Trial of the Fatal Forces

1. Torturous Death Bell Tolls
2. Imperious Fabler
3. Dark Night of the Omnipresent
4. Birthblind
5. Pendulum Crown
6. Divide the Arterial Sea
7. Impure Carbon Phantom
8. Behind Enlightened Walls
9. Pain Stands Rootless

https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZ_ww2wWEE

Second track from Trial of the Fatal Forces

Imperious Fabler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98kZDmDZ29k

Fornax Ferrea trilogy is complete

 

Dark Night of the Omnipresent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbB-Jsmjuao

Trial of the Fatal Forces is the concluding album in the death metal trilogy and the 40th by Rinta-Perälä.

Out April 1, 2025.
https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com

Nälkä - Appetite

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 440.

Soft alternative rock and pop culture are draining your potential

"I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is, above all, force."
- Gustave Flaubert

Art gives us different ways of discussing and portraying important things. When reality becomes too painful, it's easy to slip into the passive mode. Passivity and escapism will never let you discover your potential.

This is a form of censorship. Both self-censorship and fear in the public eye. The fear of being different.

The cliche of government sanitisation is just a diversion. There's no need for an oppressive government if narrow-minded people can dominate the creative fields.

One of the biggest symptoms is music and art turning into pure escapism. Harmless and formulaic playlists promoted by algorithms. These are mainly driven by popularity and commercial obsessions.

I didn't care about popularity in school as a kid. Why would I care about it now?

Critical thinking, creativity and curiosity are not compatible with self-censorship. Anyone who's creative or interested in the results of imaginative work: look around you. Now is not the time to soften the blow.

Phantasmentum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgQs4unvro

https://grallochery.bandcamp.com

1. Raging Blood of a Geminate Poet
2. And Tyranny Fell
3. Destinies Bursting into Sight
4. Painted Hex
5. Offering of Unbounded Eyes
6. Engraved in Neonates
7. Stone Coffin for a Funeral Moon
8. Itinerant Sabbath

The fourth Grallochery album and the 39th by Rinta-Perälä.

Written and recorded in October-December 2024, Silence & Desolation Studio, Finland.

Dedicated to the artists whose works were included in the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, Munich 1937.

Destinies Bursting into Sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLW2mNFCiRA

From "Phantasmentum." Out March 1, 2025.

A two and a half minute song. No, I'm not embarrassed.

Written in Waters 30 years

 

Ved Buens Ende was active in the mid-90s, just at the right time when black metal '93 was becoming boring. Written in Waters is an imaginative effort and it reminds me of memorable art music. The dissonance is not too obvious.

One of the compilations I listened to in 1997 had Carrier of Wounds on it, but unfortunately I usually skipped it. I wasn't ready for it at the age of 12. Fleurety had recorded a song called Absence and I remember listening to that a lot. Arcturus interested me even more.

The next step a few years later was listening to the Thorns discography, the 1994 demo from Ved Buens Ende and of course, Written in Waters.

I'm so glad they can still tour and bring in some sort of crowd.

Grallochery rises from the grave

And Tyranny Fell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3WeRhTBgs8

Last year I announced the end of this black metal project, but I guess it's still preying on my mind. The third Fornax Ferrea album is not finished yet, so here's another in-your-face assault.

Phantasmentum is the fourth Grallochery album and the 39th by Rinta-Perälä.

Out March 1, 2025.

Inspirited by black metal before the rules of 1993 existed.

Written and recorded in October-December 2024, Silence & Desolation Studio.

FINNISH FUCKING BLACK METAL

Metal is not about the comfort of nazis

 

Now, more than ever, we have to think about who we are supporting. The different genres we listen to on a daily basis can be exploited, seized and degraded. Far-right bands are still defecating on the metal foundry.

Bands like Marduk referring to non-white people as "barren mud" (song called "Red Tree of Blood".) The word mud in a similar context was heavily used by the neo-nazi Tom Metzger. Impaled Nazarene continuing their embarrassing clownery after decades of racism and sexism (songs "The Burning of Provinciestraat" and "Reflect on This", for example).

Writing lyrics about killing minorities or beating up women is not "provocation" just like having a swastika tattoo is not merely "controversial."

We live in an age of buzzwords and lazy research. Overused words like accusation and politics are there to lessen the importance of anti-fascism and make language softer.

We also live in a world where money talks and bullshit walks. So many of the smaller record labels are owned by neo-nazis who want to extend their influence. The neo-nazification of Finnish black metal has been going on for years. Most of the older musicians still rely on the reputation they had in the 1990s.

