The band… Read Full Bio ↴Shape of Despair is a funeral doom metal band from Finland.
The band was founded in 1995 as Raven by Jarno Salomaa (guitars, later also keyboards), Tomi Ullgrรฉn (bass, later also guitars) and Toni "Otso" Mรคensivu (drums, later also vocals) as a faster, instrumental black metal-isch band following the footsteps of their contemporaries like Strid, Burzum, Darkthrone and Unholy. The trio soon realized that the music they played wasn't as good as they would have wanted, lacking the atmosphere and emotion of the bands that influenced them. They needed to either step up their songwriting game or try something else completely. During the summer of '95 Raven recorded their rehearsals with a simple cassette recorder, capturing all the songs that later became the Alone In The Mist demo, for the first time on tape. After listening to the rehearsal tape and realizing they actually had something in their hands they could stand behind, Raven wanted to record the tracks in a proper studio. It took the band three years to do it. Raven entered Arkki-studio in early '98. They still hadn't tried any vocals until the very last minute, when they decided they wanted to test how the songs would sound with Mรคensivu's vocals and were surprised how well they actually fit. The Alone In The Mist demo [1] was not released until 2016, when the band thought it was the proper time to do it. They changed their name in September 1998 to Shape Of Despair. The decision to change the name came down to basically not wanting to be confused with the UK hard rock stalwarts Raven. Obviously, their new moniker fit their new sound better too.
In 2000 they signed a deal with Spikefarm Records and released their debut album Shades of...with Samu Ruotsalainen on drums.
The second album Angels of Distress, released on September 2001, featured Pasi Koskinen on lead vocals. Sami Uusitalo joined up in 2002 to play bass for the third album Illusion's Play. It was released in 2004.
In 2005, the band released a compilation titled Shape of Despair, featuring rare and unreleased material from the group, including tracks from the band's first demo Alone in the Mist and a new song called Sleeping Murder, recorded over a four-day period at Sundicoop Studios in Savonlinna, Finland. After a 5-year lull the band released the EP Written in My Scars and a split EP with Before The Rain.
Their 4th full-length album Monotony Fields was released on June 15, 2015 by Season of Mist.
...to Live for My Death...
Shape of Despair Lyrics
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Soon leaving myself...
Into the spheres of emotions...
Emotions...
I thought...
There's nothing left for me,
Anymore... everything
Is gone.
To feel nor to understand.
I did not wanted
To live my life
Nor did I even wanted
To live for my death...
Strong it is indeed...
Life... strange to born for death...
The lyrics to Shape of Despair's song "...to Live for My Death..." revolve around the idea of the futility of life and the inevitability of death. The first part of the lyrics talk about how all life will be gone soon and the singer is leaving themselves to enter the realm of emotions. This could be interpreted as the singer giving up on the physical world and focusing on feelings and emotions instead.
The lyrics then go on to say that there is nothing left for the singer anymore as everything is gone. There is nothing left to feel or understand which could mean that the singer has reached a state of hopelessness and despair. The following lines are particularly poignant as they talk about not wanting to live their life or even living for their death which seems to suggest that the singer sees life as a burden and death as a release from that burden. The final lines of the lyrics are a reflection on the strangeness of life as we are born only to die and how strong this realization can be.
Overall, the lyrics paint a picture of someone who has given up on life and is resigned to their fate. The focus is on emotions and the meaninglessness of existence.
Line by Line Meaning
All life will be gone
The entirety of life will ultimately fade away
Soon leaving myself...
My own being will soon depart
Into the spheres of emotions...
I will be consumed by a range of feelings and sentiments
Emotions...
A cascade of intense and complex sensations
I thought...
I pondered deeply
There's nothing left for me,
There is no remainder of significance for me
Anymore... everything
No longer... all things
Is gone.
Have vanished without a trace
Nothing left
Nothing remains
To feel nor to understand.
To experience or comprehend
I did not wanted
I lacked the desire
To live my life
To exist through the passage of time
Nor did I even wanted
Nor did I have the inclination
To live for my death...
To anticipate or welcome the end of my life
Strong it is indeed...
A force that possesses remarkable might
Life... strange to born for death...
Life is perplexing in that it exists solely to conclude in death
Lyrics ยฉ Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JARNO SALOMAA
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@belych
ะัะตะฝั, ะพัะตะฝั ะบัะฐัะธะฒะฐั ะผัะทัะบะฐ!!! ะกะปะพะฒ ะฝะตั ะบะฐะบ ะบัะฐัะธะฒะพ!
@Tha3rdworldghost
Death is what we live for. I long for the day im old and grey on my death bed. Thanks so much Shape of Despair for making me realize this many years ago.
@RatsmithNZ
Even the horse is feeling the influence of DooM pure
@storoq
ะฟัะพััะพ ะพัะฟะฐะด, ะฟะพัะปััะฐะป- ะฒัะต , ะผะพะถะฝะพ ะฒะตัะฐัััั
@Tabu13r
ะฐ ะตัะปะธ ัะตะบััั ะธั ะฟะพัะธัะฐัั... ัะพ ะธ ะผัะปะฐ ะฝะต ะฟะพะฝะฐะดะพะฑะธััั! :-)
@storoq
Tabu13rย ะฟะตัะฐะปั ะถััะบะฐั , ะปัััะต ะฝะต ะฑัะฒะฐะตัย
@stevevondoom4140
whoever directed/produced this video did a really great job. this defi. captures the unspoken misery and hopelessness of peasant life, mashing and eating your food with your hands , no electricity etc... ย this is a true Doom that many in the world fear to ever know.... ย ย thanks for posting this.
@wyrd_official
The scene at the table hit me. The guy just kind of picks at it, and leaves it unfinished, like there's just no joy in eating. He does it because he has to, and beyond that he just wants solitude with his misery. I've definitely felt that level of depression, so it strikes me to look at. I feel as though I looked into a mirror.
@eduardoguimaraes6009
Essa mรบsica sempre toca no fundo da minha alma! Shape of Despair รฉ muito foda!๐ค
@petrspongr1839
Velmi silnรฝ zรกลพitek, tento klip. Mazec ๐๐๐๐