1. Earthless
2. Dregs of the Teeth
3. Soundlessly Disunited
4. Spoken Fear
5. Your Angels to the Bone
6. Betrayal Is Worth a Thousand Words
7. Surresilience
8. Until Only Her Voice Rippled
Out January 1, 2022.
Final opus in the Grey Trilogy (the final Vengeful Semblance trilogy).
Black Classical from Finland.
1. Mesmeresonance
2. The Great Cloud-Built
3. Charfall
4. Answers to the Diatribe Virus
5. From Past Universes
6. Shriekborn
7. Anti-Inhabitant
8. Gabbro
Fathom the Land Symbolic is the 8th Vengeful Semblance album
and the 16th album by Finnish classical composer Rinta-Perälä.
Out January 1, 2022.
Second opus in the Grey Trilogy (the final trilogy).
Black and White trilogies:
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/
I first saw Dario Argento's Suspiria in 2000, when I was 15. Before that I loved horror films, reading about them and listening to the soundtracks. Suspiria was one of those creative experiences I was truly looking for. It was closer to what I had imagined in my fantasies.
You have to feel films like Suspiria. That is the most important thing.
Powerful images, amazing soundtrack, incredible atmosphere. You can't just write it down. There is something in the air.
Talking about the Berlin Wall sounds important, but it doesn't necessarily feel interesting. It doesn't make the film deeper or more important.
Let's say you're looking at a painting, and it's German expressionism with things from the First World War. The painting's full effect exists because of the way it feels, not just because of those references.
Films like Suspiria will always piss people off. The best 70s filmmakers were truly taking risks. They didn't have the safety net of expectations we have now. What they had was a playground for imagination.
Vengeful Semblance: Book of the Lost
1. Human Metaphor
2. Spirits Dwell Upon the Power
3. Obscuring the Free-Flowing
4. Protoquietus
5. You Cannot Even Find the Understanding
6. Imaginegation
7. The Hunter Under Manifest Skin
8. Sumer Is Icumen In
The 7th Vengeful Semblance album.
"Sumer Is Icumen In" is traditional arranged by Rinta-Perälä.
First opus in the Grey Trilogy.
Out January 1, 2022.
Black and White trilogies:
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/
Q: Do you think information online destroys the mystique surrounding the artist?
A: First of all, put that mystique in your work. If you can't do that, you are useless. It depends on what that shared information is.
I don't think I've revealed too much.
You're either an interesting person or someone who isn't. Those are your options. I understand artists who don't want to say too much, but I can't imagine my favourite artists never doing interviews.
Q: You recorded 8 albums between 2019 and 2020. Are you making music right now?
A: I've been writing my 15th album for 6 months and it will be recorded in April 2021. Release date is probably in 2022. This album includes my first cover song.
I've been active since 2000. 12 years of demos and after that studio albums. My first album was finished after I dropped out of university. Usually my process is a mixture of rewriting and writing from scratch. 5 albums in a year is the maximum number. 2020 was crazy.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, September - November 2020.
Shadows Over Sereningia animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lZal3KeSTI
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/incubella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89EpEppCNAw
Q: Why only black and white?
A: Black and white is about shapes. Before developing my wax drawing technique, I experimented with pencils and markers.
My interest in black and white was reinforced by the following:
1990s photocopied VHS catalogues with banned horror films
Books about horror films
Gustave Dore's illustrations for Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost
Black-and-white photography by Matti A. Pitkänen
Films such as Night of the Living Dead and Eraserhead
German expressionism
Q: Is now a great time to be an artist?
A: Yes, if you want to create something that stands out. The world is absolutely bursting with homogenous claptrap.
The problem is that people want simple answers now. They want the safety of fanaticism and mainstream obsessions.
The mainstream has always been obsessed with the latest, the most popular, the surface, strict categories and pleasing a target audience.
I have never cared about target audiences. My job is to look around. What's there and what's not there. Sanity and curiosity go hand in hand.
