Laurenne / Louhimo -'Bitch Fire' (official music video)

Fire!
Fire!
Fire!

How can a dragon unite with its flame
Burning darkness right out of its place
How can a storm sit all silent so long
’Fore it rises and razes all those who deface

There’s no more time to hide out from
The mess we all have made

This is the bitch fire!
They burned us at the stake
We walked thru the flames with no pain
This is the bitch fire!
Here to make a claim
Life belongs to those who burn with grace

Something so ancient yet seems such a stranger
Looks like we got blatant and swayed
Drifting in dark we let fear choose our mark
Disregarding our heart though it beacons our way

There’s no more time to hide out from
The mess we all have made

This is the bitch fire!
They burned us at the stake
We walked thru the flames with no pain
This is the bitch fire!
Here to make a claim
Life belongs to those who burn with grace

We see woman against woman
And man against man
And we’re trying to understand
How in the hell did we let things get out of hand?

There’s no more time to hide out from
The mess we all have made

This is the bitch fire!
They burned us at the stake
We walked thru the flames with no pain
This is the bitch fire!
Here to make a claim
Life belongs to those who burn with grace

Την πρωτακούσαμε το 2008 στο τραγούδι των Dreamtale "No Angels No More" και στους Revolution Renaissance του Timo Tolkki (χορωδιακά φωνητικά στο μουσικό κομμάτι "Revolution Renaissance").

Ακολούθησαν το 2011 οι Amorphis ("The Beginning of Times") και οι Battle Beast (δεύτερα φωνητικά στα τραγούδια "Armageddon Clan", "Show Me How to Die"). Ο λόγος για την τραγουδίστρια και ηθοποιό Netta Laurenne, η οποία προ οκταετίας δημιούργησε τους Smackbound.

Η Noora Louhimo μας έρχεται επίσης από την Φινλανδία. Έγινε κυρίως γνωστή μέσω των Battle Beast, των οποίων την τραγουδίστρια αποτελεί από το 2012. Παράλληλα έχει εμφανισθεί -ως καλεσμένη (guest)- σε πληθώρα δίσκων συγκροτημάτων όπως οι Grave Digger, οι HammerFall, οι Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall, οι Crystal Ball, οι Heart Healer, οι Black Sun κλπ.

Προ τετραετίας, το 2019, οι δύο Φινλανδέζες τραγουδίστριες ένωσαν τις δυνάμεις τους δημιουργώντας το συγκρότημα Laurenne / Louhimo. Αποτέλεσμα της συνεργασίας τους ο δίσκος "The Reckoning" που κυκλοφόρησε πρόπερσι (Ιούλιος - Αύγουστος 2021). Στο album συμμετέχει μία... ντουζίνα προσκεκλημένων μουσικών!

Δελτίο τύπου: «The collaboration between powerhouse Finnish vocalists Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast) and Netta Laurenne (Smackbound) is easily one of the most exciting musical alliances ever put together by the Frontiers label.

The two ladies put together a storming melodic metal album with the collaboration of Nino Laurenne on guitars and Sampo Haapaniemi on drums.

Comments Netta Laurenne, "I’ve had the idea about a possible collaboration with Noora incubating for a few years. Once the pandemic started and cleared out calendars for both of us, it felt like a perfect time to reach out to Noora and start this project.

She is such a talented singer who masters various styles and on top of that, simply an awesome person. We are both initially from the same town, so it feels extra special to get us, two metal singers from Tampere, working together on an album full of kick ass metal.

This is also a collaboration with my husband, music producer, and guitarist (Thunderstone) Nino Laurenne, with whom I’ve written the songs for the album!"

Comments Noora Louhimo, "When Netta asked me to join in this project I was happily surprised. I had followed her as a singer for years and always admired her soulful and powerful vocals and her way of expressing herself.

Now that we have gotten to know each other a bit better through this project, it's been amazing to realise how much in common we have as singers and as people.

We both have similar idols and influences music wise and we both love singing with soul, blues, edge, and power. She's definitely my long lost soul sister and I'm super excited singing with her on an album filled with our explosive passion for music."»