Finnish dark rock band DOL's new song was born out of personal tragedy
Finnish melancholic dark rock band DOL have released the single "Dead Note" from their upcoming EP to be released later this year.
Vocalist-guitar player Eero “Mc” Veri backgrounds the new song:
Tragedy… Death… Sorrow…
It can suck the life out of you. If you have faced it, you know how it is. Our family faced a huge tragedy two years ago and that is how this song got written. I have always known the best songs are born out of the worst moments of our lives; I actually have tattoo on my forearm saying “I=ART=PAIN” as a reminder for that. Ever since I wrote this song, I have felt that this truly is the best song I have written so far. Most personal and meaningful. The song itself came about quite easily, I wrote almost the entire structure, melody, and all the lyrics in one go. Of course, we finetuned it later as a band to be what it is now. Dead Note is also the debut song for our new keyboardist called Cantor-O, who did amazing job here with his pianos and soundscapes, that really put the song to a new level. Other musicians on the record were the familiar lineup from previous DOL releases:
Eero “Mc” Veri on vocals and guitar (that`s me) , Hades Faith on second guitar, Jykä “Low” on bass and Catsy on drums, as well as previously mentioned Cantor-O on keyboards/synths
Production on this song was really different compared to our last ep. We went to an actual studio, instead of using our home studios and did all the recording there, except for synths. We had our engineer/producer Arti Waine helping us on the recording part and he gave some good advice or two there as well. This time we also didn`t use almost any samples/programmed elements, that has been our thing in the past and we recorded real drums and amps instead of digital ones. It seemed to fit the song better and we always go with what serves the song best first, not what is the most convenient. That said we might go right back to more programmed elements on our upcoming ep, that this song will be part of as well… Let’s see. Tuning wise, we went down to drop C, that is a bit heavier sounding tuning than the regular drop D that we have used on our previous work. There are also new elements on the song, such as acoustic guitars and almost opera-style of singing, influenced by Nightwish.
The mixing was done by the talented young mixing engineer called Antony Potenza of Antony Potenza productions. This guy has done some amazing work on the field of modern metal, and he was awesome to work with. In fact, so awesome, that we agreed to work with him for this upcoming ep of ours, that we are now on process of writing the last bits for.
The end product Dead Note is just an amazing song, and we can’t wait to hear what our audience thinks about it and can’t wait playing it live on our upcoming shows.
Listen to the "Dead Note" on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/dol-deadnote
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01. Dead Note
ISRC: FI3FC2483901
Composition: Eero Kaasinen
Lyrics. Eero Kaasinen
Arrangement. Eero Kaasinen, Hannes Härkönen, Kari Meetoniemi, Jyrki Vanhanen, Osmo Lassila
