INTERVIEW: Markus from Kuolemanlaakso on Comebacks and Gloomy Doom – Death Metal



We chatted with Markus of Finland’s long-running Doom band Kuolemanlaakso! Featuring Mikko of Swallow The Sun – the band just released their first new album in 8 years, Kuusumu (Svart Records). Markus was great and shared a lot of insights about the new album, and the band. Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu


Considering that music, and life in general, has become increasingly less local and much more globally accessible and transferable, it is powerful and interesting that there is something intrinsically locked to a place about certain bands and musical styles. And, accepting their protagonists were forging recorded Metal identities since 2000 when there was more of some semblance of “local” and “scene”, it is fair to say that Kuolemanlaakso are undeniably and gloriously Finnish, with national metal musical traits from the land of the thousand lakes littered in abundance throughout their third album, Kuusumu (Svart Records).

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