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EPK – Unshine – Astrala (2018) (Rockshots Records)

  • January 2, 2018
  • by Asher
  • · UNSHINE (Rockshots Records)

Unshine – Astrala (2018) (Rockshots Records)

For fans of Doom metal, Post-Metal, Folk Metal and Black Metal

Release Date:January 19, 2018 (Europe), February 9, 2018 (North America)

Publicist – Jon Asher ashermedia(@)gmail.com

Rockshots.eu | Unshine.com | Facebook | Twitter

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Release Date: January 19, 2018 (Europe), February 9, 2018 (North America)
Label: Rockshots Records

Track Listing:
1. Birch of Fornjot (1:35)
2. Kainun Kuningas (5:13)
3. Jack’s Feast (6:38)
4. The Masks of Enchantment (4:54)
5. Pan The One (4:44)
6. Druids Are A-Coming (4:11)
7. Slow Moving Creatures (5:19)
8. Visionary’s Last Breath (5:32)
9. Suo (Kantaa Ruumiit) (6:06)
10. The Forest (10:28)
Album Length: 54:43

Album Credits:
– All compositions and lyrics written by Harri Hautala, arrangements by UNSHINE
– Recorded and mixed at D-studio by Jarno Hänninen. Additional recordings by at Studio Church 

– Boat by Harri Hautala and UNSHINE
– Mastered by Jarno Hänninen

Band Line-up:
Susanna Vesilahti (Vocals)

Harri Hautala (Guitar and Keyboards)
Jari Hautala (guitar)
Teemu Vähäkangas (Bass)

Jukka Hantula (Drums and Percussions)

Discography:
2002 – Promo
2003 – Promo 
2004 – Promo
2005 – Rowena’s Song (Single, Low Frequency Records)
2005 – Earth Magick (Full-length, Low Frequency Records)
2008 – Animal Spirit (Full-length, Low Frequency Records)
2008 – The Enigma of Immortals (Full-length, Low Frequency Records)
2013 – Dark Half Rising (Full-length, Massacre Records)

2018 – Astrala (Rockshots Records)

 

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The sign of a truly special band is that they transcend their own influences to create their own unique sound. Druid Metal!

Such a band is Unshine!

Inspired by artists as diverse as Enslaved, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Tangerine Dream and Iron Maiden, guitarist Harri describes their sound as ‘Finnish druid and folk metal’.

As guitarist Harri says proudly. “Unshine has always been a band without the traditional role models. For us, the most important thing in a song is the melody. Sounds and rhythms create the overall atmosphere, but the melody makes the whole ancient story in it come to life.”

Nature is the true influence on Unshine’s music. Their alpha and omega. Their beginning and end. The modern world may have almost forgotten the ancient ways, but Unshine keep them alive in words and music. “The songs try to reunite the old bonds between the dolmen gods and digitised mankind. Nature is not our enemy, it’s our physical and especially spiritual home.”

This is not surprising when one realises that all five members of Unshine, friends for many years, were all raised in the countryside villages of Western Finland.

With a long history of recording and playing behind them, Unshine are super-stoked about the released of their new album ‘Astrala’, which is inspired by the “invisible side of the Earth. The first five album songs address the manifestations of Astrala and the last five songs describe travels to Astrala. The album has a touch of Nordic melancholy written all over it, also in the lyrics, and it includes music meant to create landscapes and themes from folk stories, mythology and nature religions, but also to present personal views describing the spiritual meaning of a forest as a cultural concept. The binding theme here is forest, although this is not a theme album.”

(bio written Steve Earles)

 

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