Sunday, June 22, 2014

KING OF ASGARD: SET TO UNLEASH "KARG"

Swedish melodic, Viking metal warriors KING OF ASGARD have announced the street date and tracklisting for the bands anticipated third release "KARG", due to be unleashed 7/18/2014 (G.A.S. territories), 7/21/2014 (EUROPE) and 7/22/2014 (NORTH AMERICA) via METAL BLADE RECORDS.






KING OF ASGARD unleashed "...To North" 7/31/2012 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.





FROM METAL BLADE RECORDS:
King of Asgard (official)'s new album 'Karg' is almost upon us!
Stream "The Runes Of Hel" and pre-order herehttp://www.metalblade.com/kingofasgard
Album out 18th of July in the G.A.S. territories and the 21st of July in the rest of Europe. North America will have July 22 as the release date.
"Karg" is the third album of KING OF ASGARD, following "Fi'mbulvintr", which was released in 2010 and "...to North" in 2012.
"Karg" has again been recorded with Andy LaRocque at the infamous Sonic Train Studios. Comments Jonas Albrektsson and Karl Beckman: "After well over a year of intensive writing, we finally reached the point where everything is put into finish. When countless hours of hard work and careful consideration has been completed. This completion, being our third album which at an early stage was titled to "Karg", in English, "Barren". A word which later on came to form the atmosphere of the whole album and a sense that meanders through more or less all the material. It's darker, it is harsher and more stripped down than our previous releases. More mature, precise and well thought out. A challenge both for us as well as for the observer. Lyrically, we have come closer to our own immediate surrounding and ancestral heritage, based on old legends and tales from our home region, a tribute to our fair and historical countryside. Yet again everything was recorded and mixed in Sonic Train Studios with Andy LaRocque at the helm assisted by Olof Berggren. Even in the phase of recording we used the word Karg as a guideline... and thus, it is upon thee!"
"Karg" track listing:
1 The Runes of Hel
2 The Trickster
3 Highland Rebellion
4 Remnant of the Past
5 Omma
6 The Heritage Throne
7 Huldran
8 Rising
9 (bonus track) Total Destruction
The band's two previous, critically acclaimed albums are available worldwide on Metal Blade Records. Listen to the band on iTunes and Spotify to hear what Terrorizer Magazine called "intense blackened folk metal".
KING OF ASGARD:
Karl Beckman - Guitar, Vocals
Jonas Albrektsson – Bass
Lars G Tängmark – Guitar
Karsten Larsson – Drums

VIDEO BELOW: KING OF ASGARD: "THE RUNES OF HEL" (COURTESY OF METAL BLADE RECORDS): 


 Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

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