EBM

Jay Ray is a solo artist, DJ/Remixer etc., from Finland, who used to be in bands prior to launching a solo career some five years ago. He’s got a few soft releases to his name including a remix of a Serj Tankian song, which Tankian himself signaled out in a competition as a winner, as well as more recently when during the summer Poets Of The Fall,vocalist Marko Saaresto laid vocals on a JR single by the name of “Striven”.
 

I really admire a band wanting to experiment, but what I really admire way more is a band managing to successfully pull of any experimentation that they might set out to do. The normal MO of Crematory dictated the combination of extreme forms of death metal and gothic overtones at first. With time, the style changed progressively to a more commercial and accessible rock/metal with gothic element, but the occasional growl vocals. In recent years the band has even experimented ever so slightly with dance forms like on 2004’s “Revolution” without completely abandoning their former style.
 

Originally envisioned to be released in 2006, the third part of 8th Sin’s trilogy, “Cosmogenesis” finally saw the light of day six years later, in 2012! The band consists of the frontman IT (Vondur, Ophthalamia, Abruptum, War), Michael Bohlin (Pain) on guitars/programming, Johan Husgafvel (Pain) on bass and Zacharias Ahlvik on drums. There’s quite many guest appearances by known members of the metal scene such as: Joacim Cans, Pontus Norgren, Peter Tagtgren, Joacim Thenander, Magnus Lundkvist, Catherine Forsberg, Eric Rivers, Martin Boman, Anders Olsson, PM Saari, Ira Keelyn, Alexandra Balogh, Kimmy Bohlin & Joacim Lundberg.