Re Armed have put Downpour online, from Resonance, which Inverse Records releases in January.
It would be the fifth album from the band out of Kerava and the first since Ignis Aeternum in 2020, with Worldwide Hypnotize in 2012, Rottendam in 2014 and The Era of Precarity in 2016 behind those.
Six years between albums looks like a gap until you count what came out in them: an EP in 2022 and ten separate singles, three of them in 2024 and three more in 2025. The band has been releasing steadily and simply not collecting any of it, which is a way of working that did not exist when they started in 2001.
Jouni Matilainen has sung in the band since the beginning. Juhana Heinonen plays bass, Allan Välimaa guitar and Iiro Karjalainen drums, and the records have moved from the death and thrash of the demo years to the symphonic end of melodic death metal they work in now.