NEWS: Blackment escape the dark and face oblivion!

9th September might seem like a fairly long away away but that’s the date that Hyvinkää Finland six piece Blackment have inked a deal in blood with Inverse Records to release their debut album “Plains of Oblivion“. Some six years in the making, it the first single “Maw of the Dread” was actually written in 2016 shortly after the release of their debut EP “In The Dark“.

Guitarist Allan Välimaa explains: “Maw of the Dread is an energetic and heavy song that starts like a thunder. We’ve played this track on our rehearsal room since summer 2016 so this is one of our oldest tracks on the album. The structure of the song is still pretty much the same as back then, except for a couple of changes along the way. It’s about people trying to manage things taking the easy way, usually with someone else’s expense. Writing lyrics is kind of a way to cheer myself up and most of the subjects has been created by my own challenges and mistakes in life. So basically, it’s also me looking myself in the mirror, even to this day”