Puppe Magnetik releases new single ‘Act. XXII’ now ahead of debut album
Puppe Magnetik
The Finnish dark avant-garde project Puppe Magnetik, led by artist Aina Virtanen, has released a new single, “Act. XXII”, ahead of the debut album “Laudans Deum”. The album will be released on June 21, 2025, via Rune Serpent Europa with worldwide distribution through The Circle Music. The album is available for pre-save and pre-order.
“Act. XXII” is the opening track of the album “Laudans Deum”, which spans neofolk, dark ambient, death-industrial and experimental composition.
The album will be released as a limited vinyl edition: 100 copies on black vinyl and 200 on red vinyl. Each edition includes a standard cover, 30×30 cm insert, and a numbered sticker.
The track “Act. XXII” is available on digital platforms, and a video version can be viewed on YouTube.
About Puppe Magnetik
Puppe Magnetik is the artistic outlet of Finnish composer and vocalist Aina Virtanen. Classically trained in singing, violin, and piano at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Conservatory, Virtanen launched the project in 2022 following a creative retreat in Northern Finland.
Her work fuses dark experimental soundscapes with structured compositions.
About the aesthetics of using a nun, she says: “At a certain point I started dressing like a nun. Partly to hide from my bipolarism, partly because people liked it, they thought I was a real nun. And hot, too. How wonderful it would be to be a hot nun, everyone told me. I was already a subject under observation at that time, doctors admired me, I was already an interesting psychiatric case. Dressing like a nun gives me an aura of chastity, it’s like a soldier’s uniform. I’m a slutty nun.”
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