Solacide is
not the usual in the face death/black metal band. These guys are creators and
breeders of metal tempests in the verge of bands such as Vital Remains,
Melechesh, Opeth, Beyond Creation, IMMORTAL but in their own unique way. Explosive
compositions of death and black with a progressive twirl is the offering and
when it comes to ignite the stage they do it with unparallel energy. The mood
is aggressive and persistent but also intellectually sharp; you can expect
professionalism and a destructive ambient that will keep you “observant” and
mindful and at the same time reckless and lunatic.
Murder of solace aka Solacide bring us an EP entitled "Waves of Hate" which is nothing more than the re-arranged and re-recorded 2006 demo of the same name, but including two bonus tracks live in Kouvola in 2010 during the Disaster Tour and of course a new artwork. These bonus tracks are - "God on Fire" from the EP "Baptized in Disgust" 2009 and "Nothing Weak Survives" This serves perfectly as a taste for the full-length album that is currently being recorded, scheduled to be released at the beginning of 2014.
... it gives you a reason to live , it gives you a reason to be, giving me a reason to hate.
1. Waves of Hate
2. Your Worst Enemy
3. After the Fall
4. God on Fire (live)
5. Nothing Weak Survives (live)
Gökhan Korkmaz - Lead Vocals Kimmo Korhonen - Guitar, Vocals, Synth Joonas Vanhalakka- Guitar Sami Tikkanen - Bass Matti Jauhola - Drums
Solacide recorded their newest EP “Waves of Hate” during winter-spring 2013 at their own studio in Lahti. EP consists of 3 studio songs and 2 bonus live songs, which were recorded during their DisEaster Tour in 2010. “Waves of Hate” was mixed and mastered by Juho Räihä (Gloria Morti, Before The Dawn) at SoundSpiral Audio. “Waves of Hate” is released through Gravity Entertainment on 2 September 2013 and is distributed by Plastic Head Distribution / Code7 Music.
Music & Lyrics by Kimmo Korhonen
Artwork by M. Kankaanpaeae
Additional Keyboards by Veli-Matti Kyllönen
Clean Vocals at "After The Fall" by Kimmo Korhonen
One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark, Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry,music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here!"
Solacide announced that the new EP “WAVES OF HATE” will be released on 2 September 2013 through Swiss Label Gravity Entertainment and will be distributed by Plastic Head/ Code7 Music. Solacide’s forthcoming release “WAVES OF HATE” was recorded during Spring 2013 in Lahti and was mixed & mastered by Juho Räihä (Before the Dawn, Gloria Morti) at SoundSpirial Audio in Kouvola. “WAVES OF HATE” has 3 aggressive, fiery and yet melodic studio songs.
"The EP has also two live bonus songs, which were recorded during our Diseaster Tour in 2010. We will be hitting studio during August 2013 to record our full-length album. Stay tuned!" Adds the band.
HeavyHardMetalmania brings us an emerging band from Finland. Kimmo and Gökhan tell us everything that we did not know, pics and video ... check below.
Nuno Ribeiro - Can you Clarify just a curiosity "SOLACIDE" = the sun's murder?
Kimmo: Actually Solacide means murder of solace.
NR - Is the message in your work based on discharging your own aggressions.... emotions/feelings?
Kimmo: Everything I write is basically a way for me to express different feelings and thoughts, not just aggressions. We haven´t written about fantasy stories, I think there are so many unbelievable stories from real life, that I rather write about those. There are so many things wrong in this world, that there should not be any problems of having ideas what to write about.
NR - SOLACIDE has the background of melodic death metal; the surface feels like Black Metal. This mixture will not please the purists ... looks great in the final product.
Is there a Mix of influences from synergies with its members?
Kimmo: Heh, I know purists probably hates our stuff, but then again our music is not meant to please people with so narrow taste of music. Up until this point I´ve written everything in the band, music, lyrics and arranged also. I have quite vast variety of influences, and most of them are not Death or Black Metal. I just try to create something new when I write a new song. Even though we sound like Death/Black Metal, I think we have our own perspective to the music, you can hear it´s Solacide.
Gökhan: In my opinion, there is good music and also there is bad music. There are lots of good pure black metal bands, old school death metals, thrash metal bands, etc. out there but there also shitty ones. I, myself love those kinds of music,so I am a "purist" too, in that manner. I received so many positive feedbacks from many "purist" looking guys after our gigs like "your music&performance is like a punch in the face" ,or "your music&performance is like ass-raping/ass-drilling metal". So I think that "purists" like us, at least after seeing us once at stage.
