Laurenne / Louhimo - 'Striking Like A Thunder' (official music video)

See how strong the clouds seem tonight
I think it’s gonna rain later on
Maybe we should look for a shelter
Wait it out

But what if all the water revives us?
Clearing out the past from our backs
Maybe we should let this storm guide us
Lose our tracks

We should hold on to magic
There’s so much to be gained
I refuse to live up to the norm of constrain

Striking like a thunder
Never giving in to all this pain
Not ready to blunder
I didn’t just break my heart in vain
Striking like a thunder
I’m going to burst into the sky

No one really knows what we’re after
Invited here blinded by scars
Slowly clearing layers well crafted
Seeing it all

Now we hold on to magic
There’s so much to be gained
I refuse to live up to the norm of constrain

Striking like a thunder
Never giving in to all this pain
Not ready to blunder
I didn’t just break my heart in vain
Striking like a thunder
I’m going to burst into the sky

I’m willing to sacrifice
So many things in my life
For trying to hold on to the truth
And I pay for all the times I felt too afraid
This time I won’t make the same mistake again

We hold on to magic
There’s so much to be gained
We refuse to live up to the norm of constrain

Striking like a thunder
Never giving in to all this pain
Not ready to blunder
We didn’t just break our hearts in vain
Striking like a thunder
Using all our power to arrange
A chariot of wonder
Stop letting our lives go down the drain
Striking like a thunder
We’re going to burst into the sky

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."»