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.

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.