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Yep, here they are now.
We recorded drum tracks for seven songs last June and after that it's been mostly Make clicking and strumming away at his "home studio", with occasional visits to our rehearsal space to record Tomi's vocals whenever he happened to have free time from Amorphis.

These four demo songs are currently being sent out to various labels and will no doubt raise various comments along the lines of "how do you think anyone could possibly release, let alone sell copies of an album filled with songs like these?"

Fortunately that's none of our concern. We just churn out the stuff and if someone wants to release it, fine, and if no one wants to release it, then so be it. At least it's (mostly) out of our systems now that we've managed to put the songs on aural form.  Of course we'd like to record these ones properly too, in a proper studio, as well as several others we haven't completed yet. We'll see what happens. At the moment I'm very satisfied with these songs and look forward to completing a few more to make up an albums' worth of material.
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Since this page is now linked to various locations, here's the biography text included on the promo cd:

BIOGRAPHY

Tomi Joutsen - vocals
Markku Mäkinen - guitar
Erkki Virta - drums
Jari Korkkinen - bass
Marko Välimäki - guitar
Timo Vainio - keyboards

When the name Sinisthra is mentioned, it's probably most often along the lines of  "From Finland, right? it's the other/former band of Amorphis vocalist Tomi Joutsen, isn't it? I've heard of them but never heard them. Are they still doing the rounds?"

Yes they are. Sinisthra released their debut album "Last Of The Glories Of Long Past Glories" back in 2005 on Arise Records and after that not much has happened. The album got very favourable reviews and supposedly sold a very moderate amount of copies. Arise Records has seemingly gone out of business since then, Tomi Joutsen went on to tour endlessly and release two albums with Amorphis, and Sinisthra went on a low profile silent song writing mode.

And now it's 2008 and Sinisthra is back with an album's worth of new music and looking for a record label to collaborate with. Some of that material is presented here in a demo form and since the songs are lenghty and diverse this cd is also some 30 minutes long. Sorry about that, can't be helped. These songs mostly take a different path to those 3 minute ones targeted for radio play. These songs pick you up and carry you to places seldom seen if you let them. These songs soothe you and comfort you but also scratch at you and unsettle you. These songs are gravel glazed with honey and strawberries marinated in vitriol. And these songs deserve and demand to be released.

www.sinisthra.com
www.myspace.com/sinisthra