CERESIAN VALOT premiere the video clip ‚Ajattomuus / Rajattomuus‚ („Timelessness / Infiniteness“) as the first single taken from the forthcoming debut full-length „Uumen“ („Depths“). The first album of the Finnish heavy alternative band that is rising from the ashes of GHOST BRIGADE and based in the city of Jyväskylä has been slated for release on May 23, 2025.
Ceresian Valot – Ajattomuus / Rajattomuus [Official Lyric Video]
Wille Naukkarinen writes: „Our first single ‚Ajattomuus / Rajattomuus‘ quite sets the tone for both the album and Ceresian Valot as a band“, the guitarist and main songwriter explains. „When Ghost Brigade went on an indefinite hiatus in 2015, it was quite a challenging time for me. Playing in bands had been my life since I was a teenager and suddenly I was without that element in my life. Feeling lost and having an identity crisis at the same time. For many years, I did not touch a guitar and I believed that playing in bands was over for me. With time, wounds started to heal. I grabbed my guitar and slowly started writing again. Some of the first riffs that I wrote back then are featured in this song. When I completed the instrumental version and sent it to the other guys, I thought that I might have written the best piece of music of my musical journey so far. This song became a gateway for me getting musically active again. It has many familiar characteristics that I often use in my compositions: Sabbath’ian undertones, sludgy doom, tons of cold Northern melancholia, and delicate, fragile quietness.“
Joni Vanhanen adds: „The electronic beats in the middle part of ‚Ajattomuus / Rajattomuus‘ contain certain elements that are a tribute to Massive Attack’s ‚Mezzanine‘ which is an important record to some members in the band“, writes the keyboard player. „With my roots in 90s trip hop and instrumental hip hop, this was a very interesting experiment and turned out quite awesome as combining acoustic drums with electronic beats can be quite challenging.“
Panu Perkiömäki concludes: „The lyrics of ‚Ajattomuus / Rajattomuus‘ are inspired by the Ouroboros symbol, which depicts a serpent that is eating its own tail“, the vocalist reveals. „This song revolves around the eternal cycle of life and how by some means everything is connected, death is followed by birth, separation is followed by unification and so on.“
