Salutations MadScientist,
It’s true i’ve seen “Into Darkness” promotion which included a skeleton with red eyes, yes. This only confirms the progression towards northern cultural references as explained by Tomi Joutsen in intervew, as i recall, about “Kalevala” as their inspiration for some lyrical content belonging to the “Epic Poem of Finland” category. It generated beautiful pictures to match what i view as love songs for a doomed couple, if i may say so. Only it turned out to be for real and that’s one truly sad side of their story.
It’s probably not verbatim but that would be from “Legend”, a film with music by Brian Ferry:
YouTube: Bryan Ferry - Is Your Love Strong Enough (Legend soundtrack 1986)
With magical beings, a couple of unicorns, a sacred ring, malefic demons…
Yet, the way i perceived this Finnish guitarist-composer’s professional progression (respectively to the announced topic) has to do with evolving through serving the artistic work of Aleah and reciprocally. The “miracle” resided in the duo merging their forces over a new project, that of Aleah initially, but also quite likely a therapy for all those who made Aleah’s albums possible afterward. Too late for her to see its mediatic release, which was the begining of a descent, still in compliance with the main topic. In other words Juha Raivio climbed a few steps with guidance from his beacon “light”, or “sirene”… That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it’s now over and everything must have seemed colour-dull and futile since then. Go figure if he can ever hope to recover and start to climb the stair again, as a complete artist himself.
Good day, have fun!! 