Even if you think that metal will never be a white power movement, you still have to actively work in order to prevent that from happening. If you don't have the guts to stand up against a herd of nazi hipsters, you deserve to be called a wimp.

Der Sturm and Davidia Mortizoa

Der Sturm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIJpjMB4L4

Fornax Ferrea: Davidia Mortizoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1I3Gzt3h0

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com - https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com

Top 20 tinted films

 

These weren't included in the top 50 black-and-white films.

1916 Intolerance
1919 Madame Dubarry
1919 The Doll
1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 The Golem
1920 Leaves from Satan's Book
1921 The Haunted Castle
1921 The Phantom Carriage
1921 Destiny
1922 Häxan
1922 Nosferatu
1922 Phantom
1922 Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1924 Waxworks
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1925/1929 The Phantom of the Opera
1927 The Cat and the Canary
1927 The Lodger

Second track from Davidia Mortizoa

We Follow to the End

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlBsNjE1iyE

Säteitä - Rays

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 439.

Second track from Der Sturm

Mist and Dust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UFZYV_aGKw

Fornax Ferrea - Thanatolith

 

Thanatolith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qHc_QXqy8

Davidia Mortizoa is the second album in the death metal trilogy by Fornax Ferrea and the 38th by Rinta-Perälä.

Out February 1, 2025.
https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com

Ristikatse - Cross Gaze

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 438.

David Lynch 1946-2025

 

New classical music centering around expressionism

Fuming Anguish of Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liFm5gb62g

Der Sturm is the 37th album by Rinta-Perälä. It was named after a German modern art publication established in 1910.

Written between February and April 2023. Recorded and programmed in Silence & Desolation Studio, September-October 2024.

The album will be out February 1, 2025.

The title Fuming Anguish of Earth is a quote from Ludwig Meidner, painter of Apocalyptic Landscape, 1913.

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

27. helmikuuta - February 27

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 437.

Information about Fornax Ferrea

Endtime Bestiaries was originally going to be classical and orchestral. I had already written a different stripped-down orchestral work in early 2023. One of the demos was called "Callow Graves Take In." Every time I imagined Endtime Bestiaries, I thought it should be metal instead. The other project had enough material without that one demo, so it became the first Fornax Ferrea song. I drew the logo in September 2023.

80s death metal was on my mind for a long time, and I had usually rejected the idea of recording something myself. This was also true with my black metal projects, Vengeful Semblance and Grallochery. When I contemplate a project continuously, I always have something to say. It's like a boiling point.

Why am I simultaneously making art music and metal albums? Because I love the ideas and the sounds of different instruments. I can imagine and feel the potential intensely. In order to do that, you have to be open-minded. I don't need anyone's permission to do these things.

The short-sighted "explosion" we have with death metal these days is not as exciting as the influential period in the 1980s. The key refrain during those times was "here's a tape." The bands were doing interesting things but they didn't always have an audience or the blessing from a record label. They weren't doing it in order to fit in.

Labels should never run the show when it comes to creativity. It's the same with reviews. The promotion and hype machine doesn't dictate your interests.

I always see tons of stupid thumbnails online and I don't click on most of them. The worst ones are for playlists filled with generated elevator music. They clearly don't care about the origins of any genre. With Fornax Ferrea I'm still making my own music while respectfully celebrating four decades of death metal.

Ignoring or making fun of the genre's origins is beyond disgusting and stupid. Some of those opportunistic bands even have the nerve to call themselves underground. Being independent or underground is not about saying words. You always have to prove it. They should all get a lower back tattoo that says "don't shit where you eat."

Finnish death metal was not an influence. We had our first bands around 1988 and "proto-death" was not a thing here. I usually don't have a list of influences, but in this case I think it's appropriate to name Slayer, Celtic Frost, Repulsion and Morbid Angel.

The old Celtic Frost was more aggressive. These days I think it's actually more radical to be influenced by something like that, instead of the typical formula that says you're supposed to sound like a Triptykon ripoff.

Old-school can be surprising. In a world filled with random opinions, confused fledgling smart-asses and noxious "influencers", Fornax Ferrea is weirdly a breath of fresh air.

Endtime Bestiaries

https://fornaxferrea.bandcamp.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keVWs8-ZtEU

1. At the Blood God's Mercy
2. Callow Graves Take In
3. Summons of the Red-Blooded Nucleus
4. Iron Ore Irises
5. Bedeviled Out of This World
6. Spike Cross Transfixion
7. Carnatical Powers of Recall
8. Travellers of Mortal Tragedy
9. Bestiarial Silence Awaits

Debut album and the 36th by Rinta-Perälä.

Written between 2023 and 2024. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, June 2024.
Music, lyrics, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.