A Fire in The Cold Season OST, by Mat McNerney & Kimmo Helén

A Fire in The Cold Season OST

by Mat McNerney & Kimmo Helén

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1.	Wilderness Opens 04:14	buy track
2.	Finding the Body 03:03	buy track
3.	Journey to her house 01:29	buy track
4.	Dark waters stir 01:35	buy track
5.	Fire fire 01:19	buy track
6.	As he leaves 01:29	buy track
7.	Awake inner mystery 02:11	buy track
8.	Mystery world darkens 01:02	buy track
9.	She is the whirlpool 02:35	buy track
10.	Darkness intensifies 02:44	buy track
11.	Romance of mystery 01:45	buy track
12.	Death clock 01:37	buy track
13.	A love complex 01:42	buy track
14.	Love is a corrosion 03:10	buy track
15.	Mystery shows teeth 01:41	buy track
16.	Vortex road 03:25	buy track
17.	Inner bloom 02:29	buy track
18.	Darkness sets in 01:32	buy track
19.	Death's voice 02:54	buy track
20.	Death's dance 02:03	buy track
21.	Death's dance Pt2 03:53	buy track
22.	Call from the dark 02:19	buy track
23.	Return to light 01:49	buy track
24.	Song of the wilderness 01:41	buy track
25.	Mat McNerney, Kimmo Helén - Barbara Allen 04:45	buy track

about

A Fire In The Cold Season, soundtrack to rural noir thriller from Newfoundland, Canada, scored by Mat McNerney and Kimmo Helén of the Finnish folk band Hexvessel.

McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures, Carpenter Brut, Me & That Man, ex-Code, ex-DHG) and multi-instrumentalist Helén have collaborated with director Justin Oakey before on a short film, but A Fire In The Cold Season marks their first full feature length soundtrack composition; a wild and evocative cross-pollination of Finnish and Newfoundland spirit. A Fire In The Cold Season is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s western narratives (No Country for Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, The Counselor), with a realistic, heavy paced mood where nothing is certain but the promise of despair in a violent world. McNerney and Helén’s soundtrack is signature ritualistic Hexvessel, straining violins and rustic guitars, but also a new and mature flourish of restraint and minimalist beauty where disparate piano and solemn voices echo through the wilderness.

Inspired by Newfoundland folk music, Philipp Glass, Shigeru Umebayashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto, A Fire In The Cold Season is an elegant, romantic and suspenseful score which is as much a homage to the harsh and stunning nature witnessed in Oakey’s visual landscape as Hexvessel’s inherent nature mystic themes. Fans of Hexvessel’s work will find much to delight in A Fire In The Cold Season’s occult and noirish atmospheres, and new-comers to McNerney and Helén’s work will enjoy being transported from shamanic transcendence to heart-aching romantic mountain melancholy. With an international premiere of A Fire in a Cold Season in Iceland, nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and featured on Netflix internationally, McNerney and Helén creep out from outsider fringes of their humble underground origins to show their looming talents for commanding a vastly evocative and haunting cinematic story.

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released February 3, 2023

A Fire In The Cold Season Original Soundtrack
Composed and performed by Mat McNerney & Kimmo Helén Additional guitars by Jesse Heikkinen
Barbara Allen arranged by Jesse Heikkinen
Recorded at Mökä Härlem
Mixed at Space Junk by Kimmo Nyssönen
Mastered at Orgone Studios by Jaime Gomez Arellano Recording assitance from Toni Ahonen

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Hexvessel Finland

Occult sound of the Finnish forest.

www.hexvessel.com

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May 17

Dynamo

Zürich, Switzerland
Aug 13

Rebellion

Manchester, UK
Aug 14

Fernhill Farm

Compton Martin, UK
Aug 14

Dust

Brighton, UK
Aug 16

Oslo

London, UK
Sep 28

halle02 - Old Location

Heidelberg, Germany
Sep 28

halle02

Heidelberg, Germany

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