Pakkanen - Frost

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.
Drawing 436.

Secret Music by Siegfried Sassoon

 

Horror comedy #4

Starring Greta Thunberg.

Ink drawing by Rinta-Perälä, October 2024.

You Gotta Wash Your Zombie Ass

The Silence of the Slaps

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mambo Number Five

Iron Ore Irises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4iDZefgWU

From Endtime Bestiaries, out January 1, 2025.

Carnatical Powers of Recall

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fixwK-0RbbQ

Endtime Bestiaries is the first Fornax Ferrea album and the 36th by Rinta-Perälä.

This project pays respect to the origins of death metal and celebrates 40 years of the genre.

As it was with my previous metal projects, I'm excited as hell about Fornax Ferrea. One album isn't enough when it comes to exploring these concepts, so this festive bash was expanded into a death metal trilogy.

Endtime Bestiaries will be out January 1, 2025.

Perimurha - Original Murder

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 435.

Vengeful Semblance - Black Classical - Volume II

2022-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKWtL736jQ

Tracks from the last six Vengeful Semblance albums, the grey trilogy and the final three.

Gnossienne was the last recording.

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/

Ohjaa minua - Guide Me

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 434.

Vengeful Semblance: Black Classical - Volume I

 

2019-2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es28ME-VQhc

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/

Sotkuinen - Messy

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 433.

Rashomon (1950) Audio commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6gy1_ZLxw

Rashomon is now officially in my top 10.

My last metal project - Fornax Ferrea

Fornax Ferrea is thunderous death metal and the first album is called Endtime Bestiaries.

I've never done mute picking before, so I wrote an intense and pissed off album to show how I feel about the current state of music.

The album will be out on January 1, 2025. One of the intentions is to celebrate 40 years of death metal (not just because of Possessed.)

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it."
Shakespeare: Hamlet

Two songs from the album will be released this year (October & November). There will also be a Vengeful Semblance compilation called Black Classical on my Youtube channel.

FUCK THE OPPRESSIVE SELLOUTS!

Fuck record labels

 

I hate record labels.

I hate the way they promote things, how they maintain the cult of popularity, how much they need mindless cheerleaders and followers.

It's all a bunch of bullshit.

Don't tell me I'm "insulting record labels." Go fuck yourself. What kind of backwards bullshit is that? Are record labels all of a sudden sacred? When did that start?

Artists should always lead the way. Without musical ideas the entire artform wouldn't exist. You listen to it with your ear holes and you feel something. That's what it's about. Everything else is extra crap.

Having my own record label is out of question. I can barely support myself. I don't know how many Bandcamp accounts I'm eventually going to have, but this I do know: music is in my DNA. I'm here to raise the bar, I'm here to take risks. All that mind-numbing compromising with labels is a waste of time.

Never lose your individuality and curiosity.

Jumalatar - Goddess

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 432.

A story about my radicalised friend

When I was a teenager I knew someone who was radicalised by certain metal bands and their supporters. He had two sides. I always preferred his humane and comical side.

He basically fell into the old "Blasphemy and Burzum" trap. Around 2001, when we were 16, he started talking about "Aryans", racist stereotypes and clearly promoted bands with fascist inclinations. The third band was Graveland. I was aware of the racism in some areas of metal, but I usually only heard the music. "Heaven Shall Burn" by Marduk featured the Waffen-SS sign but I didn't know anything about it.

Marduk has been using the Waffen-SS sign in their artwork since the mid-90s. It's incredibly specific. They can't always use the World War II excuse. If you're only listening to mp3s and don't look at the artwork, the connection might seem too obscure. Throughout the years Marduk's Nazi obsession has become more and more obvious. I've never been a fan of them.

Waffen-SS was not voluntary. Young people were forced to swear oaths and no one could criticise it in any way. Young people are looking for a direction these days. I've seen racist graffiti and stickers everywhere.

Many bands in the early 90s were clearly reading about esoteric Nazism. Savitri Devi wrote a book called "The Lightning and the Sun" and she claimed that Hitler was the incarnation of Vishnu. If you go to Twitter right now, you will find far-right people who are writing that exact same crap. Impaled Nazarene was one of the first Finnish bands to include fascist references without discussing them in an intelligent way.

Almost everything my friend used to recommend musically had some sort of connection to neo-Nazism. I always thought those bands were incredibly stupid and didn't reinforce his initiations. But I wish I had explained my views more. You can't just blame his descent into extremism on stupidity and laziness. Our interactions ended 20 years ago. As far as I know my friend never became a neo-Nazi.

