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Scarlet - Circle of Bones - Reviewed By Metal Digest! Thursday January 26 2023, 12:30 PM

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Scarlet - Circle of Bones - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2023/01/02/scarlet-circle-of-bones/

Cast your eyes over and out towards the cold sea as the rain lashes down around you. From a bar on the dockside comes the punkish tones of grunge, but this isn’t Seattle, this is Helsinki, and that grunge sound is Scarlet. It may have been 25 years in the making but finally, Scarlet are delivering their debut album ‘Circle of Bones’.

As an album, ‘Circle of Bones’ would easily convince somebody that this album was released in 1996. This is a warm, familiar album of nostalgic sounds as alternative rock from a different era comes knocking. What Scarlet deliver here isn’t an album of en vogue ‘grunge’ covered in pastel colours of a TikTok generation, this is old school alt rock drenched in plaid and self-loathing. Therefore, these Finns have all the likeability of Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam, but also pushes into the post grunge areas of Creed, Live and early Nickelback particularly as vocalist Ville Tuomi doesn’t half do a decent impression of Ed Kowalczyk. Furthermore, this is not a release which isn’t afraid to get heavy and at its darkest and most bowel rattling, ‘Circle of Bones’ touches on the heaviest of Alice in Chains and even Type O Negative and Soundgarden.

There isn’t anything here that grunge hasn’t done before which means it won’t suddenly cause a conversion to the genre; but those versed in the ways of alt rock should check this out because it really does a veteran quality to it. - Metal Digest

Release Date: 11.11.2022

FFO: Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Type O Negative, Black Sabbath

Location: Helsinki/Finland

Scarlet is a Grunge band from Eastern Finland founded in 1999. The band returned from over 10 year hiatus in 2015. First few years band just keep on playing since long brake had rusted their skills. Soon the groove was found and the band noticed that they were making an album. Songs just keep coming. Long hiatus had made their sound even stronger.

The debut album “Circle of Bones” pops out in 11/11/2022. It’s a package full of rough energy for the Grunge era music fans. Authentic music with strong vocals and real feelings.

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The album was recorded, mixed & mastered in ten days @ Astia Studio by Anssi Kippo (Children of Bodom, Ensiferum, Impaled Nazarene etc) as analog recording. Everything you hear is real man made sounds. No computers were harmed in the making.
 
Album comes out in three different vinyl colors and it’s a full analog recording. Also full analog chrome tape is available + cd and streaming. All this via Inverse Records.