SINISTHRA - Eterne (Official Music Video)

Finland’s Sinisthra featuring Amorphis vocalist Tomi Joutsen are sharing the new music video for single 'Eterne' off their forthcoming album, “The Broad and Beaten Way” due out May 15, 2020 via Rockshots Records. Listen on Spotify ➤ https://spoti.fi/35o3q72 Album pre-order: CD ➤ https://bit.ly/sinisthra_preorder DIGITAL (instant grat) ➤ https://bit.ly/Sinisthra_digital Drummer Erkki Virta adds: "'Eterne' is the most straight- forward song on the album, almost a total opposite to the first single "Closely Guarded Distance". It's the album opener and sets the stage for things to come, with the expulsion from Eden taking place and everything irredeemably changed. The video was shot in a ruined house that was my childhood home. It solidifies the fact that things can't be reversed although some echoes might remain of what used to be." Album Credits: Music by Markku Mäkinen Vocal lines by Tomi Joutsen Lyrics by Erkki Virta Sinisthra is: Tomi Joutsen - Vocals Markku Mäkinen - Guitar Erkki Virta -Drums Timo Vainio - Keyboards Marko Välimäki - Guitar Janne Telen - Bass FOLLOW ROCKSHOTS RECORDS: http://www.rockshots.eu http://www.facebook.com/rockshotsrecords https://www.instagram.com/rockshotsre... https://www.twitter.com/rockshotsrec https://shop.rockshots.eu/ FOLLOW SINISTHRA: http://www.facebook.com/Sinisthra https://www.instagram.com/sinisthra_o... LYRICS: So we lost our mindless faith we lost the option only to obey and our false innocence so we lost the path preset the absence of choice bestowed on us we lost ourselves as we were And we are to blame and we lost our names but we never lost Eden And so as my blood I bleed unto the ground the ground will spawn a rose and so as the rose I touch will hide a thorn the thorn will draw my blood We felt the high winds rise within we found about the Left Hand and freewill and the meaning of lust a wraith of flowers upon our hair as morning took us to the Eastern Gate to go our separate ways #sinisthra #tomijoutsen #amorphis

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Montreal, QC - May 8, 2020

For fans of Katatonia, Anathema, Amorphis

Rockshots Records: Sinisthra (ft. Amorphis' Tomi Joutsen) New Music Video 'Eterne'

New Album “The Broad and Beaten Way” Out May 15th via Rockshots Records

  

Finland’s Sinisthra featuring Amorphis vocalist Tomi Joutsen are sharing the new music video for single 'Eterne' off their forthcoming album, “The Broad and Beaten Way” due out May 15, 2020 via Rockshots Records.

Listen to 'Eterne' at the following links:

Music Video HERE.

Spotify HERE.

The band adds:

'"Eterne' is the most straight- forward song on the album, almost a total opposite to the first single "Closely Guarded Distance". It's the album opener and sets the stage for things to come, with the expulsion from Eden taking place and everything irredeemably changed. The video was shot in a ruined house that was my childhood home. It solidifies the fact that things can't be reversed although some echoes might remain of what used to be."

Best described as sadness tinged with despair and hope, “The Broad and Beaten Way” encapsulates raw emotion set against heavy and brooding music. This album comes 15 years after the debut record “Last of the Stories of Long Past Glories”, and its manifestation has been a slow and arduous process. The songs were written ages ago while other projects, primarily vocalist Tomi Joutsen’s presence in Amorphis, were given priority from the band members.

Guitarist Markku Mäkinen writes the majority of the music for the highly elusive band whose original and complex sound has often been mislabeled. The band explains the evolution of their music:

“We all had a history in thrash and death metal bands, but when the band originally came together in 2000, there was not much metal at all in the sound, it was leaning more towards grunge and at times trip-hop. After the first album in 2005, the sound took a lot more metallic turn, and something came in from 70’s prog as well. Metal genres are irrelevant to us.”

The name for the album comes from “Paradise Lost” by John Milton; “The Broad and Beaten Way” is a bridge from Hell to Earth with the lyrics taking inspiration from the fall of man, and from leading a chaotic and self-destructive modern-day life and trying to find solid ground and perhaps even some peace of mind. “Eterne” is the first song, where the metaphorical Adam and Eve are expelled, both from Eden and from their union, and in the last song “Ephemeral” Adam, solitary, finally accepts his past actions as futile.

The melancholic sojourn, suitable for fans of Katatonia, Anathema, and Amorphis is available for pre-order at the following links:

CD - http://bit.ly/Sinisthra_CD

Digital (iTunes) - https://bit.ly/Sinisthra_digital

Lyric Video 'Closely Guarded Distance' HERE.

Track Listing:1. Eterne (4:19)
2. Closely Guarded Distance (13:10)
3. Halfway To Somewhere Else (7:43)
4. Morning Frail (5:56)
5. Safe In The Arms of The Everlasting Now (7:26)
6. Ephemeral (4:05)Album Length: 42:43

Album Credits:

Music by Markku Mäkinen
Vocal lines by Tomi Joutsen
Lyrics by Erkki Virta

Sinisthra is:
Tomi Joutsen - Vocals
Markku Mäkinen - Guitar
Erkki Virta - Drums
Timo Vainio - Keyboards
Marko Välimäki - GuitarJanne Telén - Bass

For more info:

Rockshots.eu

Facebook.com/Sinisthra

About:

SINISTHRA comes from Finland and has been in various stages of existence since 1999. Their style of music is basically metal, drawing from a wide source of different influences and blending them to a sound that can't really be compared to any one single band. Always quite melancholic, most of the time quite heavy, and often with strong shades of 70’s prog with lesser shades of 90’s grunge.

The name SINISTHRA derives from the Italian word sinistra, meaning "the left side" and representing the allegory of creativity, femininity, individuality and general free-thinking pathways of the Left Hand, without the hollow "satanic" or any other religious connotations. The lyrics veer away from most commonly used themes and focus heavily on more personal and intimate subjects. Sinisthra is all about contrasts, frail yet crushing, sad yet content, silent but roaring. Melancholy without utter despair. Darkness tinged with light.

Gravel covered with honey. The only dogma is never to acknowledge musical boundaries, and never to use the words "love" and "death" in the lyrics.

The band released one album in 2005, called “Last Of The Stories Of Long Past Glories” to favourable reviews and got labeled “gothic metal”, somewhat misleadingly, but as the singer Tomi Joutsen joined Amorphis, his career skyrocketed and Sinisthra’s didn’t, so due to lack of time from his part, things slowed down.

Now Sinisthra has completed their second album “The Broad And Beaten Way” and are ready to finally release it. The road has been long, winding and mostly uphill, and promises to remain so in the future as well.

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