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Cry For Your Name
(music by: Esa Mikkola, lyrics by: Danae Komodromou)

Lyric video by Patrik Nuoreva / Perish Films (https://www.perishfilms.com/)

Scarlet Desire are DANAE KOMODROMOU: vocals, ESA MIKKOLA: guitars

"Cry For Your Name" was produced by Anssi Kippo and Toni Paananen.
Recorded by Anssi Kippo at Astia Studios (Studio A), Lappeenranta, Finland. (https://astiastudio.fi/)
Vocals recorded by Esa Mikkola at Vihti, Finland.
Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen at Jacob Hansen Studios, Ribe, Denmark (https://jacobhansen.com)
Cover artwork and logotype design by Gustavo Sazes (http://www.gustavosazes.com).

All music arranged by Esa Mikkola, Toni Paananen, Anssi Kippo, Co-arranged by Pekka Olkkonen.
All vocal melodies and additional choir arrangements by Danae Komodromou.
Drums by Toni Paananen. (https://www.youtube.com/user/DonZabal)

Bass by Anssi Kippo.
Orchestrations by Oliver Palotai. (http://www.palotai.de/)
Additional vocals by Heikki Pöyhiä.

CONTACT US:
http://www.scarletdesire.com
e-mail: [email protected]

SOCIAL MEDIA:
https://twitter.com/ScarletDesire1
https://www.instagram.com/scarletdesiremusic/
http://facebook.com/ScarletDesireMusic

 

Scarlet Desire is a Finnish-Greek symphonic metal band. It was founded by Esa Mikkola and Danae Komodromou in 2014 in London, UK. Danae, having studied piano and opera singing for more than 19 years, is an educated classical soprano and great composer. She has a Bachelor's Degree from Music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She started to compose instrumental music at the age of 11, mostly baroque and classical. Later she started to compose symphonic metal and connected with Esa, who started to help her with the songs. Esa has been playing guitar, keyboards and drums for 26 years. He has played in many metal bands, composed a lot of metal music and studied and worked with sound engineering, producing and mixing and mastering. This combination led to the release of the first single "Cry For Your Name" in 6.12.2019 and will follow-up with other releases in 2020.

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