Olso, Norway based black metal warriors DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "MøRKERE", unleashed 11/12/2021 via PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS.
FROM PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS.
DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN have been born out of friendship. Although the band
consists of veterans of Norway's black metal scene that have been or are
still members of such important names as DØDHEIMSGARD, ULVER,
SATYRICON, VED BUENS ENDE, and STRID that has never been their point or
an end in itself. Instead their focus lies entirely on creating the
music that they love and want to play. The Norwegians' debut
full-length, "Mørkere" (“Darker”) is a case in point. The perspective of
this album has, in the true spirit of black metal, expanded into
something that is bound to its roots yet at the same time reaches beyond
them. DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN started from the simplest of propositions:
two old friends, Haavard Jørgensen and Kai S. 'Cerberus' Halvorsen,
getting together over drinks and deciding to record a track together for
fun. Both had deep histories in Norway's second wave of black metal
that came to infamous fruition in the early 90s. Haavard had played in
the death metal band, ECZEMA, that went on to become SATYRICON, before
joining a then-nascent ULVER in 1993. Kai had been a sound engineer at
the S.R.F. Studio in Oslo that hosted bands such as DIMMU BORGIR, AURA
NOIR, VED BUENS ENDE, and DØDHEIMSGARD, briefly joining the latter on
drums for early rehearsals, before
returning as bassist on their 1998 EP, "Satanic Art". Initially for the
lyrics, the founding duo turned to Cerberus' old friend, former
bandmate and colleague at S.R.F., DØDHEIMSGARD frontman, Yusaf
'Vicotnik' Parvez – an artist whose continued presence in the black
metal scene has proved transformational. Both the band he’d fronted
since 1994 and the band he joined the same year, VED BUENS ENDE, had
morphed into volatile, avant-garde entities that wrote a strand of rogue
code that still lies embedded in the movement's DNA. Joined by latest
DØDHEIMSGARD recruit, NIDINGR drummer Øyvind Myrvoll, DOLD VORDE ENS
NAVN set about recording the debut EP, 2019's "Gjengangere I Hjertets
Mørke". It was in part a testimony to the scene that had defined their
youth. This is also true for the debut full-length. Yet although the
sound of "Mørkere" is rooted in 90s black metal, it veers off new sonic
terrain. The range of dynamics and textures throughout this album – the
dramatic escalations and the discipline with which they hold to a beat;
the utilising of mid-paced grooves made gripping by the conviction
driving them on; and the shifts in tone proving as unforced and holistic
as a weather front – are not just the mark of a band in full control of
their art but break new ground. There is no fake nostalgia to be had
from DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN. "Mørkere" is a contemporary Norwegian black
metal album with a proud heritage that stands on its own and is more
than ready to take the test of time.
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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-