Immortal Souls is a melodic death metal band from Finland. Back in 1991 Imm… Read Full Bio ↴Immortal Souls is a melodic death metal band from Finland. Back in 1991 Immortal Souls was formed and until now they were known as one of the best kept secrets of the cold north. Immortal Souls plays fast paced, aggressive melodic death metal (self-described as Winter Metal) that is compared to bands such as Dark Tranquillity, Children of Bodom and older In Flames, yet without being a clone of any of these bands.

After some demos and EP's the first full-length album 'Under The Northern Sky' was released in 2001. The album was received very well by both the press and the fans.

Released in 2003, 'Ice Upon The Night' is the album that made Immortal Souls known to both sides of the Atlantic. It was released Europe by Fear Dark records and in North America by Facedown records, where it sold nearly 5,000 copies so far. After the release Immortal Souls toured Europe twice, playing festivals and clubs in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Norway. And of course they also played the famous Tuska Festival in Finland.

To please the fans who didn’t get hold of their older releases, Fear Dark re-released the complete history of Immortal Souls on ‘Once Upon A Time In The North’. This special 2-CD digipack includes their complete debut-cd ‘Under The Northern Sky’, their two sold-out ep’s ‘Divine Wintertime’ and ‘The Cleansing’ and some rare demo-tracks. Together with the old material two new songs can be found on this double-album.

In 2007, Immortal Souls signed a new recording contract with Dutch label Dark Balance Records, which would handle its future releases in Europe. The band also released 'Wintereich', their third full-length album. The album is a four-part concept album and has been well-received by fans thus far.

Frostmind
Immortal Souls Lyrics

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Cold January morning at the northern land
White frost embraces the dawn
Cold nature awaking under the veil of snow
With the first beams of light
Cold air not warming despite the light
As my breath vapors

Frozen northenr air - Northern frozen nature

Ice is all that remains of the flowing streams
Of bright and pure water
Ice covers the hills like a monument
For honor of the frost

Frostbite - on my skin the feel of winter - Frostmind
Frostmind - deep inside the cold lovebite - Frostbite

Crystallike shine on these towers of ice
Too bright for my eyes...

Light has taken my sight made me snowblind
As the vision I saw at the north
Light formed into a shape and offered a hand
To guide my blind eyes

Frostbite - on my skin the feel of winter - Frostmind
Frostmind - deep inside the cold lovebite - Frostbite

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Immortal Souls’ song “Frostmind” paint a vivid picture of a cold January morning in the northern land. The imagery is dominated by the frost that blankets everything in sight, from nature that is slowly awakening to the hills that are now covered in ice. The singer is so enveloped in the cold that they feel a frostbite on their skin, a cold and destructive force that they equate with love in the unique phrase “deep inside the cold lovebite.”

The second stanza continues the theme of ice as a frozen monument to honor the frost. The ice has replaced the once-flowing streams, and everything is frozen and crystallized. Even the light is too bright, and the singer has gone snowblind, unable to see anything apart from the vision they saw at the north, which, interestingly enough, formed into a shape and offered them a guiding hand.

Overall, the song is a haunting tribute to the overpowering force of nature, particularly in its colder forms. The lyrics convey a sense of awe and reverence for the vast, cold expanse of the northern landscape and the transformative power of winter.

Line by Line Meaning

Cold January morning at the northern land
A chilly morning in January in the northern region

White frost embraces the dawn
Dawn covered in a white layer of frost

Cold nature awaking under the veil of snow
Nature waking up in the snow's cover

With the first beams of light
As the sun rises

Cold air not warming despite the light
The air remaining cold despite the sunlight

As my breath vapors
Exhaling visible vapors due to the cold

Ice is all that remains of the flowing streams
Streams now frozen and converted to ice

Of bright and pure water
Previously clear and unpolluted water

Ice covers the hills like a monument
The hills covered with ice resembling a monument

For honor of the frost
A tribute to the cold winter

Crystallike shine on these towers of ice
The ice towers reflect a crystalline shine