Cats of Transnistria, the duo of Tuomas Alatalo and Henna E. Hietamäki, have announced their first new full length in almost six years. IV will come out through Soliti Recordings on March 21st, 2025. Horrors, the first example from the album, arrives with a video filmed by Janne Immonen and edited by Henna E. Hietamäki.
Horrors is a rather melodic and all around cinematic expression which finds the duo making great use of rhythm and bass.
Tuomas explains: “Moodwise "Horrors" draws inspiration from The Terminator 2: Judgement Day Theme. A mechanical beat pulses slowly under lush and ethereal layers of guitars and synthesizers.”
Henna adds: “While writing the lyrics I was thinking about the growing effects of the climate catastrophe, the global rise of fascism, the walls protecting inequality and the unknown future of the new generation.”
Henna comments on the entire album: “We are very excited and proud to finally release new music. We were hibernating for a while, and after the pause it's been very inspiring and fun to create something different together. The songs still sound distinctly like Cats of Transnistria, but the beats and the fuller production make a big difference to our previous albums. You can almost dance to some of the songs, although very, very slowly.”
“Not having to think about how to be able to do these live while writing music gives a lot of freedom. Having beats and all kinds of synth and bass tracks made the whole process very different compared to previous Cats albums. And it feels that we have taken our thing (and dramatism) to a new level. It definitely still sounds like Cats of Transnistria. Basically we're just digging deeper,” Tuomas concludes.
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