(((SIGNALS))) Meret – Breath of the Dying Sun
A signal comes before the full transmission. (((SIGNALS))) is Doomnation Radio’s space for bands to tell us about their new single and what it points toward: why this song came first, where it lives on the album, and what world it carries inside it. Three questions only, the rest is up to them.
In the closing chapter of The Time Machine (1895), H.G. Wells sends his traveler more than thirty million years into the future, to a stony beach beside a salt, tideless sea. A huge red sun hangs swollen overhead. Crab-creatures move slowly across green, lichenous rock. The traveler watches: the Earth ends, and someone is there to see it.
Meret‘s debut single inhabits that picture. “Breath of the Dying Sun,” out via Inverse Records on May 14, 2026, is the first release from the Finnish atmospheric metal band’s forthcoming self-titled EP. Meret was founded in Heinola in 2025. Its core is Mikko Kolari, Hanging Garden’s longest-serving guitarist, and Janne Jukarainen, who drummed on that band’s earliest records. Toni Hinkkala writes the songs and sings them. Pasi Löfgren plays bass. Meret answered our questions.
Answers: Toni Hinkkala (vocals, rhythm guitar)
(1) Why did you choose “Breath of the Dying Sun” as the single?
It felt like the most natural choice for us, and the song immediately felt important to me when I was writing it. We didn’t really overthink the decision, it just naturally became our debut single. The song combines clean vocals and harsher vocals in a way that reflects the atmosphere, emotion, and dynamics that define our sound, while also carrying a lot of the melancholy and emotional weight that feels essential to our music.
(2) What does this song open up for the EP?
It opens the emotional world of the EP in a very natural way. The song carries both the heaviness and the more fragile, melancholic side of our sound, and those elements continue throughout the EP in different ways.
(3) If this song were a scene in a movie, what happens in it?
It would feel like the quiet end of something important.
Someone standing alone in the last light of a collapsing world, witnessing the final breath of the dying sun. There’s sorrow in it, but also a sense of acceptance.
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