• Fan - Pictures - New pictures added!

Here's the new stuff this week:

• Media - Gallery - The New 2008 Promo Pictures are up!
• Media - Competitions - Two New Competitions added!
• Media - Downloads - 2 New Plague of Butterflies Videos added!
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member Colony!

Two amazing competitions have gone up today! 

One for guest passes and a meet and greet at an upcoming show, and the other for an amazing signed picture!

 Be sure to check them out by pressing right here!

• Band - FAQ - Updated the release dates for Plague of Butterflies to reflect the US release.

• Band - Discography - Updated the release dates for Plague of Butterflies to reflect the US release.

• Band - Projects - Updated Alghazanth with the latest news.

• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member Withering_Seraphim!

The latest competition winners have been announced over at the Competition page.   Head to see if you are one of them by pressing right here!

You can also find the new competition details there too!

• Fan - Spotlight - Meet fan club member Sorrow!

• Band - Discography - Plague of Butterflies added
• Media - Gallery - Hannover, Musikzentrum, Germany 17.4.2007
• Media - Gallery - Hannover, Germany, 13.11.2007
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added

You can now pre-order the next release, "Plague of Butterflies"

Outside of Finland you should pre-order by pressing here!

Inside Finland you should pre-order by pressing here!

Don't forget you can also discuss the new release with the band and other fans on the forums!

Plague of Butterflies

So, we have finished recording the "Plague of Butterflies" and it's time to give you some details about this forthcoming release.

Plague of Butterflies is a story about an old hermit, deep woods, loneliness and the plague. It's one song in three parts and holds about 35 minutes of crushing gloom, beauty and despair. Music was originally ordered from us for a really interesting and big project, but the project was sadly abandoned. Because of this we are planning to use the music in different context - namely in a short movie - and we are in search for suitable partners to make this happen. We'll give
more info on this later as things move on and wheels start to roll.

The track list of Plague of Butterflies:

I. Losing the Sunsets
II. Plague of Butterflies
III. Evael 10:00

The album also includes the rare "Out of This Gloomy Light" demo that got us signed back in 2003. There was only three demos sent out, so this is really rare stuff and holds some of the darkest and coldest moments ever recorded by us.

Out of This Gloomy Light -demo:

1. Through Her Silvery Body
2. Out of This Gloomy Light
3. Under the Waves
4. Swallow (Horror pt.1)

Plague of Butterflies will be released on September 17th by Spinefarm Records.

• Band - FAQ - Updated.
• Contact - Links - New Link added.
• Fan - Art - New Tattoo pictures added (3)
• Tour - Tammerfest, Pakkahuone, Finland added.

• Tour - Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland added
• Media - CD Reviews - Hope reviews added (6)
• Media - Competitions - New Competition added!
• Gallery - Pictures from Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland added

You can get to the competition page to check out the winners, and the new competition by pressing right here!

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Moscow Doom Fest added (2)
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member Sandra/Solitude!

Juha shares some more news about the new recording on the forums today!  You'll need to register on the forums to read it and join in the discussions.

Find the forums by pressing here!

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Moscow Doom Fest added (2)

• Media - Gallery - New folder with random pictures from the NA Tour added
• Media - Gallery - New folder with random pictures from the Silent Waters Tour added
• Media - CD Reviews - a new review of Hope added

• Band - Biography - Updated with current news.
• Media - Live Reviews - Many live reviews have had pictures added from the relevant shows
• Media - Competitions - A new competition is up!
• Fan - Art - New site banner added
• Fan - Pictures - New Picture of fans with the band added

The competition winners for the Official Logo Pin have been announced on the competition page, and a new competition has gone up!

You can get to the competition page to check out the winners, and the new competition by pressing right here!