This has to be an ongoing conversation in the metal world. You can't just ask, "Are you a Nazi?" People can always say no. The key question is this: how would you criticise the far-right, the fascists or the Nazis? If you're denying all connections to these groups, you should also criticise them. Critical thinking is vital. If they refuse to express any kind of disapproval, you should always have a follow-up question.

Much like some autocratic politicians, some of these far-right bands frequently have the same safe interviewers who don't challenge anything they say. Neo-Nazis would love to be mainstream, but as they slowly creep towards their goal, it's important to remember this: they also love silence.

New audio commentary - August 1, 2024

My next written audio commentary is for Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950.)

Commentatio Gratia Artis

It will be on this channel on August 1, 2024.

How I lost my book virginity

The first book I ever fondled and had sex with was called "Bill O'Reilly for Kids" written by Bill O'Reilly.

Now that I think about it... I think that book fondled me first.

So the Woods Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt6LS3kERrM

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

1. Pineland
2. So the Woods Answer
3. Lunar Curls
4. Finnmarksvidda
5. Noaidde
6. Lonely Wolf at a Graveyard
7. Unlit River of the Underworld

The 35th album by Rinta-Perälä. Written between 2002 and 2024.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, April-May 2024.

New album is a return to folky classical

 

Pineland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZhIBKJjPk

"So the Woods Answer" is a new chapter in the series that originated with the debut and continued with "On the Fells" and "Night of the Seven Suns".

Out June 21, 2024. This is the 35th album and more music is going to be released next year.

These songs exclusively feature a kantele, Finland's national instrument.

Lover

"The sensible is always worried

and looking for prominence;

the lover is always lost

and without a prominent sense."

Mawlana Rumi, To Be a Child Again

Unenvuodatus - Dream Shedding

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 431.

Wraithfire

 

1. Choristers of Noctum
2. Mountain Ash Downfall
3. Incubus Skin Tower
4. Whispering Zephyr
5. Shattered Warmaster
6. Smoke Circle Eye
7. Cold to the Dragonish Bone
8. Three Horns of the Umbra

The third and final Grallochery album.

Dedicated to the 2024 solar eclipse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DuilsqFl_8

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/album/wraithfire

Cold to the Dragonish Bone

 Second advance track from Wraithfire. May 17, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3M55pLt1NY

Shattered Warmaster

Shattered Warmaster, from Wraithfire, May 17, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FJQdGSovU

Final Grallochery album will occur on May 17, 2024

 

Grallochery was originally created in 2022 as Crowned Underhound. Musically it always represented raw and energetic black metal influenced by pre-93 bands like Celtic Frost, Bathory and Darkthrone.

The third and final album is called Wraithfire and it will be out on May 17, 2024. The music was written during one night, April 8. Even though I didn't personally see the solar eclipse, I felt an urge to write unsparing black metal songs one more time.

This year is not going to be as packed as 2023, but I already have more works planned.

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

About Grallochery

 

Unused logo for Crowned Underhound.

Hirvi - Elk

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 430.

Maasta olet sinä tullut - Earth to Earth

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 429.

Vala - Oath

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 428.

About Grallochery

 

The name of this project was originally supposed to be Crowned Underhound. I even drew a logo for it. One demo was recorded under that name and the material eventually ended up on Your Spine Is a Pierced Snake, the final Vengeful Semblance album. Vengeful Semblance did not become Grallochery. They are two completely separate ideas.

Grallochery as a word is a mixture of Scottish and English. It means gutting a deer. I came up with that name in late 2022 as I was entertaining the idea of having a different kind of black metal project.

I love programming all kinds of drums and some of my private demos have a drum kit in the mix, even though the final version almost never has that. I have never had a physical drum kit, so programming is my way of coming up with rhythms and beats. I've been a hand drummer my whole life.

These albums are a response to those who think black metal is just a blast of heinous crap and the dumbest cliches. I started listening to this type of music in the mid-90s and I've heard enough hyperspeed nonsense, trust me.

Avoiding fast blast beats, religious rhetoric and black thrash, I wrote two albums back to back in November 2023. Reign in Blood is one of my favourite albums, but I'm not interested in recording thrash metal. The sharp guitar tone reminds me of Slayer, Celtic Frost and Darkthrone.

I was supposed to record a cover of Fainted Eyes by Celtic Frost for Vengeful Semblance, but it never happened. Bathory's Son of the Damned was more appropriate for Grallochery.

The vocals were inspired by The Evil Dead. I wanted to achieve that without using a harmonizer. Just my own voice, no doubled tracks or effects.

Grallochery is about the intensity of pre-93 black metal. Crowned Underhound was my 14th black metal album and I'm not sure if I will ever make more.

