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Icelandic pagan/black metal trio Fortíð has unleashed the video single and video, "Uppskera" (Harvest) - the first taste from the forthcoming new full-length, Narkissos, slated for release on 13 October via Prophecy Productions.
In further news, parallel to Narkissos, a 3CD artbook, Völuspá, featuring all three albums of the original trilogy, will be released. Each album comes with three bonus tracks, and the book includes, among other items, introductions by Einar "Eldur" Thorberg Guðmundsson and Kári Pálsson and all lyrics in original language and English translations.
Fortíð's mastermind Einar Thorberg Guðmundsson comments on "Uppskera": "This song opens up with the final verses in Gestaþáttur from Hávamál. The poem translates something like this: 'Cattle die, kindred die / You yourself die / But reputation never dies / Of one who has earned it. / Cattle die, kindred die / You yourself die / But I know one thing that never dies / And that's a dead person's deeds'. The song continues by journeying into the mind of a man with a ruined reputation from his past deeds. And as the title 'Uppskera' (Harvest) suggests, this man is reaping as he sowed, but he blames all his misfortunes on others. His name will not be honoured after he is gone from this world".
For anybody following the now over 20-year-long career of Fortíð, the writing of not just a great but an all-around outstanding album to come has always been visible on the wall. With their seventh full-length, Narkissos, the Icelandic trio has finally done it and delivered a masterpiece that should easily make it into the top part of those end-of-the-year lists.
Lyrically, Fortíð remains on an Old Norse and pagan course, although the album title refers to the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus, a Boeotian hunter renowned for his beauty, who fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water. Guðmundsson has woven yarn in a Nordic context about a character with the so-called narcissistic personality disorder that runs as a red thread through Narkissos. The album depicts his lifespan from a young and violent person who plays with people like pieces on a chess board. When his true nature becomes apparent, he becomes angry, paranoid, and full of self-pity until he ends up as an old, lonely man whom everyone has long abandoned.
With Narkissos, Fortíð presents a contemporary metal album that is both musically and lyrically taking the Icelanders to a new peak and, by firmly placing substance over style, will find its audience.
Time for "Uppskera"... Link
Narkissos tracklist:
1. Narkissos
2. Drottnari
3. Vefurinn sem ég spinn
4. Uppskera
5. Þúsund þjáninga smiður
6. Rotinn arfur
7. Illt skal með illu gjalda
8. Tímans ör
9. Við dauðans dyr
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