I Am The Night announce debut album ‘While The Gods Are Sleeping’

I AM THE NIGHT have announced their debut album!

Titled While The Gods Are Sleeping, the upcoming album from the Finnish black metal band is their debut full-length record and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Svart Records.

The band features Markus Vanhala [INSOMNIUM, OMNIUM GATHERUM], Janne Markkanen [ex-OMNIUM GATHERUM], Okko Solanterä and Walteri Väyrynen [PARADISE LOST, BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT].

“Black metal art has been a continuous and serious pursuit in my personal life since my early teenage years,” explains guitarist Vanhala about the upcoming debut album. “In The Nightside Eclipse, Storm Of The Light’s Bane and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas opened the gate to the dark side for me years ago, as can be heard from the music we make with I AM THE NIGHT. Our debut record, the result of a yearning for ancient darkness, turned out to be just the time capsule we wanted it to be, far removed from modern metal. I’ve seldom found anything interesting in post nineties black metal. We wanted to realise this in the underground way that felt fitting to the music, and chose to work with Svart Records.”

Vocalist Solaterä adds, “our songs are stories about the worship of night and the triumph of the powers of darkness. At night, sun to his slumber and shadows all over, the forces of the night rise to the heavens, cast angels out and usher in a new era of individual freedom. I AM THE NIGHT is a real band not a project. It is unrestrained creation. A ray of darkness for us in the vacuum created by the pandemic. The future remains unseen, and all the better for it.”

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming debut album; Ode To The Nightsky. The new song is the second single to be released from the forthcoming debut, following on from Hear Me O’ Unmaker, which was released in May last year.

Watch the official music video for Ode To The Nightsky here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming debut album below:

Track List: 

1. While The Gods Are Sleeping…
2. Hear Me O’ Unmaker
3. Dawnbearer
4. Ode To The Nightsky
5. I Am The Night
6. The Owl
7. Among The Unseen Ones
8. Holocaust Of The Angels

While The Gods Are Sleeping is set for release on May 6th via Svart Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on I AM THE NIGHT like their official page on Facebook.