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Finnish post//folk/doom metallers Unshine have released a brand new video for the track "Visionary's Last Breath". The track is taken from their new album entitled Astrala, which will be out on 19th January in Europe and on 9th February in North America through Rockshots Records.
Inspired by artists as diverse as Enslaved, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Tangerine Dream and Iron Maiden, Unshine is described as "Finnish druid and folk metal" by five friends whom all were raised in the countryside villages of Western Finland. The album is inspired by the invisible side of the Earth. The first five album songs address the manifestations of Astrala and the last five songs describe travels to Astrala. The album has a touch of Nordic melancholy written all over it and it includes music meant to create landscapes and themes from folk stories, mythology and nature religions, but also to present personal views describing the spiritual meaning of a forest as a cultural concept. The binding theme here is forest, although this is not a theme album.
As guitarist Harri Hautala says proudly: "Unshine has always been a band without the traditional role models. For us, the most important thing in a song is the melody. Sounds and rhythms create the overall atmosphere, but the melody makes the whole ancient story in it come to life.”
Nature is the true influence on Unshine’s music. Their alpha and omega. Their beginning and end. The modern world may have almost forgotten the ancient ways, but Unshine keep them alive in words and music. Creating songs to reunite the old bonds between the dolmen gods and digitised mankind. Nature is not our enemy, it’s our physical and especially spiritual home. Exploring these values in their new album Astrala, Unshine unleash their new video "Visionary's Last Breath".
The band comments: "On this track, we tell the story of a healer preparing for the journey to Astrala and this requires purification of soul and body. It is fascinating to think that a modern human could also apply these same methods in most of the everyday activities. If it has worked for thousands of years, why did we forget these ways? This quite heavy song is played in low tuning in order to create the right atmosphere." Watch video for "Visionary's Last Breath" in the player. Link
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