TUOMAS SAUKKONEN
Lead / rhythm / acoustic guitars, drums & percussions,
bass, keyboards, dark vocals

MIKKO HEIKKILÄ
Clean vocals

JANICA LÖNN
Female vocals

ADDITIONAL DARK VOCALS

TOMI KOIVUSAARI (Amorphis)
VILLE SORVALI (Moonsorrow)
MYNNI LUUKKAINEN (Sotajumala)

The year 2008 started aeon of the black sun when the founder and sole member Tuomas Saukkonen decided to start a solo career beside the continuing leadership of Before The Dawn and The Final Harvest. The debut album “The Darkness Walks Beside Me” followed soon in the beginning of 2009 and was praised by critics and fans of majestic, melodic doom metal with death metal twist.

Few very carefully selected gigs were also played with session members and BLACK SUN AEON shared the stage with bands like Samael and did a powerful festival debut at Summer Breeze festivals. What many thought to be a simple side project and one time release has become a solid one man band and a sharpest blade in the musical armory of Tuomas Saukkonen.

Multi instrumental and highly productive “one man army” has also been recognized by Finnish metal fans since Tuomas was voted as 2# in musician of the year category in Finnish Metal Awards and new BLACK SUN AEON will only underline the strenght in songwriting, musicianship, production and vision when double album -ROUTA- is released in 1.4.2010. A massive theme album about cruel but beautiful Finnish winter including 2 albums in total lenght of 80mins.

The hardest winter in Finland in 40 years gave the best conditions to create my first theme album about this dark, cold but still very beautiful seasons that is one of the biggest influences in Finnish metal music in the melancholy side in my opinion. -40 degrees and 2 meters of snow in the worst areas gives a pretty good picture why Finnish men in music sometimes sound a bit gloomy

I got a bit carried out with the whole idea and ended up writing a double album since there was simply way too much material for one album. Also I wanted to divide the theme a bit and named the 1st disc as Talviaamu (=winter morning) and I wanted to paint a landscape of a majestic view with snow and ice, frozen forest and sun rising in horizon and so that album turned out very beautiful, massive, melodic and melancholic.

The 2nd disc Talviyö (=winter night) is as cold, dark, gloomy and cruel as a winter night in Finland can be. The albums differ from each others like a night and day but still tell the same story. The story of winter.

-Tuomas / Black Sun Aeon-