Vesperith — Dossier
Sariina Tani / Vesperith
Vesperith has been taking shape since 2014 and is the magnum opus of Finnish artist Sariina Tani, an ongoing act of channeling cosmic frequencies, infused with intentional ritualistic sound design, ambient textural landscapes, black metal and harsh noise. It is Cosmic Black Ambient. It is Meditative Chaos.
She writes and produces almost entirely alone. Songs start in fragments: a drone, a texture, a vocal idea formed in the dark, shaped less by a plan than by intuition, formed and reformed until something true emerges, something that feels right rather than something merely finished. The results often create a world, a scenery, rather than what is confined by the structural rules of modern songwriting. Art is Magick, and Vesperith's Magick is sound and resonance, its own dance of microcosm and macrocosm.
Vesperith's self-titled debut album was released via Svart Records in November 2019, co-produced with Jun-His (Oranssi Pazuzu, Waste Of Space Orchestra). The album and its accompanying "Quintessence" video drew coverage across the metal press, including Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, and Revolver, who premiered the "Quintessence" video as its first-ever screening anywhere.
Current Work
Vesperith is presently developing two concurrent bodies of work, working together as two swords: one of Void, one of Fire.
Framed as a corrupted transmission crossing over from outside this reality, CTRL+ALT+DEIFY treats noise and resonance as proof: evidence of a long-distance signal from our true home. Releasing in fragments, it is a command entered into the inverted construct: the sound of waking up inside the machine.
Zir Om, currently in composition, is the celestial counterpart to the Sword of the Void, a trilogy built for more conventional paths and physical release, carrying the frequency of sacred fire where CTRL+ALT+DEIFY carries the frequency of the Void.
These are the counterparts, the eternal dance of the manifested and the unmanifested.
Selected Press
- Revolver 2019 "See One-Woman Black-Metal Outfit Vesperith's Bewitching New 'Quintessence' Video" — world premiere of the video
- Metal Hammer / Louder 2020 "Vesperith: the unearthly visionary taking black metal into cosmic realms" — by Jonathan Selzer
- Kerrang! 2019 "Finnish Black Metal Oddity Vesperith's New Track Will Take You To Another Galaxy"
- Metal Insider 2019 Interview with Sariina Tani on Vesperith
- Metal In Metal Out 2019 "Exploring Metaphysics" — interview with Sariina Tani
- No Clean Singing 2019 Shades Of Black feature coverage
- Metal Temple Magazine 2019 Album review
- Svart Records Artist page
Press & Booking Contact
Promotional Photos
The full download below contains a much larger collection spanning prior releases. Updated promo materials for the current era are in progress.
