Dark Flowers is made from the love of neon lights, snow-covered spruce forests, and admiration for Depeche Mode. The music style could be called love rock or winterwave.
The best-kept secret of the Finnish gothic rock scene – Rain Diary – will release a new single, Dark Flowers, and celebrate it at the Hyena Go-Go club at Bar Loose on Friday, May 23. The band will head on a four-show Germany mini-tour with Florian Grey. The tour also marks a sweet reunion as Rain Diary toured Central Europe with Florian Grey exactly ten years ago.
Dark Flowers opens a new page in the rain diary, as Jaani Peuhu, who had produced the band for two albums and multiple singles, has stepped aside, and Timo Haakana, known for his industrial sound (including Cyan Velvet Project, The Fair Attemps), has taken over as producer. The modern organ sound will therefore be even more distorted in the future.
The change of producers has not changed the heart essence of Rain Diary. The band’s music still plays the soundtrack of foggy streets under neon lights, the nippy morning winds with the first rays of the rising sun, disappointments and lost loves, and quiet spruce forests covered under crystal snow. And the forever-love and dedication to Depeche Mode.
These are the tunes of winterwave.
RAIN DIARY
Rain Diary is a Finnish rock band that plays beautiful and twisted dark wave tunes. The band bears its roots in Finnish melancholy, the scenery of evergreen forests, nightless nights, and snow-covered wilderness, though the band constantly breaks this easily labeled “Finnish stereotype“ by breathing in something new. Rain Diary injects an urban feel with the drumming electronics and clever pop elements making the band a must-see for people who seek a snowy heaven from the world’s dark chaos. Rain Diary’s music genre has been labeled as “winterwave”.
Joonas Verho – Vocals
Tytti Toppari – Keyboard, Synths, Vocals
Joni Bitter – Guitar, Bass, Programming
Teemu Rantanen – Guitar
Lauri Kujasalo – Drums, Percussion