NEWS: Beyond The Hate scan the horizon for the lighthouse…

Continuing the Tsunami sized wave of announcements for 2024 crashing against the shores of Skull Island are Finnish Melodic Death Metal band Beyond The Hate who have announced the arrival of their debut album “Darkest Times” for 8th March via Inverse Records. Grown from a seed planted in 2016, the band reached the final of the Emergenza Finland band competition in both 2018 and 2019 before unveiling debut EP “Betrayal Of Time” in 2020. More recently the five piece participated in last years Tuska-Torstai competition, reaching the semi-finals and with their album have crafted twelve songs with guest vocals from Katri Hiovain-Asikainen from Numento on “Black Within” and Jaakko Mäntymaa from Marianas Rest on “In Memoriam“. That news is accompanied by first single “The Lighthouse” in lyric video form and classically dark artwork…

Guitarist Kimmo Perälehto states: “In the pre-production and early stages of the album, we wanted something a little different, so we ended up writing the song in 3/4 time signature. At the same time we combined the song our trademark tremolo saw picking alongside a slower pedal stroke – the result was what we felt was the perfect song”

Bass player Mikko Monto adds: “As for the chorus, the song is one of the fastest played on the upcoming album, with the slower interludes bringing a nice moody lift to the song. Symbolically and metaphorically, the lighthouses stand in their lofty solitude and soar towards the sky, taking on the storms of the seas and leading travellers safely to their destination. This time, however, the listener is left to ponder the darknesses of the story.”

Vocalist Niko Kalinainen concludes: “Lighthouses usually provide shelter for sailors and guide them past the reefs, this lighthouse is something quite different. It lures its prey towards its inevitable end, like a flame to a moth. This monument of death swallows up all light in its path and steers towards destruction – let those who can still be saved!”