NEWS: Hanging Garden fly with the Ravens!

Ironically “To Outlive the Nine Ravens” is the first of nine new cuts from a ninth studio album in “Isle of Bliss” by Hanging Garden. Set to see the cold light of day on the 20th March via Agonia Records, the affair was recorded in various studios in southern Finland before being mixed and mastered by none other than the legendary Jaime Gomez Arellano (Opeth, Moonspell, Ghost). The album’s themes revolve around the spiritual aspects of life, death and the liminality in between. The landscapes shift from the introspection of one’s core self, travelling past dense forests and deathless isles – all the way to the vast and distant infinities of the dying stars and the vast and eternal voids spun between. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

The band comment: “This time we decided to take a more conscious step towards a more bare-bones composition on the new songs, supporting the perhaps darker and maybe even more ferocious side of our music. We happened to meet with Gomez during a live show of ours a few summers back, and he was an obvious choice for the sound we had in mind. And as we see it, he really delivered. To complement the rawer sound, we also decided to make more use of Riikka’s capability to scream – a stark contrast to her aetheric cleans – and this can be witnessed in the death metal duets between her and Toni that can be found a-plenty along the tracks.”