NEWS: Saasta emerge from the depths of hell!

Having spent the past six years creating Extreme Metal where strong lyrical expression meets raw energy and nourishing a reputation for an intense stage presence and uncompromising live show, it should come as no surprise that Saasta have unleashed an age restricted music video. The song is titled “The Envy” and is a second from their upcoming album “Cesspool“, a 8th May release via Inverse Records. A portrait in merciless Blackened Death Metal with the subtle nuances of Doom, this one comes with a health warning. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp

The band comment: “In every person’s life there are moments when death’s cold call feels more comforting than the pain of continuing to live. Sometimes the only thing standing in the way of that final passage is cowardice. The Envy is a merciless depiction of the weakest moments in an individual’s life. In those moments, existence feels like nothing more than the maintenance and feeding of a personal, earthly hell. A person sinks into the deepest depths of despair, where hope does not appear as light, but hangs by fragile, fraying threads, always on the verge of breaking.

The Envy expressed in the song is not directed at material possessions or worldly achievements, but at death itself — at total peace and the absence of pain. It is a mindset in which even worms seem freer and more human than a breathing, suffering person. The purpose of The Envy is not to romanticise self-destruction, but to strip it of all glamour and false shine. It is ugly, desolate, and raw. In its world, holiness smells of rot.

Musically, The Envy is both fresh and distinctly original Saasta. Painfully heavy and stripped-down death metal meets black metal riffs that twist familiar icons into distorted forms. The Finnish lyrics add their own harsh character to the song, reinforcing its message in a way that is both beautiful and unsettling.”