Swallow the Sun…oh boy this one was difficult. There was one question going through my mind throughout the saturday…how will Swallow The Sun sound live? I mean the band is simply awesome but they are also in a way this moody and slow and I wasn’t quite sure how it would fit the crowd especially since there were bands like Survivors Zero, Winterborn, Insomnium, Apocalyptica and Sonata Arctica on saturday too. Each of them presented genres that were popular and I wasn’t sure how this doomish thing would work…but hey…people absolutely loved it. There were some people who left during the gig but perhaps they were some Sonata Arctica fans and since they didn’t get high and loud the decided to leave. It was their loss. I loved the stage presence of vocalist Mikko Kotamäki. He wasn’t jumping around or anything…he stood there and did his thing. And after each song he just said with a very low voice “Kiitoksia” (thank you). I think it was supercool  They played songs from their latest album “New Moon” (of course) but they also included one of my alltime favourites to their setlist. That being of course “Don’t Fall Asleep (Horror pt.2)” from “Hope” -album.

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One nice surprise on the Swallow The Sun gig was the guest artist Aleah who came on stage to sing a song “Lights on the Lake (Horror Pt. III)” with Mikko Kotamäki. It was pure perfection to hear her angelic voice with Mikko’s hellish growling and it suited the atmospere perfectly.

All in all the gig of Swallow The Sun was very atmospheric. I wasn’t familiar with all their songs unfortunately but even the ones I didn’t recognize sounded very good…hmm…maybe I will open Spotify and interact with Roberta and Jonathan a bit and perhaps I can listen to some tunes of Swallow The Sun every now and then 

But my fears of how Swallow The Sun would work live was rubbish cause the entire show was simply awesome. And it won’t be the last StS gig I will attend…that’s a promise!

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