Biography
Pyhä Kuolema is a solo project of Mikko Pöyhönen. It was founded a while after the neofolk-duo Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa decided to quit. The ruins which Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa left behind were still smoking when something new, beautiful and fresh already began to grow from there. The death of the duo Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa was also the birth of Pyhä Kuolema - the birth of an extremely intimate, emotional, personal, and spiritual one-man project.
Traditional to the bone, but still clearly finding its own sound despite the classic ”man+guitar” approach, Pyhä Kuolema's debut album ”Saavun vaikken kulkisi” brings forth a dozen of atmospheric, national romantic, extremely emotional and personal songs sung in Finnish. The style of playing and singing varies from solemn ritualistic neofolk-songs to a troubadur-like playful approach to traditional folk.
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