Swallow the Sun is a Finnish melodic doom metal/death metal band.
Swallow The Sun was formed in spring 2000 by Juha Raivio. Soon Pasi Pasanen came along as they both also played in Plutonium Orange. They rehearsed a couple of songs, one of them being Through Her Silvery Body from the first demo album Out of This Gloomy Light. In 2001 Markus Jämsen, whom Raivio and Pasanen already knew from their earlier bands, joined as a second guitarist and Mikko Kotamäki from Funeris Nocturnum as a vocalist. They rehearsed a few songs and started to look for both a bassplayer and keyboardist. The search wasn't very long: Aleksi Munter and Matti Honkonen, also of Funeris Nocturnum, joined the band after their first rehearsal with Swallow the Sun. So, in spring 2002 they started to arrange songs for the demo, which was recorded in January 2003. The recordings took place at Sam's Workshop with Sami Kokko, who also mixed the demo.
A record deal with Firebox Records was made a few months after...
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on Jan 31, 2008
Last updated: 03/11/10 at 09:45 AM
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