a filler instrument in the lower register. We wanted to avoid this and tried to raise the bass to an equal element with the guitar, succeeding nicely and naturally here as well. It was very easy to raise the bass alongside the guitar also thanks to Janne Hietanen’s heavy-handed playing style.”
Vocalist Leevi Kärsämä, who has played live shows with Saasta for the past year, also brings a new sound to Saasta’s music, allowing Jokipii to focus on playing the guitar.
Choosing Kärsämä as a vocalist has turned out to be an extremely good decision.
Drummer Jimi Lahtinen’s increased self-confidence and arranging skills can be heard on the EP.
The drum tracks recorded ‘in one fell swoop’ style made the work of the other members very easy.
In full ‘Black | Death | Doom’ is a more mature and finished package than the previous release.
Saasta believes that with the EP it has finally found it’s style, both musically and visually.
Finnish blackened death metal band
SAASTA
has relesed single/video
‘Sickness’
composed by Topias Jokipii
lyrics by Topias Jokipii
arranged by Jimi Lahtinen & Janne Hietanen
lead actor for ‘Sickness’ – Otto Kuitunen
videography – Meiju Mäkelä, Sampo Jokipii, Janne Hietanen
video editing – Janne Hietanen
mixed and mastered by Ben Jones
Saasta are:
Leevi Kärsämä – vocals
Topias Jokipii – guitar, backing vocals
Janne Hietanen – bass
Jimi Lahtinen – drums
Hailing from Kotka, Finland, Blackened Death Metal band Saasta will release their new EP ‘Black | Death | Doom’ on December 5th 2023.
The first single ‘Sickness’ and music video of the opus in question has been released.
The band’s debut album ‘Crucial to None’ was released in November 2022.
Founded together with the drummer Jimi Lahtinen, the band’s guitarist Topias Jokipii comments on the freshly released single:
“The song presents a reborn, dirtier and in its own beautiful way, a more obnoxious kind of Saasta. After I shifted from a guitarist-singer to solely playing guitar, Mr Leevi Kärsämä had the guts to step in as a singer. This change gave Saasta a new life and the band truly found themselves, both musically and visually, and that can be clearly heard on the new release. The merciless playing style of the band’s bassist Janne Hietanen supports the music of a metal band with only one guitar perfectly, and thus, maybe even a little unorthodoxly, the bass is raised to be an equal instrument with the guitar, instead of presenting a steady, boring low register. The artwork of the EP describes perfectly the visual side of Saasta, which is incredibly important to us when playing live shows.”
Saasta has also released a music video for the single ‘Sickness’.
The video is a merciless description of an individual fallen beyond the safety nets of society, and to what an extreme sickness of mind can lead to.