Advent of Nihilism

Some things would be better not born
And there are words wiser left unsaid
“Not all shivering is due to cold”
He said calmly, dead in the eyes

You cannot strip a mindless of his will
“Death created time to grow the things it would kill”
We all know it´s true but please
Whisper to me, say it ain’t so

We are a river
That wants to reach the end
Soothing lullaby to silence
The voice that tells you to act

Pitiful race of a day
Children of accidents and sorrow
We get to drown in the stream
And watch as nothing taints all

Rambling goes on as the shadows grow tall
And values are just found on the market
The surface stripped, nothing to reflect
Suddenly everything lacks meaning

Bury your morals and descent
Deeper, the current will show you the end
To bring light into nothing ain’t easy
So don’t hold your breath

We are a river
That wants to reach the end
Soothing lullaby to silence
The voice that tells you to act

Pitiful race of a day
Children of accidents and sorrow
We get to drown in the stream
And watch as nothing taints all

We are the night sky without stars

Fata Morgana

You were really never here
And I was not there for you
This cold between us
Is something we could never remove

Pinned to the ground
Stuck in soil, frozen where we stand
The distance obscured
Like through twisted glass

Not all you see is real
Not all you think you know is true
The ghosts between us distort the signal
Fata Morgana

And nothing would ever please me
As to be there for you
Nothing would ever heal me
But to watch the world burn down with you

Nothing would ever please me
As to be there for you
Nothing would ever heal me
But to watch the world burn down with you

But this is something
We can’t remove
Nothing we got to choose
It is how it is
Fata Morgana

You were really never here
I was not there for you
These ghosts linking us together
Illusion of vision
Fata Morgana

The Weight

Come and hear the thunder
Sounds from the final shore
Join the march to the edge
A path laced with regret

Beaten under the weight
But for once our minds will not bend
Never started this journey
By gods we will be the ones to make it end

Can you feel the thunder
Can you feel the end

See King Nothing on a crusade
Ruler of an empire of ruins
Pilgrim on a pale horse
Imposter left, imposter left an empty throne

Erase the future
To dwell in the past
Wanderers lost in wasteland
With dreams cut down to size

This weight on our shoulders
Designed to crush, to make us fall

This weight on our shoulders
Designed to crush, designed to make us fall

Will you help me get through this
As I see no other way
Please guide me through this maze
It all has been too hard

Our steps through the snow
Feel like dancing on broken glass
Will you help me get through this
For it all has been too long and hard

Can you hear the thunder
Can you feel the end

Come and hear the thunder
Come and feel the end

Sacrificial

“We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody.”

Down into the white
Let the weight drag you in
Sweet void calling my name
For you, only for you
And only for you

Now lay still
We came a long damned way
To bury it all
Veiled in frost
How I long to hear
The sound of wind as I take
My final step
Lay still

We came a long damned way
To bury it all
Veiled in frost
How I long to feel
The slowing beat as I draw
My final breath

Into white
I give myself to you

Pointless Tale

From the filth of withered ground
There once grew a thorn
Aiming past colorless blanket 
For a sky drained of life

Swarth of soil escaped 
Farther and farther, towards oceans of grey
No matter how high it pushed
Warmth could not be found

Pray this night will never end
Black is a heaven sent
For we are lost without the dark
Carved of misery, corrupt from the start

Hope the light to never shine
For minds so unkind
We are only worth the dark
No more than the dark

A swing of a sickle
Cut down in a single stroke
You belong to the shadows
For a moment all seemed to clear

This life is sound and fury 
Tale that fails to hold a meaning
And hope for better days
Is a weak match for the void that fills us all


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South of Vostok

Siellä missä aikaa ei ole
Ja paikka on menettänyt merkityksensä
Tuuli sulki korvani
Kylmä kantoi kauas ajatukseni
Äärettömään mereen katoava jääkenttä
Pakkasen kasvoille tiivistämä sumu

Täällä aika katosi
Ja sijaintini poistettiin kartalta
Kun kaikki loppui
Minä olin täällä
 
We roam to reach
The most desolate shore
Where frost covers our eyes
‘n Wind will hide our scream
 
Here nothing ever was
Everything comes to die
Where no one can ever see
We set ourselves on
 
Fire here we stand and burn
Higher feed the flames to the frost
Fire we are fuel for the dark
Maybe someone else will see
Our tracks in the snow
 
Fire here we stand and burn
Higher feed the flames to the frost
Fire we are fuel for the dark
Maybe someone else will find
Tracks lost in the snow
 
These distorted visions
Witnessed by chosen few
Known by indifferent all
Cared by none
 
Distorted visions
Witnessed by chosen few
Known by indifferent all
Cared by absolutely none


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Glow From the Edge

Shadows of men drifting on fumes
Driven by the glow that gave them birth
Containers for thoughts
Something that once got lost torn away of its soul

Nothing personal ever
Gave tribute to what they are and here I am
Damned to witness it all
Damned to watch us all

Fall

Deceived by the glow of the edge
To gaze into the ceaseless
End to a futile quest
To fill the hollow inside with

Nothing
It never ends

Stereotypes thrown over the edge
Under unforgiving cold
I could swear I heard someone laugh
As we drove ourselves through the black

I wish nothing more
Than the power to take it all back
I never desired anything as much
As to have the strength to change the direction

I wish I could explain just how it feels
To know what I know now, to see what I have to see now
And to do it all again and again
Powerless, part of an all consuming cycle
in the end we all

Fall


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Fata Morgana out March 12!

