Congratulations to the Finnish band Marianas Rest for reaching #3 in the official physical album charts and #45 in the official (digital + physical) album charts in Finland! The album“The Bereaved” was released worldwide on January 16, 2026 on the German label Noble Demon. The album consists of 10 tracks full of deep melancholy with reference to the Baltic Sea.
Hailing from the south-eastern Finnish city of Kotka, the band was founded in 2013 and has since become an authority in the world of melancholic death metal. Their music is heavy and unhurried, combining elements of doom, death and post-metal to create a sound that is both crushing and beautiful.
From the dark shores of the Baltic Sea, Marianas Rest channel the deep melancholy of their homeland. Hailing from the south-eastern Finnish city of Kotka, the band was founded in 2013 and has since become an authority in the world of melancholic death metal. Their music is heavy and unhurried, combining elements of doom, death and post-metal to create a sound that is both crushing and beautiful.
Marianas Rest don’t just write songs – they create moods: haunting, immersive and emotionally harrowing. A journey into darkness that feels strangely both familiar and reassuring. Over the course of four albums“Horror Vacui” (2016),“Ruins” (2019),“Fata Morgana” (2021) and“Auer” (2023), the band has explored themes of isolation, despair and conflict with an uncanny sense of the moment. “Fata Morgana” was the final chapter of a trilogy written before the pandemic but released at its height. “Auer” was completed just before the outbreak of military unrest in Europe – a coincidence that seems too bizarre to be invented.
Marianas Rest ‘s fifth album “The Bereaved” is a deeply personal story about death and the many forms in which the end can appear. We meet the band in the midst of a memorial service, tormented by the questions of what one should or should not have done, as only the bereaved know them. Because sometimes pity is for the living and envy is for the dead. In such moments, the question arises: who is really more blessed – the deceased or the mourners?
As on her previous albums, the melodies are the key to a unique soundtrack for the ongoing battle against the black clouds that seem to gather around us all from time to time. The music of Marianas Rest, sometimes slow, deep and hard, sometimes a bit faster and more aggressive, undoubtedly contains that X-factor of Finnish DNA, combining melancholy and beauty on a level that makes your hair stand on end every time.
More information about the band: Marianas Rest
More information about the label: Noble Demon