• Band - Projects - Plutonium Orange - current news added
• Band - Projects - Alghazanth - current news added
• Band - FAQ - A new FAQ added
• Media - Downloads - Interview in Finnish with Juha Tuska 2006 added
• Media - Downloads - Interview in Finnish with Juha FME 2007 added
• Media - Downloads - Interview in Finnish with Mikko and Matti by Get In The Pit
• Tour - 18.4.2008  Orlandina, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Tour - 19.4.2008 Moscow Doom Fest Chapter III Club Tochka, Moscow, Russia.
• Tour - 2.5.2008 With Ocean Floor Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Fan - Spotlight - Get ready to meet Fan Club Member Alex!

About the Past and the Future
Some news from the frontline. First of all we want to thank everyone for making year 2007 such an amazing year for Swallow the Sun. We played almost 100 gigs supporting the album "Hope", including 2 European tours, our first North-American tour and a mini tour in Spain and Portugal. We had an honour to play huge festivals outside Finland, such as Wacken Open Air, Summer Breeze, With Full Force and Metal Heart Festival. We also shot two videos, for "Don't Fall Asleep" and "Doomed to Walk the Earth".

"Hope" got some good positions in yearly readers' and critics' polls, including the 3rd position in Best Metal Album -series in Soundi-magazine critics' poll. We were voted also in many other music magazine's readers' polls for the best band and album of 2007, with the charts consisting mainly of mainstream artists in Finland. We won the "Mättöfemma" gategory in Femmagaala awards in Finland.

So, big thanks to all you who made it worth it by coming to see us on tour, buying the album and making it enter the national Finnish charts on position #3 and being so nice to us where ever we went.

Alright, about the dark future: We are now rehearsing new music and enter studio this spring to record the next Swallow The Sun release called "Plague of Butterflies", that will be released later this year. We will give you more news about this new opus soon and what it will be...

The plague is coming, people, the plague is coming.

• Media - Gallery - New pictures from Lisbon, Portugal

• Fan - Spotlight - Meet fan club member cruxskyler!
• Media - Competition - Competition winners announced!
• Media - Competition - A New Competition is up!

The competition winners for the North American Tour Poster have been announced on the competition page, and a new competition has gone up!

You can get to the competition page to check out the winners, and the new competition by pressing right here!

• Fan - Pictures - New pictures of fans with the band!
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet fan club member aisi!

• Media - Interviews - Interview with Juha and Pasi - (Plaskis)
• Media - Competitions - A new competitions is up!
• Tour - Tampere, Finland added

• Media - Live Reviews - Review from NA Tour - St Paul, Minnesota added
• Tour - Date for Jaromer, Czech Republic added
• Fan - Lingo - New Phrase added

• Media - Interview - Interview with Juha (The Fan Club) added

• Media - CD Reviews - New Hope review added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Helldone Festival, Helsinki '07 added (Two sets)

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Aschaffenburg, Germany '07 added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Simerock 2007 Rovaniemi, Finland added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Tuska Open Air '07 added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Ludwigsburg, Germany '07 added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Tuska Open Air '06 added

• Contact - Links - New Link added

A new interview by The Fan Club with Juha is now online. Juha discusses fans, next years plans, and the possibility of releasing the demo again! 

Find the interview right here!

• Band - Projects - Plutonium Orange - New Picture added
• Band - Projects - Ghost Brigade - Video added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Helsinki, Finland '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Paris, France '06 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Dordrecht, Netherlands '07 added
• Media - Live Review - Silent Waters Tour - Helsinki '07 added
• Media - Downloads - New Video added
• Fan - Pictures - New Picture added
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member Parallax!