Crowned Underhound - out now

1. Crowned Underhound
2. Unsung Damnation
3. Grotto Titan
4. Underground Gauntlet
5. Serpent Sword for No Ruler
6. Megatriskeleton
7. Starlit Cerebral Graves
8. Blood Vigils
9. Gorgon Curse
10. Son of the Damned (Bathory cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQOGqjyYtw4
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

The second Grallochery album and the 33rd by Rinta-Perälä. Crowned Underhound is possibly the last release for this project.

Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, December 2023 and January 2024.

Tracks 1-9: Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Dedicated to rabid dogs and demonic warthogs.

Son of the Damned - exclusive Bathory cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Fv_9OAk8M

The second Grallochery album Crowned Underhound is out March 15, 2024.

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com/

Hengen palo - Burning Spirit

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 427.

New track from the second Grallochery album

 

Underground Gauntlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaRCqwF5ey0

Feral black metal onslaught continues with the second album written in November 2023. This is going to be the last Grallochery release for now.

Crowned Underhound will be unleashed on March 15, 2024.

Härkä - Ox

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 426.

Carnassial - out now

 

01. Carnassial
02. Impaled Firmament Fragment
03. Wound Cut Off
04. Sylvan Doors to the Odd
05. Granite Shepherd
06. Phobic Seizure
07. Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes
08. Utterly Human Path
09. Endochaos
10. Queen of Windswept Aurora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8TiFmE85EQ
https://grallochery.bandcamp.com

The 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Dedicated to the night atmosphere in Perälä and Gerby.

Progeny Cremated in Her Eyes

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6ByDaD__c

Carnassial, February 16, 2024.

New project - album out February 16, 2024

 

Wound Cut Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPAWf8DLDNE

Grallochery is feral black metal with vocals and a drum kit in the mix. Rawness with full clarity.

This project contains some elements from Vengeful Semblance and Vortice Neuro.

Carnassial is the 32nd album by Rinta-Perälä. Written in dark November 2023. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, November - December 2023.

Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Album out February 16, 2024.

Verenhimo - Bloodlust

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2024.

Drawing 425.

The Tearful Portal - out now

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqy_t5gAAc

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/the-tearful-portal

1. Seven Truths Rush from the River
2. Poison Apple Frozen in Sand
3. More Than Meets the Mind
4. Ash Candles
5. Realm of No Inner Life
6. Distant Times Deaden
7. Black and White in the Flesh
8. Cognisant Funeral March

No separate category for anti-fascist art

 

I am anti-fascist. Everything I have done creatively and politically has been anti-fascist. There is no need for a separate category when it comes to fighting far-right insanity and dictatorships.

Instead of labeling other people constantly, you have to ask yourself: what kind of approach do you have? How much emphasis do you put on counter-extremism as a way to fight extremism?

Anti-fascist commitment becomes apparent in different ways. It doesn't have to be tattooed on your forehead. Not every ground-breaking album has to be called Fascism Sucks.

Creativity is so much more interesting. It can't just be rhetoric, counter-propaganda or naively black-and-white dabbling. You can't just do the exact opposite of something you don't like.

Anti-fascist art should be a universal movement and a sentiment. The more creative you are, the more you realise how stupid fascism is. All we can do is unite against it.

If you're obsessed with categorising other people, you don't feel anything anymore.

The illusion of guaranteed views

 

The reason I'm creating art cannot be reduced to numbers. I am not online or on Youtube to make money. Art is a realm where ideas have a life of their own. All that is completely eliminated if people just look at numbers.

We decide what is on platforms online. It is completely up to us. We also decide what we choose to talk about or focus on. Worrying about a mass audience is a waste of time. That's not what reality is. And yes, we still exist in reality.

The illusion of guaranteed views has been created by people who want to make money on Youtube. It's not the platform. It's not even the algorithm.

The algorithm doesn't care about anyone or anything. It doesn't care about your interests, struggles, your family, your friends, "community", supporters or whatever is currently keeping you on that platform.

Hopefully you care. No algorithm in the world cares about what I genuinely care about. They are time-wasting machines.

Same goes for marketing machines and the sellouts who worship them. Most of these marketing lunatics assume that you are the biggest consumer who is only concerned with popularity. Who are these imaginary people? Do you really just want the same popular stuff over and over again? I don't think so.

The whole thing turns into a hamster wheel. They pay you, you do stuff, they pay you, you do stuff. It doesn't matter if you call yourself independent. Anyone can make these mistakes.

Millions of people are wasting their lives shooting fish in a barrel. Doing the bare minimum and obsessing over numbers. Smart people can also make the mistake of being fame-obsessed. You can't just point at the worst stereotypes. They are a distraction. Pointing to the fact that so many people are fame-obsessed doesn't work as an argument.

Cognisant Funeral March

 

Cognisant Funeral March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gIFVkvqJA

From The Tearful Portal, out January 15, 2024.