NR- With this result comes the first EP (demo) of the band of 2009, with an independent release.
The discharge of aggression throughout this work is constant, why the name "Baptized In Disgust?
Kimmo: I remember we had a problem on inventing a name for the EP. The name basically comes from the idea of baptism, how ridiculous it is to baptize new born babies to some religion, which they won´t understand for a long time. But that´s the idea of brainwashing, to program you to love something that any reasonable human being would find disgusting.
NR - SOLACIDE has been also preparing new material and as expected they´ll be in studio this year for the release of its first “full-length".
Can you lift the veil a little bit and give us details of the new job? What can we expect?
Kimmo: We will record a promo version during the summer, and I hope we will have time to go to studio during autumn to do the proper album. It´s going to be really special for us, we´ve been doing demos and EP´s for the last 10 years, so I think it is time for the first full-length finally. It´s going to be aggressive, progressive, but also melodic. We have very good musicians in the band, so playing is very tight. And also the feeling inside the band is good, everyone loves playing in the band and gets along together very well, and I believe you can hear it from our playing.
NR - The Band in the past two years has given gigs in Finland and Russia.
How did the public reacted in these performances?
Don´t you feel the need "to get closer to the sun" an approach to the west to a more attractive market?
Kimmo: Russia was a rough trip, but the audience was good. We´ve had good shows in Finland too, but the audience is always very shy, unless they´re drunk off their asses. But that´s the same thing with most bands who play in clubs here. Sad to say, but the worst audience I´ve ever seen is in Finland, and I´ve done quite a few shows across the Europe with different bands. It seems that we have more fans around Middle Europe than here in Finland, so of course we try approach markets abroad.
Gökhan: We have some plans for playing some shows in Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Estonia and Turkey next year.
NR - SOLACIDE is already based on a very appetizing sound...with a professionalism flavor. Getting a label would prove to be the ideal at a time like this?
Kimmo: It would. We´ve had quite a few offers from labels, but none of them has been really interesting. We can smell the rip-off deals mile away, and we´re interested only on proper deal.
Gökhan: There had been a few labels offering us deal. Some of them were very well-intentioned but some of them were just ridiculous. Once a label sent as an email stating that they offer us a label deal and we have to make the whole recording ourselves and press all the cds, covers ourselves and send the cds to them. They said we would get some percentage from the sales. I wrote them back that this is not a label deal, this is a distribution deal. The guy replied me "yes, you are right, this is a distribution deal" . Some people are just loss of time.
NR - Well, I leave you now the opportunity to distill your hatred in these last lines! "discharging own aggressions.”
Gökhan & Kimmo: You will be able to read “the discharged own aggressions” in and between the lines of the upcoming album.
NR - Thank you for your time.
Gökhan &Kimmo: Thank you for the interview, and everyone go check out Solacide from Reverbnation, Facebook, Myspace and our live videos from Youtube.
Solacide was founded in autumn 1996 by Kimmo Korhonen and Masa Jauhola. Solacide worked under the name Dim Moonlight until late 2004. First three years the band spent finding its musical direction and going through several line-up changes. In spring 2000 Dim Moonlight recorded its first demo …To Tranquility at Studio Kuja, Lahti. The rest of the year 2000 the band went again through many line-up changes, writing and rehearsing new material.
Late 2002 Kimmo and Masa went to Oriville Studios to record a new demo, Pleasure Of Existence. In 2004 the band changed its name to Solacide, and two new members joined the band; bass player Sami Tikkanen joined in early spring 2005 and guitarist Joonas Vanhalakka in September 2005.
In November-December 2005 Solacide recorded Waves Of Hate -demo. It was recorded at their rehearsal house, and was released in January 2006. In April 2008 Gökhan Korkmaz joined as lead singer, and Solacide recorded new demo Baptized In Disgust in May 2008, which was released in February 2009 and received praising reviews. 2009 and 2010 Solacide spended writing new material and doing gigs across Finland and Russia, and audience acknowledged band as a professional, aggressive and fiery live band. Band will enter the studio in 2011 to record a full-length album and will continue doing shows more and more.
Below you can hear the devastating fury of this band`s demo "Baptized In Disgust" in full!
