Wolfheart's 'Horizon On Fire' Takes Us Inside The Finnish Winter War Of 1939 To 1940

In April 2020, Finnish Heavy Melodic Death Metal band Wolfheart released their newest full-length album Wolves Of Karelia, via Napalm Records. They've now released a lyric video for their track "Horizon On Fire" from the new album.

The album Wolves Of Karelia explores the band’s previously coined genre of “winter metal” and the musical content is inspired by the Winter War waged between Russia and the band’s native country, Finland, which took place during the winter of November 1939-March 1940. Finland ultimately managed to stop the Russian troops from invading their country. 

Frontman Tuomas Saukkonen was inspired by the personal stories of local veterans, conveying the tales of what they experienced and survived from their perspectives.

Tuomas Saukkonen gives us some insight into the show and video, which draw on the events of the Finnish Winter War:

"Of the entire album, 'Horizon on Fire' is the song that best underlines how outnumbered the Finnish army was with only 32 tanks against over 2500 Russian tanks, 114 aircrafts against Russian 3800 aircrafts and manpower almost three times the enemy during one of the coldest winters of those times. I was born in the Karelian region and my father's family farm is only 7km from the border that was drawn after the war, so I also have a very strong personal connection to those historical events. So, lines like below were written purely to honor the sacrifice of the generation that fought the war.

In the shelter of the woods
Edges of lakes and fields ages have stood
Winters fury on our side
We can't be defeated
We have to hold the line

This lyric video was done by our graphics guy, Nikos Stavridakis of VisionBlack, who has done all of our album graphics for the previous three albums. We wanted to give him a bigger role and get him involved in our video production too so he could bring the album graphic work into life in video format, and underline the Finnish Winter War theme even more deeply."