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Norwegian darkgaze metal pioneers Vemod unveil the first video single "Der guder dør" ("Where Gods Die") taken from the forthcoming sophomore album entitled The Deepening, which is slated for release on the 19th of January 2024 via Prophecy Productions.
"I never ever expected to make a video for Vemod, and when the good people of Prophecy Productions approached me about it, I was initially skeptical", mastermind Jan Even Åsli reveals. "Despite my reservations, ideas began to spring forth almost immediately. The landscapes surrounding us here at home in the north have always been a most integral element of our work and have provided boundless inspiration since the very beginning. The only natural thing to do was to journey back home and try to capture a tiny bit of that old yet ever-present magic - this time in the form of moving pictures. It could work. It just had to be suitably subtle and unassuming in order to reflect the spirit of both the music and of the land it came from. We leave it up to you to decide whether we succeeded or not. Enjoy your travels."
Vemod are by no means an average band. The Norwegians exist in the liminal spaces and the crossroads of place on a vertical axis and time along a horizontal axis. The trio has chiselled their sophomore full-length The Deepening from the same sonic granite that its predecessor Venter på stormene came from over a decade ago. This bedrock is found in Namsos, where Vemod was conceived as a lifelong passion project at the turn of the century by then 12-year old Jan Even Åsli.
Vemod's musical transition finds comparable parallels in the development of French brothers-in-spirit Alcest even though there was no direct influence flowing either way. The sound of the Norwegians firmly remained tied to the darkness of their home, but by opening themselves to a wide range of highly cinematic forms of expressions, Vemod became in hindsight pioneers of currently extremely popular styles that they never subscribed to such as blackgaze and post-black metal.
Check out the "Der guder dør" video, tracklist and cover artwork of the upcoming album The Deepening right below. Link
The Deepening tracklist:
01. Mot oss, en ild
02. Der guder dør
03. True North Beckons
04. Fra drømmenes bok I
05. Inn i lysande natt
06. The Deepening
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