The Withering saga began in the fall of 1999. Raimo and I had an idea about a band, and we started looking for a guitarist to complete the line-up. We wanted to start a band, which has majestic Finnish melodies, but at the same time, uncompromisingly brutal. With Mika's joining, we became a complete, focused unit. We played a lot of covers from bands like Amorphis, Paradise Lost and Sentenced starting out, and those groups eventually became our major influences, once we started to write our own material.
Our first demo, The Signs Of Betrayal was recorded in January of 2001. These recording sessions were basically used for training us to work in studio conditions. A year later, we entered the Tico-Tico studio with Ahti Kortelainen, and we recorded our second demo, "Justification for Unavoidable", which really started to sound like the music we were striving to produce.
As far as the Gospel of Madness is concerned, I honestly think that it truly represents Withering at it's current full potential. We put our souls into this in order to create an album which would bring back the early 90s melodic death metal vibes, while looking to the future, and are within ourselves satisfied with the result. After recording our two previous demos with a mixture of clean/growling vocal styles, with this release, we decided to focus on the more aggressive aspects of our music. This new focus on aggression prompted us to write songs geared more for death vocals than melodic ones.
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There once was a time in the land where the sun was worshiped as god and its embrace with the moon made the earth hold its breath as time stood still in silence, and at that hour the smothered sun shall cloak the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight giving birth to the Element Of Eclipse.
Cheers my friend. Just passing to wish you a great day. Sharing a cold one with your friends is some of the most fun you can have with you pants on !!! "Fear no beer" and always, Rock Hard... Timo kaarkoski - Temple of Sin
KATAKLYSM EUROPEAN HEADLINING TOUR 2010 w/ BELPHEGOR, DARKEST HOUR, SUICIDAL ANGELS, RESISTANCE
7 Jan 2010 Batschkapp Frankfurt 8 Jan 2010 Roxy Saarbrücken 9 Jan 2010 Atak Enschede 10 Jan 2010 Biebob Vosselaar 11 Jan 2010 Academy Islington London 12 Jan 2010 La Locomotive Paris 13 Jan 2010 Live Music Hall Cologne 14 Jan 2010 Backstage Munich 15 Jan 2010 Arena Vienna 16 Jan 2010 Posthof Linz 17 Jan 2010 MOR Cafe Zlin 18 Jan 2010 TBA Ljubljana 19 Jan 2010 Estragon Bologna 20 Jan 2010 Matrix Bochum 21 Jan 2010 Z7 Pratteln 22 Jan 2010 LKA Longhorn Stuttgart 23 Jan 2010 Hellraiser Leipzig 24 Jan 2010 Postbahnhof Berlin 25 Jan 2010 Markthalle Hamburg Jan 26 2010 Brew House Gothenburg Jan 27 2010 Virus Örebro Jan 28 2010 The Rock Copenhagen Jan 29 2010 Musikzentrum Hannover Jan 30 2010 Godset Kolding Jan 31 2010 Melkweg Amsterdam Feb 1 2010 O2 Academy 2 Birmingham Feb 2 2010 Ivory Blacks Glasgow Feb 3 2010 Moho Live Manchester Feb 4 2010 Bierkeller Bristol Feb 5 2010 Sub89 Reading Feb 6 2010 Rios Leeds Feb 7 2010 Central Station Wrexham
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Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil. Just passing by to wish you a great week. Temple of Sin is currently doing pre-production for the second cd which should be recorded later this year and looking for shows in every corner of the world. Remember that you can still download the first cd for free from:
Available from Ibex Moon Records: DREAMING DEAD - "Within One" CD HOD - "Serpent" CD RAPE PILLAGE & BURN - "Songs Of Death, Songs Of Hell" MCD
Coming soon on Ibex Moon Records.
THORNAFIRE - "Vorex Deconstrucción" CD In stores 7/21/2009 GOREAPHOBIA - "Mortal Repulsion" CD In Stores 8/18/2009 ASPHYX - "Death...The Brutal Way" CD In Stores 8/18/2009
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