Eternal Tears of Sorrow

“Children of the Dark Waters” will be released:

Finland: Wednesday,  27th of May by KHY Suomen Musiikki.

Rest of Europe: Friday, 22nd of May by Massacre Records.

Asia: Wednesday, 24th of June by Marquee / Avalon.

See this page for more details: http://eternaltears.info/www/shop.html

If you happen to be in Oulu, Finland on Saturday, the 9th of May, please join the pre-listening party at PSK Kaupunni.

Tervetuloa ennakkokuuntelemaan Tummien vetten lapsia lauantaina 9.5. PSK Kaupunniin Oulun keskustaan.

Photos by O.W. Kinnunen. For the higher resolution photos, go to the ProPromotion’s web site.

“Children of the Dark Waters” is out in Finland on the 27th of May and in rest of Europe on the 24th of May. The exact Asian release date is still unknown to us but it will be in May as well.

This week, we found out our Internet service provider, RackGlobal, had gone bankrupt in late February. In the end, this was no big surprise for us.. Their billing process and customer service was practically non-existant i.e. we got our domain bills every now and then and seldom got any replies from the company.

The reason for me telling this to you is this: there may be problems in the near future with this website. We’re trying to get our eternaltears.info domain back to ourselves in order to find another service provider and go on with it.

However, in case of a sudden shutdown of this website (which may happen due to the bankruptcy), keep in mind that we also have a MySpace page at myspace.com/etos1.

P.S. The latest piece of news! The album is going to be mastered next Tuesday, on the 14th of April. Seven more weeks until the album comes up!

We’re not the kind of people who love to cling to the past. But this time, we’ll make an exception.

In spring 1994, we started recording a demo tape (or a promo tape, as we called it back then) called “The Seven Goddesses of Frost” that turned out to be the first official EToS demo tape. We had had several projects for a couple of years that included people that were to play in EToS in the near future.. Altti, me, O-P Törrö (1994-1999) and P. Sankala (1997-2008). The first three people were involved with the “Goddesses” tape.

The “T7GoF” demo tape was one of the most important releases by us; on the demo tape, we redefined our style to include even more influences we had in the early 90s. Even though the overall sound and production wasn’t really that good on the tape, it gave us our first radio play on the Finnish radio. Besides, due to the production on the demo tape, we wanted the next demo (“Bard’s Burial”) to be recorded in a real studio. So, next autumn we went to Tico-Tico Studio and that’s where we’ve stayed…

But when is the “official” birthday of EToS? As far as I can remember, we came up with the name on a weekend in early May of ’94. It could have been the second or the third Sunday of May ’94.. We had finished recording the vocal tracks for the demo tape and we knew we had one more thing to do before starting the mixing sessions.. A new name for the band. And that’s what we did.

But well, back to the present day and the near future.. We could say “Per aspera ad astra“, which could be translated to “through hardships to the stars”. The mixing sessions for “CotDW” are about to end today and the album will be mastered next week. The official release dates in different countries are going to vary but as a whole, it will be out between mid-May and the end of May anywhere..

P.S. Here’s something from the past: EToS Biography and the “Making of” blog for “Before the Bleeding Sun”.

You can preorder the forthcoming album”Children of the Dark Waters” from Levykauppa Äx (Record Shop X).

http://www.recordshopx.com/artist/eternal_tears_of_sorrow/children_of_the_dark_waters/

Voit tilata levyn etukäteen Levykauppa Äxästä:

http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/eternal_tears_of_sorrow/children_of_the_dark_waters/

ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW ETSII SOOLOKITARISTIA

Valitettavasti joudumme ilmoittamaan, että soolokitaristimme Risto Ruuth on jättänyt tehtävänsä Eternal Tears of Sorrow’ssa. Tilanne tuli bändille täytenä yllätyksenä, eikä meillä ole tietoa päätökseen johtaneista syistä tai taustoista. Saimme Riston yksipuolisen ilmoituksen irtisanoutumisesta viikko sitten.

Kuluneen viikon aikana olemme tehneet kaikkemme löytääksemme korvaajan, jotta voisimme hoitaa sovitut keikat aiemmin laaditun aikataulun mukaisesti. Valitettavasti se on kuitenkin osoittautunut ylivoimaiseksi tehtäväksi tällä aikataululla, joten tämä tulee vaikuttamaan täten myös sovittuihin keikkoihimme.

Eternal Tears of Sorrow nousee lavalle heti, kun aukko miehistössämme on saatu paikattua. Lisäinformaatiota aiheesta tullaan julkaisemaan lähitulevaisuudessa.

Julkistamme samalla avoimeksi haun soolokitaristin tehtävään bändissämme. Etsimämme kitaristi on monipuolinen, idearikas ja luova. Ennen kaikkea hänen jalat ovat tukevasti maassa, hän on motivoitunut tehtävään ja pystyy hallitsemaan soolokitaristin tontin yhtyeessämme.

Jos olet kiinnostunut tehtävästä, lähetä vapaamuotoinen hakemus, info-paketti ja soittonäytteet audio-/videomuodossa osoitteeseen: eternaltears2009[at]gmail.com

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW TO SEEK SOLO GUITARIST

Unfortunately, we have to announce that our solo guitarist Risto Ruuth has left Eternal Tears of Sorrow. The situation came to us as a total surprise. We have no information on the reasons or the background behind his decision. We received Risto’s a unilateral declaration a week ago.

During the past week, we have done everything possible to find a replacement in time so that we could make it to do the confirmed live dates according to the previously established timetable. Unfortunately, it has proven to be an exceedingly difficult task with this schedule, and thus it will affect the confirmed live dates.

Eternal Tears of Sorrow will get on the stage as soon as the hole in the line-up has been refilled. More information on this topic will be published shortly.

At the same time, we announce  the search for solo guitarist for the band. The guitarist we’re looking for should be diverse, full of ideas and creative. Above all, his feet should be firmly on the solid ground, he should motivated to the task, and should be able to manage the role of the solo guitarist in our band.

If you are interested in this mission, send free-form application, info-packet and the call audio samples or video form, to: eternaltears2009[at]gmail.com

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