Inspired by the alter ego of Finnish singer/performer Heidi Parviainen, Dark Sarah is a fantasy-horror extravaganza stuffed with all the cinematic, larger-than-life trimmings that symphonic metal has to offer. With the group’s newest album, Grim, out now via Napalm Records, Heidi and Dark Sarah are taking their conceptual threads to ever-higher levels with a new protagonist, Luna, and a surreal, mythic world of “orbs, ravens, rabbit-headed people, and Mörk.” The music is peppy metal with enough riffage and double-bass to please the metalheads and enough wackiness to please the fantasy lovers, plus the music videos look like they have one hell of a costume budget. As the band introduces their newest narrative concoction, we would be remiss not to give Parviainen a platform to expand on the ...
