Hootie & the Blowfish + Eurodance = the new Amorphis

 

I just experienced one of the most depressing low points in 2025 music.

Fans of the older material already know that this band's downfall started a long time ago. "I should have seen it coming" is a line from their song Wrong Direction.

Tales from the Thousand Lakes is one of the best albums from the 1990s. Who knew that one day they would debase themselves with some of the worst 90s influences.

I listened to a song called Light and Shadow. The song played as an ad. That was already horrifying. I thought "they're still using a term like metal, how bad can it be?" It was so abhorrent they couldn't even save it with superficial references to the old stuff.

I hope people really learn something from this monstrosity. You can't just use the word change as a justification. Things can change for the worse, and they have.

From this point forward I'm going to be calling this band Hootie & the Amorphis.

Boreal Chimeritales

1. Arboretum
2. Pale Inner Chamberlight
3. The River of Life
4. The Isle of the Dead
5. Alone in Bonfire Night
6. Vision

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/boreal-chimeritales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKH1gqLrkSI

Rauha - Peace

 

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 442.

Mainstream perfume commercials

 

During recent years we have learned just how disgustingly stupid and narrow-minded the mainstream really is.

Apparently any kind of "acclaimed" work of "genius" is supposed to look like a perfume commercial. I guess in the case of Behemoth it's shit perfume. And in the case of Robert Eggers it's rotten eggs.

The profitable elite wants you to be a brainwashed disciple. These people sound like members of Heaven's Gate - the cult that committed mass suicide so that they could catch a comet while wearing Nikes.

The major record labels only want marketable muppets. Most of these bands sound like Hootie and the Blowfish. You can also thank Monetary Skyline for bringing back Hanson.

Most Youtube channels suck donkeyballs. I've been calling the site Donkeyball Central for a while now. That place is filled with idiots trying to please a worthless algorithm. You're supposed to do these things like your life depends on it, not your livelihood.

I don't give these idiots anything anymore - no views, no clicks. I don't buy their merch and I won't subscribe to their bullshit.

Before you say that I'm "bitter", please read everything written above one more time. And this time really think about it. The mainstream is worthless. As a serious artist, you simply can't play the same game they're playing. Some people think mainstream acceptance is always the ultimate prize no matter how stupid that system is. Why would I want to be part of it?

The real underground is creative and open-minded. If you're truly a creative person, apparently the established morons think you're living in a sewer.

It's time to say good-bye to conventional opportunists and commercial desperation. Enjoy your idiocracy.

The Isle of the Dead

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHF6Z6uqYVc

Second track from Boreal Chimeritales, out June 1, 2025.

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

Painting by Arnold Böcklin, 1880.

New classical music honouring Symbolist art

 

Vision (Waiting for Dawn), Hugo Simberg 1895

Arboretum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEejhv3XJAA

Boreal Chimeritales is the 41st album by Rinta-Perälä.

Out June 1, 2025.

Arboretum in Vaasa, Finland.

Les Diaboliques 70th Anniversary Theme Cover

Les Diaboliques (1955) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.

Music composed by Georges Van Parys,
arranged by Rinta-Perälä.

Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, April 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNpqqk7XPU

Päästö - Emission

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 441.

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.