Why release a double album when you can release a triple album? Swallow The Sun are being ambitious and have announced a massive release today, namely a triple album entitled Songs From The North I, II & III. The Finnish sextet's last album, Emerald Forest And The Blackbird, was released in winter 2012 and come November 2015, the long wait between recordings will finally be over.

Main songwriter and guitarist Juha Raivio comments on the triple album concept: "Making a triple album in this godforsaken digital and modern day and age... Many will say it's madness. I say it is to bring worth, heart and respect back into the music and to the album format where it belongs. This should never turn into a shallow fast food industry where music is only downloaded one song at a time. These albums hold life, death, gloom, beauty and despair in their deepest levels and forms. The three chapters are different but connected, one long journey through these songs written up here in the North. Music is holy, albums are holy. See you on the other side, friends."

Juha Raivio said of the new album: "The records are very different from each other, but still form one entity: one with respect for Swallow The Sun's traditions, the second beautifully acoustic, and the third a trip into funeral doom's dark world. I wonder if any Finnish band has previously released three new studio albums at the same time? This might be a historic release? I hope so."

More will be revealed about this upcoming triple album soon!

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Swallow The Sun