Eternal Tears of Sorrow

Hello guys & gals!

The summer’s here. We have been rehearsing with our new guitarist, Mika Lammassaari, for 2½ months now and things are going very smoothly. We still have no official live show dates (as most of Finland is having its summer holiday right now) but we should come up with them soon. In addition, we’re trying to get many foreign live shows, too.

And we have started writing new material, too, but it’s far too early to write anything about it…

The album has been released in Finland toda!

In addition, we’ve got some new information to share. The album will be out in:

• United Kingdom: 1st of June
• Japan: 24th of June

Hello there!

Just to remind you we’ve got an official Facebook page… Join it if you want.

Reviews in English:

• http://heavymetalcosmos.com/en/content/eternal-tears-sorrow-children-dark-waters-0 “Words are not enough.”
• http://www.powerofmetal.dk/reviews09/etos_review.htm (with a very personal imterpretation of the lyrics… )
• http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showreview.php?id=14072&lang=en “Well, no need in saying more: just buy this, it is a stunner!”
• http://www.hardcoresounds.net/modules.php?name=Band_List&file=cdviewer&func=4144 ““Children Of The Dark Waters” is a rock solid album that definitely is worth checking out!”
• http://thegatesofmetalw.blogspot.com/2009/06/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-review.html
  

Reviews in Finnish:

• Sue Magazine: http://koti.mbnet.fi/goashem/sue.jpg “EToS puree kuin yöpakkanen.” 8/10
  
• Mesta: http://www.mesta.net/musa/arvostelut/?aid=2040 “Children Of The Dark Waters on täyttä tavaraa viimeiseen minuuttiin asti.” 4/5
  
• Imperiumi: http://www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=albums&id=9067 8/10
• Keskisuomalainen / Savon Sanomat: http://www.ksml.fi/viihde/levyt/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-children-of-the-dark-waters/449697 “Parin vuoden takainen comeback-levy Before the Bleeding Sun oli vielä jotain sinne päin, mutta nyt nasahtaa.” 4/5
  
• http://www.noise.fi/levyarvostelut/?id=10576 “Children of the Dark Waters on ehyempää EToSta kuin mitä on aiemmin kuultu.” 5/5

Reviews in German:

• http://www.smalltowncriminals.de/newsfl/content/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5099
• http://www.schwarze-news.de/2009/05/15/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-children-of-the-dark-waters-review-und-kritik/(10/10)
• http://allover-ffm-rock.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4405&Itemid=91
• http://metalaustria.me.ohost.de/eternaltearsofsorrow.htm
• http://www.pure-metal.de/portal/portal_module.php?module=8&review=1909&sid=&phpMyAdmin=003d4aec57788f3fd2774abb802b5ad0 (6/6)
• http://allschools.de/recordReview.php3?ID=57711
• http://www.darkscene.at/index.php?m=review&i=3859&PHPSESSID=b2dcfc1d7cf6f4a0115ff814a23f7c7e
• http://www.sleaze-metal.com/reviews/read/cd/eternal_tears_of_sorrow-children_of_the_dark_waters.html
• http://www.verloreneseelen.net/cms/artikel/artikel.php?id=102
• http://www.metal.de/cdreviews.php4?was=review&id=12628
• http://powermetal.de/review/review-Eternal_Tears_Of_Sorrow/Children_Of_The_Dark_Waters,14029.html
• http://www.musik.terrorverlag.de/rezensionen.php?select_cd=8969
• http://www.ragazzi-music.de/eternaltearsofsorrow.html
• http://www.stormbringer.at/reviews.php?id=3851
• http://www.underground-empire.com/reloc.php?reloc=http%3A//www.underground-empire.com/review.php%3Fidx%3D8594
• http://www.mescaline-injection.de/?p=1554
• http://www.musik.terrorverlag.de/rezensionen.php?select_cd=8969&genre_1=1&genre_2=1&genre_3=1&genre_4=1&genre_5=1&genre_6=1

Reviews in French:

• http://www.extreme-metal.com/site/message.php?message=840&idRegion=27

Reviews in Spanish:

• http://noizzweb.blogspot.com/2009/06/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-children-of.html

Reviews in Dutch:

• http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/13229/Eternal-Tears-of-Sorrow-Children-of-the-Dark-Waters.html

