Thalasstorm - Ostrobothnian Metal

1. Final Breath of Fate
2. Uprising
3. Trident Stirs the Sea
4. Creation of Fire
5. Aureole Invincible
6. The Fortunate Far Away
7. Elysium

Written between 2002 and 2025. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, June-July 2025.

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

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

https://thalasstorm.bandcamp.com

Elysium

Second track from Ostrobothnian Metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dntNUjvAO2I

The Thalasstorm story

The main ambition with this project was to create metal that is less dark. Fairly positive-sounding heavy metal with powerful synth arrangements.

The first song I wrote in 2023 was Creation of Fire. The project didn't have a name at that point, but the album title was always the same. Ostrobothnia, or Pohjanmaa, is my home region. I'm originally from South Ostrobothnia and the coat of arms has three ermines on it. The sign I designed has three dragonlike demons instead.

Thalasstorm is a sea storm. The Finnish word for that is uhama, but I decided not to use that. Most of the songs are completely new, but some are examples of the kind of music I made 25 years ago.

I found a bunch of old demos from 2002, both CDs and notes. I barely knew how to burn a CD back then, so the tracks had the maximum amount of clipping and too much bass. It sounded like dogshit inside a cardboard box, but thankfully most of the written notes gave me a head start.

A song called Elysium was one of the last additions to the tracklist and this song based on old material from 2002 wasn't changed that much.

Black Sabbath is my favourite metal band. The first six albums from '70 to '75 are the best followed by Mob Rules. NWOBHM is a related archetype in this case.

Ostrobothnian Metal was also inspired by some soundtracks - Assault on Precinct 13, the 1981 animated Heavy Metal movie and Conan the Barbarian. I was always interested in mythology so that became the guiding light for the frame of reference.

Unlike most modern mythological metal, Thalasstorm was never going to sound like a mixture of Helloween and Hans Zimmer.

For a long time this kind of material seemed too conventional and heroic to me. It's time to cut back on the shadows.

First Thalasstorm track

 

Final Breath of Fate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvdEL6Zvn4Y

The first Thalasstorm album, Ostrobothnian Metal, will be out August 1, 2025.

Todellisuus - Reality

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2025.
Drawing 443.

My last metal project, I swear

 

Thalasstorm is the name of my fourth and final metal project. I wanted to challenge myself and write music that sounds more positive (without being nauseating.)

The specific category is heavy metal, but not power metal with high singing. Even though I'm diversifying, the darker stuff will always be more prominent.

This adventure is once again partially fueled by my disappointment in other people's music. It's possible to write archetypal and hard hitting metal without jumping on a bandwagon or losing the wild energy.

The album will be released later this year.

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