Songs / the story behind

Fold

Track 3 · debut album Buried Elsewhere
Released 14 August 2026 · 3:35
Words, music, bass: Kimmo Ihanus

A space journey. A ship folding through space toward the place where everything began, unseen and unheard, for one more chance to start again. The words are twenty years old. The riffs are twelve. They met on this record.

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The riffs

There is no special story behind Fold. I think the riffs, in all their simplicity, just work.

I have a lot of lo-fi recordings from the days it was made. This is one of them: our rock trio jamming the riffs in 2014, at my parents’ summer cottage here in Finland. One room, one recorder, the whole thing as it was.

Fold (cottage demo 2014) · 1:07 · three of us, one room

The words

The lyrics are older than the riffs. I wrote them in 2005 or 2006, and they were first meant for a different song: the bass-riff demo I called Space Odysseya, which years later became Buried Elsewhere. They never fit that riff. I hit the wall I often hit, and the song got parked.

The words did not. A little modified, they landed on these riffs instead. So Fold is where twenty-year-old lyrics and twelve-year-old riffs finally found each other, one track before the song the words were originally written for.

We arrive where everything
once began.
We’re given one more chance
to start again.

“Fold” is folding space. The bridge says it outright.

Lyrics

Verse 1Cell needles carve through flesh and mind Five hundred years just a heartbeat behind Light and time won’t escape from here We dissolve into nothing, wait don’t disappear ChorusWe journey through the great expanse of space No one sees us, no one hears a trace We arrive where everything once began We’re given one more chance to start again Verse 2Faster than light on a road full of void All meaning fades away as we race through the night A seamless spiral bends the weight of mass Immeasurable force pulls us toward the first breath ChorusWe journey through the great expanse of space No one sees us, no one hears a trace We arrive where everything once began We’re given one more chance to start again BridgeFolding inward, bending all that was Pulled toward the origin, toward the primal cause The universe is breathing hold on, hold on Final chorusWe make this journey only for you No one sees us, no one hears us through

How it got here

2005–2006The space-journey lyrics are written, for a song that does not exist yet.
2014The cottage jam. Three of us at my parents’ summer cottage, running the riffs. Recorded on the spot.
2016The words are tried on the Space Odysseya riff. They will not fit. That song is parked and later becomes Buried Elsewhere.
14 August 2026Fold is released as track 3 of the Cometfall debut album Buried Elsewhere, the words reworked to sit on the 2014 riffs.
26 September 2026The 2014 recording goes up on SoundCloud, as it was.

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