Released by Puro Recordings in March 2026.

Following his brilliant but unrelentingly sorrowful previous album, Arvola returns with Silmät sulaa — a record he describes as “my summer album.” And of course, its warmth feels more like a heatstroke from a sun too close. 

Composed and produced over the course of two winter months in early 2024, Silmät sulaa began as an attempt to make something brighter, more hopeful. But instead of light, Arvola found complexity. The songs were written in chronological order, with side A threading luscious string motifs, and side B spiralling into more otherworldly, unstable terrain. LISTEN HERE

Released by Puro Recordings on LP in 2025, original release on cassette + digital in 2024 via Paa jotaki.

“Arvola’s sound world fully reveals itself through a thick forest carpet of electronic layers, ghost sounds, humming, buzzing, scampering, and the wind in the trees. By fully committing to the noises in his head, Arvola is able to take us with him to somewhere hidden and unique.” – The Quietus 

Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas is Pietu Arvola’s first album under his own name. The album was created during a year of loss and a remarkably grey time when most of the formerly distinctive seasons coalesced into a seemingly endless rainy period. LISTEN HERE

“The Finnish quartet fuse post-punk, cosmic music, and black metal into a heady brew that just gets weirder and weirder, deeper and deeper, darker and darker” -The Quietus album of the week 

The music of Musta Huone, Ville-Matti Koskiniemi (guitar & vocals), Joonas Paasiala (drums), Santeri Paasiala (bass), & Pietu Arvola (synths and noise) is difficult to pin down. What started off in mid-2010s as a primitive lo-fi duo drawing from punk and black metal influences, has developed into a free-roaming hybrid mutation soaking inspiration from kraut rock, 90’s alternative and noise rock and experimental electronic music. LISTEN HERE

2025
November 22 Ambient Bar, Helsinki
October 3, Wiljami, Rovaniemi
September 6 Siirtymä Ambient Festival, Tampere
July 19 Odysseus Festival, Helsinki
March 21 Pethaus, Tampere

2024
July 12 Mitäs Mitäs Mitäs, Urjala (Musta Huone)
April 13 Semifinal, Helsinki (Musta Huone)
April 5 Uus Laine, Tallinn, Tallinn Music Week (Musta Huone)
February 23 Vastavirta, Tampere (Musta Huone)
January 12 Torvi, Lahti (Musta Huone)

2023
December 15 Bar Loose, Helsinki (Musta Huone)
July 22 Odysseus Festival, Helsinki (solo)
July 15 UFOP, Oulu (Musta Huone)
June 16 Porvoon kulttuurilaiva, Porvoo (Musta Huone)
May 24 Siltanen, Helsinki (Musta Huone)
April 1 Varjobaari, Tampere (Musta Huone)
March 18 Ilokivi, Jyväskylä (Musta Huone)
March 17 Lepakkomies, Helsinki (Musta Huone)

2011–2022
Festivals such as Mitäs Mitäs Mitäs, Hiljaisuus Festival, Tallinn Music Week + gallery and venue shows with bands or playing solo in New York, Jyväskylä, Rovaniemi, Helsinki, Tampere, etc…