Tuomas saukkonen biography of martin short

A decade ago, multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Saukkonen put to rest numerous bands to focus solely on Wolfheart. Slowly but surely, the resurrection of his other bands has begun — Dawn of Solace now releasing two albums since reforming in , and the surprising comeback for Before the Dawn. Dead Rhetoric: Before the Dawn is now back after originally dissolving the group in — what circumstances took place to resurrect this outfit, and how did you assemble the players including newest vocalist Paavo Laapotti?

Tuomas Saukkonen : It was a series of unforeseen events that led to this whole comeback. He plays guitar in Swallow the Sun, and I have a lot of tours booked with Wolfheart so for the first time in fifteen years there was an empty calendar which is a bit of a problem as an artist. We had a lot of time to think of things to do, so we decided to do a vinyl edition of one of our old albums — Deadlight , which was released in We wanted to make something special for the fans, so we wrote one new song, after like ten years to have something extra special, not just the same release.

Martin (Decapitated) took Novy's place in a guest appearance.

That started the domino effect. I sent him messages through Instagram, I complimented him on how the song was with his vocals. When the competition was done, he was second at the end. I suggested that we should try to do something musical together, I had some ideas that would fit his voice. The whole idea was to do a solo project for Paavo, and I would be in the background as a songwriter.

We went into the studio, we got the song done, and when I was driving home with the raw mix of the song the whole idea came to me that this sounds like Before the Dawn. And then I started calling the last members of the lineup in I called the bass player, one of the front of house guys, label guys, everybody who was in the inner circle of the band back in the day, asking if this was a crazy idea I had in my head, check out the song.