NEWS: Infirmum have tales of arson to tell?

Following the departure of original vocalist Anna Rose in 2023 it seemed as if the end was approaching for Finnish Symphonic Doom Metal collective Infirmum. However Brazilian singer Sabine Blodwin formerly of Moonwitch, Draconian Opera and Pettalom took up the challenge and on 27th September new album “From The Depths I Cried” will be released via Inverse Records. Blodwin is of course joined by Taka Eliel (Sanctuary of Hate) – Vocalist and Bassist, Erna Siikavirta (formerly in Lordi, Children of Bodom as session keyboardist, Sinergy as session keyboardist, Arthemesia and Deathlike Silence) – Keyboardist, Joonas Siikavirta (Begrim) – Guitarist, Timo Solonen (Grain of Pain) – Guitarist, Hanna-Leena “Hanska” (Mourning Wood) – Drummer, and Elya – Cellist for the record with “Burn” the first single. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

Vocalist Sabine Blodwin: “Burn is about everything that is controversial and burns inside the human soul, what we feel in secret, what people try to hide or extinguish to fit into society. In ‘Burn,’ while the male part exposes these feelings and unique visions of the world around, the female part represents the embracing of all these demons, the darkness as part of the human being, and this dark flame grows until it finally becomes one with the individual.”

Guitarist Timo Solonen: ”Burn was fun to compose. Wanted to compose a bit faster song and I was in right mood so this turned out to be really good. It is always fantastic to notice how song evolves after I have sent just my guitar tracks and everyone begin to create their parts. Sometimes I delete some guitar leads so other instruments have more space. I am very happy with the results!”

Bassist Taka Eliel: ”Burn was me trying to be more brutal than on other songs, very death metal lyrics”

Drummer Hanna-Leena Lassila: ”When I first started to work on the drum parts for Burn, the demo had only Timo’s guitar tracks. But I could immediately hear that this song will be more aggressive and it needs to have a sense of danger. That’s what I aimed for with my drumming: danger alerting accents, tickling our primitive lizard brain with a sense of something bad looming around the corner, short machine gun like bursts of rhythm in kick drums etc. But also I wanted to keep our signature “beauty and the beast” dynamic present in the song, so I made some parts to have a more “flowy” feel for a nice contrast.”