Dark Sarah
| Dark Sarah | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Kerava, Finland |
| Genres | Symphonic metal, Gothic metal, Neo-classical metal |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Associated acts | Amberian Dawn |
| Website | www |
| Members |
Heidi Parviainen Sami Salonen Erkka Korhonen Rude Rothstén Thomas Tunkkari |
| Past members |
Jukka Koskinen Lauri Kuussalo |
Dark Sarah is a Finnish symphonic metal band created by Heidi Parviainen, after her departure from Finnish metal band Amberian Dawn in 2012.
Vocalist Heidi Parviainen started working on Dark Sarah's debut album Behind the Black Veil after having made the decision to leave her former band Amberian Dawn. When writing her first lyrics for the song Save Me, which is about a character named Sarah, who gets left at the altar by her fiancé, and runs off into the woods in tears, she eventually decided to make a concept album which would be about the dark side of Sarah. It was also then that she came up with the name of her project. To bring her project to the attention of audience, she asked musicians Kasperi Heikkinen, Teemu Laitinen and Jukka Koskonen to record the first two songs Save Me and Poison Apple for what would turn out into Dark Sarah's debut album Behind the Black Veil.
To finance the whole project, three separate indiegogo campaigns got started, which all received full funding by the fans. The cd would be recorded into three parts, called episodes, the first episode containing the first 4 tracks, the second tracks 5 to 8, and the third tracks 9 to 14. For promotional purposes the EP Violent Roses, which contained episodes 1 & 2, went on sale during Metal Female Voices Fest 2014. Only 250 copies got pressed, and all got signed by the then live line up.
In the meantime the rest of the recordings for Behind the Black Veil continued. On 27 September 2012 it got announced that Manuela Kraller (ex-Xandria) would participate in a duet for the song Memories Fall, as the Fate character. Two more collaborations got announced later on as well, on 13 January 2013 that of Inga Scharf (character Queen of No Good) and Stefan Schmidt from German metal band Van Canto for the song Evil Roots, and on 29 August 2014 that of Tony Kakko (character The Moon) from Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica for the song Light In You. Heidi completed the lyrics with the help of Emy Frost, Janne Storm and Perttu Vänskä, and the music with componists Emy Frost, Janne Storm, Mikko P. Mustonen and Stefan Schmidt. Guitarists Sami Salonen and Erkka Korhonen, drummer Lauri Kuussalo and bass player Jukka Koskinen got added to the official line up of Dark Sarah, which now had turned into a live band, with Heidi remaining the main figure. On the way, bass player Jukka Koskinnen left, and got replaced by Rude Rothstén, while on 29 April 2015 it got announced that drummer Lauri Kussaloit had left Dark Sarah to be able to concentrate more on his own music, and got replaced by Thomas Tunkkari. Video's for the songs Memories Fall (feat. Manuela Kraller), Hunting The Dreamer and Light In You (feat. Tony Kakko) got released.
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