Description
The dark shores of the Baltic Sea are home to gloomy melancholy and a place where many sad stories have come to an inevitable end. Still, on rare occasions new life emerges from the sea. Finnish coastal town of Kotka is the birth place of Marianas Rest, a band whose gloomy and doomy death metal has been forged by the crushing pressure of the deep and their album Horror Vacui is a finest example of Scandinavian distress turned into a killer work.
Horror Vacui | Released October 22nd, 2016 on Sliptrick Records
Track Listing:
01. The Millennialist | 02. Nadir | 03. For The Heartless | 04. Hurts Like Hell | 05. A Lonely Place To Die | 06. Chokehold | 07. Place Of Nothing | 08. Vestigial
Marianas Rest are:
Jaakko Mäntymaa – Vocals | Nico Mänttäri – Guitar | Harri Sunila – Guitar | Nico Heininen – Drums | Harri Vainio – Bass | Aapo Koivisto – Keyboard
Band links: Official Website | Facebook | Youtube
metal-archives.com –
Marianas Rest lets its songs develop. They grow branches, and diversify, and they sound like nothing done before …read more
deadrhetoric.com –
Regardless of approach, you’ll find Marianas Rest have written songs that strike a chord. It’s a sound that’s familiar yet unique enough to get them some attention as word spreads around. If melodic doom is your jam, get behind these guys now and watch them take flight over the next few years …read more
obscuro.cz –
When you’re still shivering with excitement, it’s very hard to write a review… Nevertheless, I shall try and begin from the start. Marianas Rest are not a well-known band and it had been totally unknown to me before one of my twitter friends drew my attention to it by sending me their music video called Nadir. Even the very first listening was quite strong, for the sound is quite unique. Discovering uniqueness on the first listening is an unusual thing, especially for someone, who doesn’t expect surprises anymore. Marianas Rest are surprising …read more
aristocraziawebzine –
The Finnish musical panorama, filled with fantastic beautiful and obscure realities, has seen the rise of Marianas Rest, with the publication of “Horror Vacui”. This debut album, released back in October 2016, blends the most classic Finnish Melodic Death Metal — as Insomnium and Omnium Gatherum’s one — with the likewise famous melodic Doom played, for example, by Swallow The Sun, creating a mixture not properly original but definitely very enjoyable and stunningly good.