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Melodic Death/Doom Unit MARIANAS REST to release new album FATA MORGANA on March 12!

First Single & Official Video “Glow From The Edge”, Out Now!

Sophomore album Ruins reissued on Vinyl for the first time – Coming March 12!

Emerging from the Finnish coastal town of Kotka, melodic death/doom metal strikers MARIANAS REST will unleash their third studio album, Fata Morgana, on March 12, 2021 via Napalm Records. In anticipation, they have just unveiled the first single from the album, entitled “Glow From The Edge”, along with a moving official video.

The Finns – featuring Jaakko Mäntymaa on vocals and Omnium Gatherum’s Aapo Koivisto on keys – showcase a true virtuosity of heavy riffs, hypnotizing soundscapes and impetuous tempo-changes on their new work of art. Fata Morgana combines intense melodic death metal spiced with significant doom elements and breathes an overall melancholic theme with every note, which the first output, “Glow From The Edge”, is proof of.

Atmospheric guitar tones set the stage for this gloomy melodic death and doom metal offering. Spoken words permeate the listener’s brain, soon erupting in harsh and intense growling while the dreamlike backing vocals of guest musician Lindsay Matheson/Schoolcraft are carried along with sophisticated melodies.

Fata Morgana marks the final chapter of a trilogy that began when MARIANAS REST released their first full-length, 2016’s Horror Vacui, followed by the critically acclaimed full-length Ruins (2019). The series encompasses themes of isolation, eventual mental collapse and emergence from that woeful state, respectively – however, the band invites fans to experience the concept from their own perspectives.

The upcoming eight-song epos delivers atmospheric melodies that are as endless and fascinating as the overwhelming beauty of Finnish nature, which tracks like the expressive “The Weight” or authentic “Pointless Tale” are evidence of. Topped by guest appearances of Timo Virkkala, who shares his awesome cello magic, and the bewitching backing vocals of Lindsay Matheson/Schoolcraft (ex-Cradle of Filth), MARIANAS REST take their creative output to the next level and make Fata Morgana a must-have for fans of bands like Insomnium, Kaunis Kuolematon, Vorna and My Dying Bride.

This melodic melancholy is produced by Teemu Aalto (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum) and MARIANAS REST, recorded and mixed by Teemu Aalto at Teemu Aalto Music Productions and mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers West who received a Grammy nomination with Candlemass feat. Tony Iommi for Best Metal Performance.

Fata Morgana Tracklist:

  1. Sacrificial

  2. Glow From the Edge

  3. Pointless Tale

  4. The Weight

  5. Horrokseen

  6. Fata Morgana

  7. Advent of Nihilism

  8. South of Vostok

Fata Morgana will be available in the following formats:

  • 2LP Gatefold Marbled Black/White

  • 2LP Gatefold Black

  • CD Digipack

  • Digital Album

As a special bonus, MARIANAS REST will release a limited edition reissue of their aforementioned second studio album, Ruins, on vinyl for the first time ever on March 12, 2021 via Napalm Records.

Unleashed back in April 2019, the Finns’ full-length tells the story of how a mind slowly crumbles, about introversion, putting up mental walls and eventually disappearing inside your own head.

Ruins is available as a 2LP Gatefold Marbled Black/White vinyl (limited to 300 copies), this is a must have for fans of this somber manifest of heavy riffs and grieving melodies!

MARIANAS REST are:

Jaakko Mäntymaa – vocals
Aapo Koivisto – keys
Nico Mänttäri – guitar
Harri Sunila – guitar
Niko Lindman – bass
Nico Heininen – drums

Pre-Order your copy of Fata Morgana or/and Ruins:
https://smarturl.it/MR-FataMorgana/

https://marianasrest.bandcamp.com/
https://www.marianasrest.com/

Prepare yourselves, get ready to Die. 💀

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“Welcome to the Napalm family!”

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Photo: Jari Heino

Now it is finally official! We have inked a deal with the mighty Napalm Records! Read the whole press release here: 

Finnish melodic death metal strikers MARIANAS REST have officially signed a worldwide contract with Napalm Records!

Hailing from the coastal town of Kotka, MARIANAS REST pool the full extent of their musical expertise to raise their gloomy symbiosis of melancholic melodic death metal spiced with significant doom elements to the next level. Founded in 2013, MARIANAS REST released their first full-length, Horror Vacui, back in 2016, followed by the critically acclaimed long player Ruins (2019). With their further creative output, the Finns – with Jaakko Mäntymaa on vocals and Omnium Gatherum‘s Aapo Koivisto on keys – have already proven their ability to master the tightrope act between despair and darkness along with a spark of hope. The six-piece is currently working on a new studio album. More to be announced soon…

MARIANAS REST state: 
“It is amazing to get to be a part of such a fine label. We want to leave our mark in a long line of tradition. Can’t wait to be working together and to let you all hear what we have been cooking up!” 
– Jaakko Mäntymaa, Vocalist

”For years we have been doing our best to perfect our vision of what Marianas Rest should and will be. Now with great relief we can say that we have found a partner in Napalm Records to truly fulfill this vision.” 
– Aapo Koivisto, Keyboardist

Napalm Records on the signing: “Finland´s MARIANAS REST is one of the most exhilarating bands in Melodic Death Metal, and delivered a brilliant album in 2019, entitled “Ruins”. The new album will be a mandatory purchase for fans of Insomnium, Ghost Brigade and Swallow the Sun. Welcome to the Napalm family!“

See what could’ve been built
Of all of our hate
All that could’ve been forged
With the flame 
That drew our shades
On the corners of your walls