Reviews in Italian:

• http://www.heavyworlds.com/reviews.php?id=390
• http://asopblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/eternal-tears-of-sorrow-children-of.html
• http://www.rockline.it/print-review3654.html

Reviews in Hungarian:

• http://www.passzio.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17206

To read the non-English reviews in English or another language, use Google Translate…

Eternal Tears Of Sorrow has had several setbacks during the past nine months, including the most recent setback, Risto Ruuth (guitar) leaving the band just before the mixing session. However, EToS proves that adversities can be overcome. The band announced an open search and plenty of applications arrived from Finland and abroad.  After listening to the demos and having test rehearsals, the band made their decision.

“The new guitarist is Mika Lammassaari from Oulu. Mika has a “heavy hand” when it comes to playing guitar, he has quick fingers and is full energy for the live shows. He is already known from Mors Subita, an Oulu-based metal band, in which he is responsible for almost all of the band’s material.”, says Altti Veteläinen (vocals/bass).

The band’s sixth album “Children of the Dark Waters” will be released in a few weeks and a quick taster (“Tears of Autumn Rain” single) has already been released in February. Now, EToS starts rehearsing with the new guitarist to have several gigs next autumn, firm as iron.

“Children of the Dark Waters” pre-listening event is held at PSK Kaupunni restaurant, Oulu, Finland on Saturday, 9th of May. The event starts at 7 o’clock pm. Welcome!

http://eternaltears.info
www.myspace.com/etos1
Press photos: http://www.propromotion.fi/media/ and http://www.massacre-records.com/promo/

Line-up:
Altti Veteläinen – vocals, bass
Jarmo Kylmänen – vocals
Jarmo Puolakanaho – guitar
Mika Lammassaari – guitar
Janne Tolsa – keyboards
Juho Raappana – drums

More Information:
FINNISH LABEL
Suomen Musiikki, Kari Hynninen, 040 824 3915, kari.hynninen@suomenmusiikki.fi
FINNISH PROMOTION:
ProPromotion Oy, Taija Holm, 040 748 3435, taija@propromotion.fi

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!

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

- Eternal Tears of Sorrow-
http://www.eternaltears.info
http://www.myspace.com/etos1

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

- Eternal Tears of Sorrow-
http://www.eternaltears.info
http://www.myspace.com/etos1

That’s the name of the forthcoming album. See the main page of this website to see the album cover and to read further information on the album.

After these long months full of hard work and lots of incidents, it could also be called “Curse of the Dark Waters”. Well, we don’t care about those incidents but keep going strong..

The mixing session will start tomorrow and the mastering session will start just after that. We just can’t wait to hear the result of those sessions.. And we hope you can’t either.

And oh yeah.. Don’t believe some sites claiming that the album is out now or is coming out in April. It’s going to be out everytwhere in May. We’ll let you know when we get the exact release dates…

EToS 2009

This is the first official photo of our new line-up.

From left to right:

• Risto Ruuth (lead guitars)
• Janne Tolsa (keyboards)
• Jarmo Kylmänen (clean vocals)
• Altti Veteläinen (bass, vocals)
• Juho Raappana (drums)
• Jarmo Puolakanaho (guitars)

More coming soon…!

We’ve proud to announce the first gigs this year… They’ll be done with Omnium Gatherum and Ghost Brigade.

The dates are:

• Saturday, May 9, Lutakko, Jyväskylä.
• Saturday, May 16, Teatria, Oulu. Doors open at 21:00, 12€ (K-18).
• Saturday, May 23, Nosturi, Helsinki. Doors open at 21:00, 10€ (-S-/K18).

More information from:

• Mr. Toni Peltola
• toni@firebox.fi
• +358 440 218 601
• http://firebox.fi/360/index.php?page=agency_info_en
  

The single is out now in Finland! Here’s the lyrics:

Tears of Autumn Rain

It’s autumn night, the pale moon reveals my emptiness
And my hollow wrath and fear inside
I close my eyes to sense her nightly lust once again
But my rage and thirst won’t fade away

The nightly mist, the scent of autumn in my heart
I can hear the winter’s song again
My will of life falls away like golden leaves
I’m just a flame who dies in shades

Let me feel your pain, tears of autumn rain
Words of blood on the shore: “There is light no more”
Freezing gale of the night silenced the stream of life
Lay us down to sleep on the crimson leaves

(Music: Kylmänen, Lyrics: Puolakanaho & Veteläinen, Arr: Eternal Tears of Sorrow)

ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW: new single “Tears of Autumn Rain” pre-listening at MySpace

Eternal Tears of Sorrow’s new single “Tears of Autumn Rain” will be released in Finland, the 18th of February, 2009 by KHY Suomen Musiikki Oy. You can pre-listen to new single track at the band’s official MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/etos1

The second track of the single is remade version of Vilda Mánnu, which was the title song of the band’s second album, released in 1998.

The cover artwork for single was made by Travis Smith and can be previewed here:

Tears of Autumn Rain was Recorded at Tico-Tico Studios, Note On Studios, Finnvox Studios in Finland and Space Valley Studios in Norway 2008.
Engineered by Ahti Kortelainen, Janne Tolsa, Mikko Karmila and Henning Ramseth.
Mixed at Finnvox Studios December 2008 by Mikko Karmila.
Mastered at Finnvox Studios by Mika Jussila.

Produced by Eternal Tears of Sorrow.
All arrangements by Eternal Tears of Sorrow.
All clean vocals and choirs produced and arranged by Jarmo Kylmänen.

Drums by Petri Sankala.
Female vocals by Miriam Renvåg (Ram-Zet) and Heidi Parviainen (Amberian Dawn).

Eternal Tears of Sorrow are:
Altti Veteläinen: vocals and bass guitar
Jarmo Kylmänen: clean vocals
Jarmo Puolakanaho: guitar
Risto Ruuth: lead guitar
Janne Tolsa: keyboards
Juho Raappana: drums

The official Eternal Tears of Sorrow websites:
http://www.eternaltears.info
http://www.myspace.com/etos1

KHY Suomen Musiikki Oy
Pursimiehenkatu 29 E
00150 Helsinki Finland
Tel: +358-40-824 3915
info@suomenmusiikki.fi

Finally, it’s 2009!

We’ve been writing songs for the forthcoming album for more than two years now. Dozens of riffs and melodies were written, dozens of mp3 demo files and hundreds of emails were sent, dozens of weird working titles for the songs were written etc. etc.

Now, we’re at a point where over 40 minutes of music have been written. Naturally, we still need to write and rewrite a lot of lyrics, melodies, solos during the next four weeks.. But in the end, now we know what the forthcoming album is going to sound like. As a whole, it’s solid entity. Compared to material on the previous album, these new songs are darker and heavier. A bunch of nice songs that sound like us, that’s the most important thing in the end..

So, what next? We’ll start the final recording session in early February. During this session, the single will come out. The whole album will be released in April and also at that time, it’s time to celebrate our 15th anniversary. You know, this band was officially formed in April / May 1994 even though the pre-EToS projects had been around for two years. We started recording our first demo tape (or promo tape) in April ’94 and during these recording sessions, we found out that we need a new name. So, in May, we had a new name for the band “Eternal Tears of Sorrow” as well as a brand new demo tape.

Oh yeah, and we’ll start doing live shows in May. For various reasons, we couldn’t do so many gigs in 2006 and 2007 but now we’re trying to do more of them.

Petri Sankala (drums) has left the band. The reason for this mutual decision is Petri’s back pain that hasn’t allowed him to play drums 100% during the past two years. None of us has bad feelings whatsoever and we wish Petri all the best!

We’d like to introduce the replacement, Mr. Juho Raappana. In the past, Juho has played in many local bands such as Impish, Catamenia and Mythos. Having Gene Hoglan and Sean Reinert as his biggest influences, we think Juho is the best possible man to take the job. After all, fifteen years ago when we started, Death and Cynic influenced us.

So, the new EToS lineup is:

Altti Veteläinen: growling vocals, bass
Jarmo Kylmänen: clean vocals
Jarmo Puolakanaho: guitars
Risto Ruuth: lead guitars
Janne Tolsa: keyboards
Juho Raappana: drums

P.S. Our forthcoming single was mixed last weekend. It will contain one new song and a brand new version of an old song. The single will be out in February and the album in April.

…And now we’re waiting it to be mixed and mastered.

