{"id":19837,"date":"2026-05-06T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19837"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:59:58","slug":"finnish-doom-metal-musician-harri-kauppinen-introduces-his-new-post-metal-project-abandoned-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19837","title":{"rendered":"Finnish doom metal musician Harri Kauppinen introduces his new post-metal project Abandoned Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Harri-Kauppinen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19838\" style=\"width:333px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Harri-Kauppinen.png 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Harri-Kauppinen-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p id=\"x_isPasted\"><strong>Abandoned Ocean<\/strong>&nbsp;is a new project that introduces the English written material by Finnish post metal \/ doom metal artist&nbsp;<strong>Harri Kauppinen<\/strong>.&nbsp;Now released debut release&nbsp;<em>Inner Dusk -EP<\/em>&nbsp;could be described as post-metal. Kauppinen once again combines elements of lo-fi and doom into his intimate singer-songwriter style.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The last time my music was released was in 2016. After a long break, it&#8217;s great to see that I still get excited when a whole (and damn dark) song is built out of total emptiness. It&#8217;s one of the greatest experiences music offers me.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;-Harri Kauppinen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check the lyric video of the track &#8220;Unpleasant Light&#8221;:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"ABANDONED OCEAN - Unpleasant Light (LYRIC VIDEO) \" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uNxmYTPN70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the EP on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music etc.):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/3klo3.r.sp1-brevo.net\/mk\/cl\/f\/sh\/1t6Af4OiGsEagCYT4uMmDwh0UcVF7S\/mwcsb61a8d06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/push.fm\/fl\/abandonedocean-innerdusk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the EP&#8217;s music was written by Harri Kauppinen, there&#8217;s also other players involved:&nbsp;<strong>Teemu Liekkala<\/strong>&nbsp;(Rioghan, Red Eleven),&nbsp;<strong>Otto N\u00e4rhi<\/strong>&nbsp;(Psychework, Nestruction) and producer&nbsp;<strong>Hiili Hiilesmaa<\/strong>&nbsp;(Kypck, Swallow the Sun, HIM).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These four gentlemen last came together on a unifying theme in 2016, when Kauppinen&#8217;s debut solo album,&nbsp;<em>Helvetin laulut<\/em>, was released. Not forgetting the fact that Kauppinen, Liekkala and N\u00e4rhi share a common history from 2005-2014, when they were part of the dark metal band&nbsp;<strong>Beyond The Dream<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inner Dusk<\/em>&nbsp;is a narrow passageway into a gloomy world, but one where there is hope for a way out. Step inside. You can come back if you want, but before you do ; close your eyes and immerse yourself in the inner dusk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abandonedocean.com\">https:\/\/www.abandonedocean.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abandonedocean.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/abandonedocean.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abandonedocean_official\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abandonedocean_official<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/abandonedocean\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/abandonedocean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned Ocean&nbsp;is a new project that introduces the English written material by Finnish post metal \/ doom metal artist&nbsp;Harri Kauppinen.&nbsp;Now released debut release&nbsp;Inner Dusk -EP&nbsp;could be described as post-metal. Kauppinen once again combines elements of lo-fi and doom into his intimate singer-songwriter style.&nbsp; &#8220;The last time my music was released was in 2016. After a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19837\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finnish doom metal musician Harri Kauppinen introduces his new post-metal project Abandoned Ocean<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19839,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions\/19839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}