• Media - Interviews - New Interview with Juha '07 (Metal Glory) added
• Media - Interviews - New Interview with Juha '07 (sounds2move) added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Stockholm, Sweden '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Utrecht, Netherlands '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Saarbrücken, Germany '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Summerbreeze Open Air '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Sauna Open Air '07 added
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added

• Media - Live Review - Tilburg, The Netherlands '06 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Madrid Spain added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Helsinki Finland '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Tuska Open Air '06 added
• Media - Downloads - Video interview with Juha and Matti added
• Media - Competition - New Competition added

• Media - Interviews - New Audio Interview with the band '07 added
• Media - Interview - Interview with Aleksi - Nocturnal Hall (2004) added
• Media - CD Reviews - Lots and lots of new reviews for the demo and each album added
• Media - Live Reviews - Review from The Netherlands added
• Media - Live Review - Reviews from Los Angeles added (2 new)
• Media - Live Review - Review from New York added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Helsinki, Finland '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Gran Canaria, Spain '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Munich, Germany '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Vosselaar, Belgium '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Stockholm, Sweden '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Budapest, Hungary '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Ragnarök Festival, Germany '07 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Tuska Open Air '06 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Lutakko Finland, '04 added
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Lutakko Finland, '03 added
• Fan - Art - Some new artwork added
• Fan - Pictures - More pictures of you with the guys added
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added

• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Patteln, Switzerland added.
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Utrecht, Netherlands added.
• Fan - Pictures - Loads of new pictures of you with the guys!
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added.
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member STS_Kelly!
• Contact - Guestbook - The Guestbook is now live!

• Band - FAQ - Information about Hope vinyl added.
• Tour - Diaries - Silent Waters tour diary added.
• Fan - Pictures - More pictures of you with the guys added!
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added.
• Contact - Links - Garden of Exile added.

You can pre-order Hope vinyl from here. The double LP is available in Black, Green, or Black/Green and will be available in January/February 2008; pushed back from its original release date due to art issues.

• Band - Biography - Current information added.
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Ploughkeepsie, NY added.
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Hannover, Germany added.
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Essen, Germany added.
• Media - Gallery - Pictures frrom Metal Heart, Norway added.
• Media - Competitions - New Competition added.
• Fan - Art - Misc - Another tattoo picture added.
• Fan - Lingo - New phrase added.

Competition winners for the Swallow the Sun decal have been announced on the Competition page and forums!  Congratulations to all the winners!

The second competition has also been announced on the Media-Competition page.  Good luck to all who enter!

The Silent Waters Tour begins today in Hannover, Germany!  Check the tour poster or tour link on the site for the rest of the dates.

• Band - FAQ - Where to buy the vinyl records.
• Media - Gallery - Ritmo y Compas, Madrid, Spain. Pictures added.
• Fan - Art - Misc- Tattoo's added.
• Fan - Art - Banners - Site Banner added.
• Fan - Lingo - New Phrase added.

Due to the overwhelming response to the current competition, the prize number available has been increased from 3 to 9!

Good luck!

• Band - Projects - Ghost Brigade added.
• Media - Gallery - Lots more fabulous pics added to Gutlord's folder!
• Media - Gallery - Pictures from Essen '07 added.
• Media - Interview - New Interview added.
• Media - Downloads - An Audio Interview with Juha and Mikko!  Recorded on the US tour!
• Tour - Helldone Festival added.
• Tour - Diaries - Pictures added to the Hope Studio Diary.
• Fan - Spotlight - Meet Fan Club Member Kai!
• Fan - Lingo - New Phrase Added.

• Band - Projects - Funeris Nocturnum - MySpace Site Added
• Tour - New Date Added
• Media - Live Reviews Added
• Gallery - New Photos Added
• Fan - Pictures Added
• Fan - Lingo - New Phrase Added

• Media - CD Review Added
• Media - Live Reviews Added
• Forum - Sections Added
• Fan - Pictures - More of your great pictures with the band!
• Contact - Links Added
• Tour - Diaries Added

Welcome to Swallowthesunfans.com!

We will update this site on a weekly basis and let you know right here as we do, so you can find the content quickly.

Don't forget to check the competition and spotlight pages regularly so you can enter to win Swallow the Sun related items and prizes!

There is a competition running right now so be sure to check the page out for details!

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