NEWS: Beyond The Hate expose the black within!

Featuring a guest vocal appearance by Katri Hiovain-Asikainen of Numento fame, Finnish Melodic Death Metal band Beyond The Hate have offered up another virgin sacrifice in “Black Within” from their upcoming debut album “Darkest Times“. Pencilled in for an 8th March via Inverse Records unveiling, the album also features Jaakko Mäntymaa from Marianas Rest on “In Memoriam” as it follows their well received 2020 EP “Betrayal Of Time” out of the gate. Rumour has it that there is more focus on atmosphere and melancholia on this one with orchestral and choral elements as well as acoustic guitars playing a role…

Guitarist and songwriter Jyrki Karhu comments: “Black Within is one of the last songs written for the album. The process of writing it was quite easy, I wrote it in one day. Sometimes it’s easy to write a song when you have a clear vision and you don’t have to spend weeks or months on it. The song is one of the most atmospheric on the album, even a bit “ballad-like”. Already during the composition phase I knew that I had to have a female vocalist for this song and I had a clear candidate right away; Katri Hiovain-Asikainen from the Numento band. Luckily, Katri agreed immediately, because her beautiful voice took the song to another level. The story of the song is written by our singer Niko. He wrote the lyrics for his own parts of the song and I wrote Katri’s. So far it’s the only song in the band with more than one lyricist. I think we managed to create a good story. The song is beautiful, but the lyrics are dark. It creates a good contrast to the song”

Vocalist Niko Kalinainen adds: “I was lost for a long time with the lyrics of this song, I had the verses and the chorus ready which I sing myself, but I didn’t really know what the acoustic parts would be. Fortunately, Jyrki stepped in at this point and wrote the missing lyrics, respecting the original idea. Katri then did a really great arrangement and a brilliant vocal performance, elevating this song to the level where it had to be made into one of three singles.”