“I think this song sums up the album pretty nicely, hard and heavy with a lot of melody!”īURNING POINT’s new record was mastered by Juanne Huotari, and shines with its pleasant throwback to early 2000’s heavy metal sound, but with up-to-date production the band is known and loved for.
“As anyone can hear it’s very epic and very much Black Sabbath influenced,” Ahonen mentions. Now, the band unleashed a brand new single and video, showing off their hard rock (and 80’s) influences in glorious style. Songs such as the first, previously- released single “Blast In The Past”, have already showcased “Arsonist Of The Soul” will mark one of BURNING POINT’s strongest records to date. All the guys are very, very talented and excited!”, Ahonen comments.Ī little heavier than on their last album and featuring twelve blistering, razor- sharp tracks, BURNING POINT’s characteristic melodies are the distinctive core of the band’s sound, shrouded in a captivating depth of powerful melodic heavy metal and epic hard rock anthems. “I am extremely happy about the new line-up and the new record. Besides Ahonen, Sturniolo and Pekka Kolivuori, now bassist Jarkko Poussu (ex-member of Finnish thrash pioneers A.R.G.), Tuomas Jaatinen on drums and Matti Halonen (Keyboards) have joined BURNING POINT. Replacing Valo, Sturniolo turns out to be quite a discovery his powerful, varied vocals perfectly match with Ahonen’s fiery fretwork and strong, experienced songwriting. The main constant though, mastermind/guitarist/songwriter Pete Ahonen, always kept the ship on route and his clear vision and artistic integrity made BURNING POINT one of the most reliable purveyors of excellent classic power and heavy metal.Īfter handling the vocals on his own from the band’s foundation up until the arrival of Nitte Valo (ex- Battle Beast) in 2015, now Ahonen and BURNING POINT present a new voice on the band’s upcoming album: Luca Sturniolo. “Arsonist Of The Soul” will be released on Octothrough AFM Records, and you can listen to the album title track below.īURNING POINT may had its share of line-up changes throughout their more than two decades of existence. Following their latest, 2016- album “The Blaze”, Octowill see Finland’s melodic heavy and power metal force BURNING POINT return with a brand new album.
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