I AM THE NIGHT Release New Single + Video “I Am The Night” – WATCH

Finnish metal outfit I AM THE NIGHT have unveiled the final single leading up to the release of their new album. The track, titled “I Am The Night”, is accompanied by a new music video.

 

The band comments on the video for their new single:

”We had a certain 90’s video in our mind when we gave Jari Heino instructions to create this one. This is his modern take on that classic and the way we wanted it to look. The song itself is a swing of a morning star to one’s head. Aggressive and harsh, but still the melodic aspects can be found. Listen and wander into the night.”

 

Rising from the deep valleys of Kymi in southernmost Finland, I Am The Night is Black Metal rooted in the classic early 90’s tradition, where walls of guitars and synthesizers raise the forces of darkness in a battle against the heavens and burning angels light up the night sky.

 

The band’s debut full-length album, ‘While The Gods Are Sleeping’, will see a May 6th, 2022 release via Svart Records.

I AM THE NIGHT – “I Am The Night” (Official Video)

Brought forth by underground titans of Finnish Metal, Markus Vanhala (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum), Janne Markkanen (ex-Omnium Gatherum), Okko Solanterä (Horizon Ignited), and Waltteri Väyrynen (Paradise Lost, Bodom After Midnight), the band’s origins date back to the dimly lit subterranean rehearsal rooms of the mid-nineties where the fires of Vanhala and Markkanen’s Black Metal zeal were ignited.

 

“Black metal art has been a continuous and serious pursuit in my personal life since my early teenage years”, explains guitarist Vanhala. He continues, “In The Nightside Eclipse, Storm Of The Light’s Bane and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas opened the gate to the dark side for me years ago, as can be heard from the music we make with I Am The Night.”

 

In recent years, I Am The Night rapidly began to gather flesh on its old bones, and in 2020 the spark burst into a full blaze when elder statesmen Vanhala and Markkanen hired younger cohorts Väyrynen and Solanteräto to help bring their morbid visions into reality. Vanhala states, “Our debut record, the result of a yearning for ancient darkness, turned out to be just the time capsule we wanted it to be, far removed from modern metal. I’ve seldom found anything interesting in post-90s Black Metal. We wanted to realize this in the underground way that felt fitting to the music, and chose to work with Svart Records.”

 

“Our songs are stories about the worship of night and the triumph of the powers of darkness. At night, sun to his slumber and shadows all over, the forces of the night rise to the heavens, cast angels out and usher in a new era of individual freedom”, vocalist Solaterä explains, “I Am The Night is a real band, not a project. It is unrestrained creation. A ray of darkness for us in the vacuum created by the pandemic. The

future remains unseen, and all the better for it.”

 

Seldom has an instant classic band and timeless sound reached our ears at Svart Records, but we are certain that there will be hordes of new initiates, prepared to declare I Am The Night their favorite new ray of darkness. Open the gate to your eclipse now

I AM THE NIGHT –

‘While The Gods Are Sleeping’

 

I AM THE NIGHT is:

Vanhala – Guitar, synth (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum)

Markkanen – Bbass (ex-Omnium Gatherum)

Väyrynen – Drums (Paradise Lost, Bodom After Midnight)

Solanterä – Vocals (Horizon Ignited)

 

 

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