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Barren Earth tracklisting revealed


Barren Earth Finland's up-and-coming progressive/death metal act BARREN EARTH will release their debut full-length Curse Of The Red River on March 29th in Europe and April 6th in North America via Peaceville Records. The tracklisting is as follows:

'The Curse Of The Red River'
'Our Twilight'
'Forlorn Waves'
'Flicker'
'The Leer'
'The Ritual Of Dawn'
'Ere All Perish'
'Cold Earth Chamber'
'Deserted Morrows'

With a wealth of experience from internationally renowned acts, featuring former members of Finnish metallers AMORPHIS, to current members of SWALLOW THE SUN, MOONSORROW and KREATOR, Barren Earth presents progressive and folk textured death/doom metal of the highest order.

Curse Of The Red River combines the best elements of metal, prog, and more obscure psychedelic rock – from OPETH to PINK FLOYD, and PARADISE LOST to JETHRO TULL.

The Curse Of The Red River recording session took place at Seawolf Studios, Helsinki (GHOST BRIGADE), in summer 2009 with mixing carried out by the prolific Dan Swanö at Unisound in Sweden.

Swano states, "One of the best albums I have ever had the privilege to mix. The album is THAT good!"

Barren Earth recently conducted their debut live gig in their hometown of Helsinki, and plan to embark upon a series of shows throughout 2010, with a performance at the legendary Summer Breeze festival already confirmed.

Barren Earth is:

Mikko Kotamäki – vocals (Swallow The Sun), Olli-Pekka Laine – bass (ex-Amorphis, Mannhai), Kasper Mårtenson –Keyboards (ex-Amorphis, Ben Granfelt Band), Janne Perttilä – guitar (Rytmihäiriö), Marko Tarvonen – Drums (Moonsorrow), Sami Ylisirniö – Guitar (Kreator, Waltari).

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    January 13, 2010

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