Hanging Garden - Into That Good Night - CD

The second song of the album perfectly symbolizes the musicality
and aesthetics of HANGING GARDEN: ‘Fear, Longing, Hope And The
Night’.
The band from Helsinki plays with a certain melancholy,
disillusionment and gloomy structures, as well as with restrained
optimism, harmonies and an overall (dark) warmth.
The cautiously developed atmospheres are central to the group’s
new album “Into That Good Night”. During the time of their
existence, HANGING GARDEN, which were founded in 2004, have
developed a graceful and universal sound between dark rock and
doomy metal, which works through the transported moods, which
often resonate subliminally.
Following “At Every Door” (2013), “Blackout/Whiteout” (2015)
and “I Am Become” (2017), “Into That Good Night” is HANGING
GARDEN’s fourth album for German Lifeforce Records, the sixth
of the Finns in total. Riikka Hatakka has become an official band
member and naturally expands the possibilities with regard to vocal
expression and variability.
Singer Toni Toivonen explains his main ideas for the lyrics of “Into
That Good Night”, which, of course, are reflected in the music of
the new HANGING GARDEN album as well:
“With the times being what they are, the collapse of modern
civilization is beginning to look more plausible: mankind seems to
be doing its best as a species in making our habitat inhabitable for
ourselves.
Channeling the deep and numbing melancholy induced by our
present reality, HANGING GARDEN’s new album “Into That Good
Night” makes a journey to our near future, to a world where the
aforementioned collapse has recently taken place. How would we
survive? What would we hold dear, and what would lose its purpose?
The album portrays themes of loss, longing, death and hope through
narratives and musings of nameless, fictive survivors in a world
devoid of the safety brought by modern organized society, wealth or
civilization - a future that doesn’t seem so distant anymore.”