The official soundtrack to rural noir thriller set in Newfoundland, Canada, scored by Mat McNerney and Kimmo Helén of the Finnish folk band Hexvessel.

McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures, Carpenter Brut) and multi-instrumentalist Helén collaborate with director Justin Oakey, marking their first full feature length soundtrack composition; a wild and evocative cross-pollination of Finnish and Newfoundland spirit.

A Fire In The Cold Season is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's western narratives (No Country for Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian), with a realistic, heavy paced mood where nothing is certain but the promise of despair in a violent world. The soundtrack is signature ritualistic Hexvessel - straining violins and rustic guitars, but also a new and mature flourish of restraint and minimalist beauty where disparate piano and solemn voices echo through the wilderness.

Inspired by Newfoundland folk music, Philipp Glass, Shigeru Umebayashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto, A Fire In The Cold Season is an elegant, romantic and suspenseful score which is as much a homage to the harsh and stunning nature witnessed in Oakey's visual landscape as Hexvessel's inherent nature mystic themes.

A journey from shamanic transcendence to heart-aching romantic mountain melancholy, McNerney and Helén creep out from outsider fringes of their humble underground origins to show their looming talents for commanding a vastly evocative and haunting cinematic story.

Ltd x 250 copies signed in a gatefold sleeve.