Adamantra – The Offering

Adamantra, who released their third album in the fall, has found some previously unreleased material from the band’s early days in their vaults. The lively power metal song Shining Time was recorded during the band’s debut album Revival sessions in 2007–2008. However, the bonus track intended for the Japanese market or as a B-side to a single never made it to any release. The band decided to finally release the song with a lyric video based on gig and other footage from the band’s early years.

Bass player Jukka Hoffrén recalls the song’s history and journey:
“Shining Time is the first song I wrote for Adamantra sometime in the late 90’s and with this song I started to form the idea of a new band of my own. The song was performed at a few gigs and was intended to be used as a Japanese bonus track or as a B-side of a single, but neither of those things came to fruition, so it remained dormant for years somewhere in the depths of my hard drives. It’s great that the song is finally being released. This is where it all started.”

Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/adamantra-shiningtime

The song begins a trilogy about the adventures of King Arthur, and the second part will be released later this spring.

DISCOGRAPHY:
For Ever -EP (Tunerail 2006)
Revival (Sound of Finland 2009)
Act II: Silent Narratives (Power Prog 2014)
Act III – Pareidolia of Depravity (Inverse 2024)

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Ever since the early 2000’s has Adamantra forged its versatile power metal and is, after a long hiatus, releasing its third album Act III – Pareidolia of Depravity on October 25th through Inverse Records. Both musically and thematically the album carries on from where the previous album Act II: Silent Narratives ended, but for the first time a string quartet can be heard on three songs, which of course adds a tasteful flavor to the mix.

All eight songs tell grim tales of different eras, the evil things surrounding us, its openness to interpretation and differing points of view. Now released single False Illusions, with its accompanied lyric video, touches the subject of the problems of a totalitarian society, of which the bass player Jukka Hoffrén speaks as follows:

”The lyrics are about a surveillance society and totalitarian dictatorship. The loss of one’s privacy, freedom of thought and expression means the total of loss of freedom, though it might, at the same time, be an illusion of harmony and peace. Surveillance society is really a dictatorship. Can happiness be guaranteed to an individual in the name of mutual success and conformity?”
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/adamantra-falseillusions

Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/kcZhNDwsTbQ

LINE-UP:

Tuomas Nieminen – Vocals

Panu Kiskola – Guitars

Jukka Hoffrén – Bass Guitar (Amberian Dawn & Coventhrall)

Chrism – Keyboards (James LaBrie & Simulacrum)

Mikko Sepponen – Drums