The stories behind the songs
Most Cometfall songs are older than Cometfall. They started as riffs and MIDI demos years ago, some of them twenty, and carried their working titles, wrong turns and borrowed lyrics with them. This is where they came from, one song at a time, in Kimmo's own words.
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Buried Elsewhere
A 2016 bass riff under a working title with a typo in it. Lyrics that would not fit and became another song. And a memorial to those buried elsewhere, in a churchyard in Laukaa, read from a cosmic angle.
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Fold
No special story, just riffs that in all their simplicity work. Three of us jamming them at a summer cottage in 2014, recorded on the spot, and twenty-year-old space-journey lyrics that first tried another song. With the 2014 recording.
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Cosmic Silence
Written from a dream: a huge, almost blinding comet through space, chaos and loud voices below orbit, silence above it. An old acoustic guitar piece rebuilt as reverb rock with a big chorus. Kimmo still does not know what the dream means.
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The Orange Jang
Named from the first riff recording in 2016 and never renamed. The most frustrating song to finish, a set of genie wishes (Muse, Tool, Karnivool; Dune) it does not quite grant, a decade-old cover and the music video built around it. With the 2016 demo.
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More to come. The rest of the debut album is next.