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Sunday, December 7, 2025
SLAGMAUR: SET TO UNLEASH "HULDERS RITUAL", POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "HULDERGEIST"
Norwegian black metal warriors SLAGMAUR have posted a video for "HULDERGEIST", a track from the bands anticipated new release "HULDERS RITUAL", due to be unleashed 2/27/2026 via PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS.
SLAGMAUR have posted "THE MAKING OF THE GREAT DECEPTION PROMOTIONAL STUNT"...
SNORRE RUCH of Norwegian black metal warriors THORNS went on a hiking
trip with GENERAL GRIBBSPHIISER of SLAGMAUR and have yet to return..
Now,
CHAOSSZINE reports a third person is missing in the mountains outside
FOSEN, NORWAY as a house was found with traps smelling of sulfur..
A
volunteer firefighter fell through the trap of the house as the cabin
has been cordoned off as evidence in an investigation. .
Now SLAGMAUR have released a statement that the missing black metal hikers was a promotional stunt.
SLAGMAUR unleashed "THILL SMITTS TERROR", 3/30/2017 via OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS.
FROM PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS:
SLAGMAUR reveal the stunning video single 'Huldergeist' featuring guest-vocals by Hoest (Taake), D.G. (Misþyrming), and Maria Charlotte Lund in collaboration with the dedicated channel Black Metal Promotion. The track is taken from the forthcoming new album "Hulders Ritual", chalked up for release on February 27, 2026.
With their fourth studio album "Hulders Ritual" ('Ritual of the Huldra'), SLAGMAUR break the chains of repetition and nostalgia by rewriting the rules of black metal. This does not mean abandoning the foundations of the genre, which is already indicated by working with the 'inventor' of the 'Norwegian black metal sound', THORNS mastermind Snorre W. Ruch, as an additional producer. The band's founder, General Gribbsphiiser, rather unafraid and with reckless abandon mutates and warps the traditional formula through a host of subtle innovations and tweaks of the classic sound. Although "Hulders Ritual" continues, refines, and widens the daring stylistic balance of SLAGMAUR's previous works, it adds an extra dimension of sardonic mania to its collection of sharp and vicious sonic instruments. Choice guest-contributions that include TAAKE vocalist Hoest, DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Silenoz, and MISÞYRMING frontman D.G., who cover three decades of Nordic black metal make a case in point. SLAGMAUR hail from Brekstad on the Fosen peninsula in the Trøndelag region and are a part of the Trondheim-based 'Nidrosian black metal movement'. Although Gribbsphiiser started the band as a solo project, he already recruited fellow musicians during the recording of his first demo, "Svin" (2006). SLAGMAUR's black avant-garde debut album, "Skrekk Lich Kunstler" (2007), marked the premier instalment in the still-unfolding series, "The Art of Olderman". The following studio albums "Von Rov Shelter" (2009) and "Thill Smitts Terror" (2017) continued this story arc. "Hulders Ritual" is for those, who are seeking musical darkness, magic, and the relentless breaking of limitations from black metal. SLAGMAUR push forward among the select few that are leading the way to the future of the genre.
