Format Details: Lp
Release Date: 27 March 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430065582465
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Doom Metal
Release Date: 03 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430065582472
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Doom Metal
Description
Although a brand-new name, Hallatar features among its ranks Swallow the Sun and Trees of Eternity guitarist Juha Raivio, Amorphis vocalist Tomi Joutsen, and former HIM drummer Gas Lipstick. In fact, one could see Hallatar as an extension of Trees of Eternity, whose massively acclaimed debut for Svart, Hour of the Nightingale, served as the swansong of vocalist Aleah Starbridge.
Juha Raivio explains the genesis of Hallatar: "After the death of my beloved and my life partner Aleah Starbridge on April 18th a year ago, I have been gathering writings, lyrics, and the poems of Aleah to keep them safe and close to my heart. About one month after the world came down on the blackest day of my life, I knew I needed to pick up the guitar and try to create something or I would be truly destroyed. And something did arrive out of the darkness, and I wrote the music for the Hallatar album in a week's time. I don't have much memory of this week, not a memory of a single day of writing the music. But all I remember when going into this abyss of the writing process was a promise to myself that whatever music would come out, I would not touch or change anything of it afterwards. What mattered was that the music would stay forever as an absolute truth of those moments as they came out. I asked my good friends - and amazing musicians - Tomi Joutsen and Gas Lipstick if they would want to record this music with me, and both of them said yes without even hearing a note of it. I am forever grateful to both of them for sharing this road with me; even the weight of the process has not been easy to carry, or will be."
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Necropsy
Pestigore
Callisto
The Gates of Slumber
Nausea
The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13
The 69 Eyes
Michael Cashmore
Epic Down
Dionize
The Dead Flowers Graves
Monolithe
Epitaph
The Gates of Slumber
Dawnrider
Lake of Tears
