Swallow the Sun

Swallow sunlight certainly are a Finnish loss of life and doom steel band. These were produced in early 2000 with vocalist Mikko Kotamäki, guitarists Juha Raivio and Markus Jämsen, keyboardist Aleksi Munter, bassist Matti Honkonen, and drummer Pasi Pasanen. Their debut record, The Morning Hardly ever Came, was released on Firebox in 2003. It had been followed 2 yrs later by Spirits of Loss, offering the solitary “Forgive Her…,” which got within the Finnish TOP. In 2006 they authorized to Spinefarm Information and released their third recording, Wish, in 2007. It included a cover edition from the Timo Rautiainen and Trio Niskalaukaus music “Alavilla Mailla” (“These Low Lands” in British) and was sung by visitor vocalist Tomi Joutsen, frontman of Amorphis. The recording also included another visitor appearance from Katatonia’s Jonas Renkse on “The Justice of Struggling.” The solitary “Don’t DRIFT OFF” premiered in January of 2007 and moved into the graphs at number 3, as do the recording. The music group undertook its 1st UNITED STATES tour later on that yr with Katatonia, Scar tissue Symmetry, and Insomnium; in addition, it took these to Portugal, Spain, and European countries — the music group played over 100 shows in every. In November they released the live video Doomed to Walk the planet earth as a record from the tour. Swallow sunlight released the Plague of Butterflies EP in 2008. The next year Pasanen still left the music group and was changed by Kai Hahto of Wintersun. In June and July of 2009 Swallow sunlight spent three weeks documenting in Sweden with manufacturer Jens Bogren, rising using the full-length New Moon. Issued in November, the record hit amount ten over the Finnish graphs. The group’s 5th studio record, Emerald Forest as well as the Blackbird, premiered in 2012 on Spinefarm and got into the steel and Finnish graphs at number 2. The set highlighted a visitor appearance from vocalist Anette Olzon of Nightwish on “Cathedral Wall space.” The music group toured continuously throughout 2012 and 2013, playing in European countries with Paradise Shed, ultimately playing Tokyo and China aswell. In June of 2014 they undertook another Western european tour to tag the tenth wedding anniversary from the Morning Hardly ever Came and afterwards performed Brazil. In July of this year Hahto became a member of Nightwish being a full-time member. He still left Swallow sunlight reluctantly; music group and drummer stated it was short-term and he’d come back when (and when) his Nightwish timetable allowed for this. Drummer Juuso Raatikainen, previously of Heathen Hoof, was enlisted to displace him. The music group and its brand-new drummer were composing prolifically but weren’t recording. This continued for over per year. Seeking better conditions with Spinefarm, they ultimately still left to indication with Century Mass media and began documenting in a furious speed. In June of 2015, Raivio announced that the prosperity of material led to a triple-length record entitled Songs in the North I, II & III, three distinct but connected recordings that showcased different facets of Swallow the Sun’s musical character. In three successive weeks, from mid-October through early November, the music group previewed one music from each quantity, even while touring the U.S. and European countries. Songs through the North I, II & III premiered on November 13, 2015.