Norwegian Avant-garde Black Metal masters DØDHEIMSGARD, will release their new album, “Black Medium Current”, on April 14th via Peaceville Records. The band share its exceptional first single, “Abyss Perihelion Transit”. The ten minutes plus track weaves a sombre tapestry incorporating elements of multiple sub genres in the world of Extreme Metal and thematically tackles ideas of epistemological dualism.
Vocalist/guitarist Vicotnik comments on the song: “The whole album revolves subjectively around perception, experience, psychology, objective/subjective reality vs external pressure, tropes, taboos, the laws of motion/causality which influences one’s life. The subjective perception of reality vs the objective causal effects of reality and how they are bound interact. Epistemological dualism.”
Vicotnik continues: “I guess mental health, or rather instead of health, let’s call it mental condition is a big topic on this record. Not as in a complaining way, or as a good or bad notion, but rather a subject’s study of his own psychology (en)during everything.
Like the ambiguity of Being. What is Being? Is it a meta-physical stratum of subjective emotionally fuelled notions or is Being just explaining a physical object that is, therefore being. Epistemologically I guess these lyrics dwell a lot on naïve realism vs representational realism. Cognitivism vs behaviourism, and then bringing it all to an artist context obviously. So, it is experiential renditioning, not solution driven.”
Accompanying the single is a video and single cover art from visionary artist Costin Chiorenau who brings the disparate and incredibly solemn existence of Black Medium Current’s first single to life. Working together both the song and the video evolve over the course of the ten-minute run time to create something truly visionary both in a sonic and visual context.
“Black Medium Current” continues on the path set by 2015’s monumental and universally lauded “A Umbra Omega” album; itself a deeply poignant and potent release of vast maturity and insight. As is the questioning nature of DØDHEIMSGARD , the band explore ideas in which trying to free oneself from a state of existential despair and confusion we in turn relinquish our own freedom. Suggesting that confusion and despair, however hard they may be to endure, are in a philosophical sense necessary told to question one’s own intellectual honesty.
Recorded during the end of 2021 and beginnings of 2022, with production duties being handled by Vicotnik. Engineered and mixed by Matias Aaveren at Top-Room Studios. Mastering by Charis at Feedback Studios with additional help by Pavlos.
Outside of traditional bass guitar duties Lars Emil Måløy lends his talents on piano, cello and theremin on “Requiem Aeturnum” as well as flute by STTNG on “Et Smelter”.
“Black Medium Current” track listing:
- Et smelter
- Tankespinnerens smerte
- Interstellar Nexus
- It Does Not Follow
- Voyager
- Halow
- Det tomme kalde morke
- Abyss Perihelion Transit
- Requiem Aeternum
You can wath the official video for “Abyss Perihelion Transit” below:
