A Dramatic Release by Finnish Band I Am The Night Conjures 1990s Black Metal Style

I Am The Night to release 1990s Black Metal-inspired album

Rising from the deep valleys of Kymi in southernmost Finland, I Am The Night is black metal rooted in the classic early 1990s tradition, where walls of guitars and synthesizers raise the forces of darkness in a battle against the heavens and burning angels light up the night sky.

The band’s debut full length album, with cover art by scene legend Necrolord, bears the title While The Gods Are Sleeping and us set to be released on May 6, 2022.

The record was birthed during the heaviest blizzard Finland had seen in years in the winter of 2021, with the band holed up at the Soundspiral Audio studio during the height of the pandemic.

“This album, in a way, is both the thing that should not be and something we should have made flesh many moons ago already,” said Markus Vanhala. “It is a passage back in time that dark forest of our minds through which we spent our youth traversing.”

Together with the album announcement the band are set to release a second single from the album, titled “Ode To The Nightsky.”

The music video for the song was created by Coldstore Productions.

Brought forth by underground titans of Finnish Metal, Markus Vanhala (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum), Janne Markkanen (ex-Omnium Gatherum), Okko Solanterä (Horizon Ignited) and Waltteri Väyrynen (Paradise Lost, Bodom After Midnight), the band’s origins date back to the dimly lit subterranean rehearsal rooms of the mid-nineties where the fires of Vanhala and Markkanen’s Black Metal zeal were ignited.

“Black metal art has been a continuous and serious pursuit in my personal life since my early teenage years,” said guitarist Vanhala. In The Nightside Eclipse, Storm Of The Light’s Bane and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas opened the gate to the dark side for me years ago, as can be heard from the music we make with I Am The Night.”

Check out ‘Ode To The Nightsky’ here: