SHAPE OF DESPAIR: New Album Details Revealed

June 3, 2005

Finnish doom/death metallers SHAPE OF DESPAIR, the band featuring ex-AMORPHIS/current AJATTARA singer Pasi Koskinen, will release their new self-titled album on August 3 via Spinefarm Records. The low-priced CD will feature rare and unreleased material from the group, including tracks from the band's first demo, "Alone in the Mist", and a new song called "Sleeping Murder", which was recorded over a four-day period late March at Sundicoop Studios in Savonlinna, Finland.

"Shape of Despair" (view cover here) track listing:

01. Sleeping Murder
02. Night's Dew
03. Sylvan-Night
04. Quiet These Paintings Are - Outro
05. Woundheir
06. To Adorn
07. In the Mist

Total running time: 63:42

SHAPE OF DESPAIR's third album, "Illusion's Play", was released in Europe last September through Spikefarm Records. The follow-up to 2001's "Angels of Distress" was recorded at Hellhole studios in Helsinki, Finland. The CD will receive a U.S. release on August 9 through Season of Mist via Caroline distribution.

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