News: Signal Rex Presents Riena’s Debut EP “Miekka ja Varjo”

SIGNAL REX is proud to present RIENA’s striking debut mini-album, Miekka ja Varjo, on CD and cassette tape formats.

RIENA are a brand-new duo hailing from the ever-fertile Finnish Black Metal underground, with Woewrb Korpinsiipi of IÄTÖN among their ranks. Indeed, they’re rooted in a foundation as equally old as those labelmates, but their particular dungeon of Black Metal is that of the deepest French and Finnish scenes of the late ’90s: times of strife when the commercialization of “Black Metal” instigated in earnest a counterreaction of grim majesty. RIENA effortlessly conjure those same spells across their public debut, the six-song / 28-minute mini-album Miekka ja Varjo. With Woewrb on vocals and rhythm guitar and Draghn on lead guitar, bass, and drums, the two men whip forth an alternately galloping / surging storm of hatred and despair. Raw yet righteous and mastered at Trollhouse Audio, the MLP sounds exceptionally era-authentic, with the lead-work ever so subtly suggesting newer dungeons to spelunk. This is RIENA’s first possession!