Octoploid shared single & video for 'Beyond The Aeons' opening track 'The Dawns In Nothingness' featuring Mikko Kotamäki • GRIMM Gent

From death metal to prog but also folk: with its wide rage of influences, OCTOPLOID‘s forthcoming debut album “Beyond The Aeons” (due out on July 5, 2024 via Reigning Phoenix Music) takes the listener to its very own world. In anticipation of the offering, the band led by bassist Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine‘s (AMORPHIS, BARREN EARTH, MANNHAI) present a second digital single off the record today. Continuing the list of prestigious guests, Mikko Kotamäki (SWALLOW THE SUN etc.) lends his distinctive vocals to ‘The Dawns In Nothingness,’ the album opening track which opens the gate to “Beyond The Aeons” in the form of fateful peal of bells, cawing craws and acoustic guitar tunes. The eventful song straightly raises the bar with its driving yet dark character, intermitted by a handful of wonderfully psychedelic guitar/keyboard solo parts, for what may be one of the most expected death-prog albums of the year.

Stream/purchase the track:
https://octoploid.rpm.link/dawnsPR

Band leader Laine explains,

“This track is an unlikely marriage between black and death metal, rock and medieval monk chants, rounded up by SWALLOW THE SUN vocalist Mikko Kotamäki. Even though the texts are very personal, the gloomy lyricism is not always to be taken literally. That’s just a part of the classic doom metal ethos in its finest!”

Pre-order the album in the physical format of your choice (CD-digi, eco-friendly / recycled “dusk of vex” marbled vinyl), pre-save it on your favourite DSP or pre-order it digitally to receive ‘The Dawns In Nothingness [feat. Mikko Kotamäki]’ and ‘Human Amoral [feat. Tomi Joutsen]’ instantly now, here: https://octoploid.rpm.link/beyondtheaeonsPR

OCTOPLOID is the solo band of Olli-Pekka Laine (bass, keyboards, backing vocals; AMORPHIS, BARREN EARTH, MANNHAI), and was formed in 2022 what has led to “Beyond The Aeons,” the act’s debut album which is due to be released on July 5, 2024 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM). Combining elements from 90s death/black metal, 70s prog rock and 90s psychedelic rock, their music has its own place on the map. In one phrase, OCTOPLOID‘s sound has been described as “classic death prog.”

Built around Laine, the core band includes four additional musicians: Well seasoned and diverse drummer Mikko Pietinen brings experience from stoner rock (MANNHAI) to Finnish mainstream pop rock (KASMIR etc.), while lead/rhythm guitarist Peter Salonen (THE KINKY THING; a band performing Finnish psych rock legends KINGSTON WALL covers) is a quite new face in the scene. The five-piece is completed by keyboardist Kim Rantala (GIANT ROBOT, ex-AMORPHIS) and vocalist Mikko Kotamäki (SWALLOW THE SUN etc.; live).