New Promo: Velvet Ocean
'My Life (Full Of Chaos)'
(Alternative Melodic Metal)
Release Date: Jul 22, 2021
FFO: Within Temptation, Evanescence, Nightwish
Velvet
Ocean is an alternative melodic metal band from Oulu, Northern Finland.
The story of the band began a couple of years ago as a co-writing
project of the main singer Riitu and guitarist Jake. As songs kept
popping up the project soon evolved into a studio project with both
session musicians and later band members joining in. Early in the
pre-production stage Oulu symphonic orchestra cello players Arto
Alikoski and Harri Österman joined as well as the established Finnish
keyboard player Marco Sneck. The recorded album, later given the name
“Purposes and Promises” was passed to Fascination Street Studios Johan
Örnborg and Jens Bogren for mixing and mastering, respectively. The name
of the album describes the motivation behind the album project. It has
been the sole purpose of our lives for the recent years and the promise
that was made to complete it has kept the project together throughout
the hard working period.
We
believe that music is a connection between one's emotions and the
outside world and that’s why our songs tell stories about things that
have been going on in our personal lives. The musical style of Velvet
Ocean is basically derived from all the music we have ever heard and
draws influences also from other genres than metal music. It is somewhat
reminiscent of other contemporary melodic metal bands with female
vocals, but adds a twist of pop and grunge as well as distinctive drum
beats and acoustic instruments.
Our
music is about honesty and dealing with certain emotions that some
difficulties or challenges in life have evoked. It’s about expressing
yourself and dealing with negative feelings in a way that other people
might also be able to relate to. Riitu, the singer and main
songwriter of Velvet Ocean describes her attitude towards music like
this: "Music is very important to me. It’s almost as important as the
air that I breathe. Music gives a meaning to my life. It’s also a sort
of therapy to me. With music I can express the thoughts and emotions
that I go through. I’m the kind of person that I have a very vivid
imagination and I feel that this is a quality that is very useful in
making music. Music connects me very strongly to my emotions in a way
that sometimes feels even a little bit excessive. It is very important
to me to communicate with the people listening to our music. I mean an
emotional level connection that would make the people try to understand
the feelings we have put into the blend that has eventually made the
music exist. I am also very visual in my composing. I would like the
mere music and the sound to fill the whole inner space of the person
listening with images and landscapes. Today the world is packed with
visual information and leaves less to the imagination which is kind of a
negative thing sometimes. In the end, I would love to think that our
music will prevail after everything we’ve gone through.”
Velvet
Ocean’s debut album “Purposes and Promises” was released on 7 Feb 2020
through Helsinki Records and is distributed by Warner Music Finland.
Velvet Ocean's latest single My Life (Full of Chaos) has been released
on 23rd July together with a lyric video of the song.
Check out the video!
https://youtu.be/XgM7qKhnGqw
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