Finland’s finest, Svarta Havet are back with another incredible single from their forthcoming album ‘Månen ska lysa din väg’, out May 9th via Prosthetic Records.
The long nights of their geographical location has bled into the band’s sound, resulting in beautiful but gloomy black metal tinged post-hardcore.
The band have this to say about their new single:
“Wonderful is the earth,
and everything that ever grew on it” -Lotta
In the Nordic countries “Härlig är jorden” is a christian psalm sung at many occasions, often funerals. Personally I´ve always liked it, not because of its christian message, but because of its harmonic grandiosity that somehow captures the essence of life. When I heard the track taking shape my thought immediately went to this psalm that I sang all through my school years and I wanted to rewrite it as a simple declaration of admiration and love for life and the earth – with a more specific focus on how fantastic it is that we get to spend time on this wondrous globe. There are some direct quotes from the original psalm but for the most parts the words are completely different. -Lotta
This track was the one that for me would clearly come to set the tone for the rest of the record, we experimented quite a bit with the chord progressions to get something quite beautiful but still rough around the edges. It was the centerpiece that we built the rest of the record around. -Joakim
The video for Härlig är jorden is just a completely unironic love letter to nature, all the little details that make the forests and meadows irreplaceable treasures. -Joakim”