The name of the single will be revealed later as well as the names of the songs on it. Let’s just say we haven’t recorded any cover songs this year and probably won’t be recording any of those next year, either.

The album still doesn’t have a name, though, not even a working title. I suppose we need to write more lyrics to fetch the title.

More news coming up in the near future…!

P.S. Take a look at the photos (shot by me), as they show Altti and Jarmo K in action.

For the first time, Eternal Tears of Sorrow has six members. We welcome Mr. Jarmo Kylmänen to join our forces. Jarmo K has been our “sixth member” since late 2005, helping us with songs, melodies and his voice on ‘Before the Bleeding Sun’ and all the gigs after our comeback. Cheers, it’s about time!

Our sixth album will be out in April 2009 by Suomen Musiikki in Finland, Massacre Records in other European countries and Marquee/Avalon in Asia.

The first chance to hear our new material will be Finnish Metal Expo in Helsinki in February 2009. This will be the release date of the forthcoming single as well. And don’t forget – we’ll finally enter the music video era, so stay tuned, folks!

The interesting offer has been postponed ’til next summer – we really, really hope that it will happen then!

P.S. Don’t worry, this won’t affect the timetables related to the album! It’s still coming out in about six or seven months!

Due to a very interesting offer, we have made some minor alterations in our future plans, just in case. The final “main” recording session was moved from January to February, which unfortunately may mean the release date of the forthcoming album is going to be delayed for a month as well.

But don’t worry, folks, the album is still on its way!

Recording an album is really an interesting process. You can record everything at once, which in our case would take several weeks. So now, after recording many albums in one session, we’ve started to prefer a completely different way of recording an album. It’s fine for us to record the album in several sessions, piece by piece, step by step.

So, the latest piece of news is: we’ve recorded most of the tracks for the first half of the sixth album. Well, in this case “the first half” does not mean “the first five songs on the albums” but more like “about 50% of the songs to be appear on the album”. The rest of the tracks for these songs will be recorded by October, we hope. And the rest of the songs will be recorded in January and February.

Meanwhile, we’re busy writing the rest of the songs. For me, that’s the most interesting part of the whole song-writing process. It’s always an exciting process of exploration and discovery, it’s like going deep into your darkest parts of your mind and trying to dig for some gold. So, the forthcoming months are going to be veeeery interesting.

Tired but happy, that’s what we are. The first recording session is over and the basic tracks have been laid down for several songs. Now, it’s time to catch some breath and after a while, the intensive song-writing process starts again.

Have a great summer, guys and gals, we’ll return in early August when the next recording session takes place!

The album:

• …doesn’t have a name yet.
• …will be recorded between June and January at Tico-Tico and Note-On Studios.

It will be released in March 2009:

• In Finland by Suomen Musiikki
• In the rest of Europe by Massacre Records
• in Japan and some other parts of Asia by Marquee/Avalon

Eternal Tears of Sorrow – New Record Deal!

Finnish melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow has signed a new recording deal with KHY Suomen Musiikki Oy, a Finnish label. At the moment, the band is doing pre-production for their sixth album that will be released in March 2009. As with the previous five albums, the album will be recorded at Tico-Tico Studio in Kemi, Finland.

During their fourteen-year-long career, the band has cemented their reputation as one of the finest metal acts, which has already opened doors for the band; it’s still almost a year before the album is going to be released, and it has already been licenced to Massacre Records (who will be release the album in Europe excluding Finland) and Marquee/Avalon (who is going to release the album in Asia).

www.eternaltears.info

www.suomenmusiikki.fi

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Eternal Tears of Sorrow’lle uusi sopimus

Melodista deathmetallia esittävä Eternal Tears of Sorrow on allekirjoittanut sopimuksen KHY Suomen Musiikki Oy:n kanssa. Yhtye tekee parhaillaan esituotantoa kuudennelle albumilleen joka julkaistaan maaliskuussa 2009. Yhtye levyttää jälleen Kemissä Tico Tico -studiolla Ahti Kortelaisen kera.

Bändin kovasta maineesta kertoo se että jo nyt, liki vuosi ennen julkaisua, olemme tehneet Euroopan sopimuksen Massacre Recordsin kanssa ja Japanin ja Aasian sopimuksen Marquee/Avalonin kanssa.