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Little over a year following the release of its sophomore album, A Song To Sorrow, Cirkeln, the one-man project of Stockholm-based underground musician known as Våndarr, is back with another album that pays homage to the forefathers of black metal.
Cirkeln's upcoming new offering, The Primitive Covenant, is set for release on 3 November through True Cult Records and sees Våndarr incorporating more elements of old-school thrash-metal, primaeval death-metal and even punk.
The album's advance track, "Garden Of Thorns", is now out and playing also in the player below.
"'Garden Of Thorns' was the first track that I wrote and recorded for the album", says Våndarr about this new track. "So, it became sort of a north star for me to follow during the process of writing and recording this third Cirkeln LP. I knew I had captured a sound that I was very keen on exploring further. My goal with The Primitive Covenant was from the word go to indulge in different expressions than I had done previously. I wanted to strip my sound of all the bells and whistles (quite literally) and find a more, well, primitive sound where the base components of heavy metal were front and center. I wanted to lead with the riff rather than with the atmosphere. So, it became important to me to write and record in a way where I wasn't hiding behind a washed-out production or a storm of reverb. I wanted it to be direct - to go straight for the jugular as it were. So, this song is in a way my mission statement and a promise of things to come on the record; a return to the raw materials from which all steel is refined." Link
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