Last month, the Norwegian Blackjazz outfit Shining surprised the ever growing international jazz-metal scene by taking home the fabled “A-ha Grant”, after first shocking the living shit out of the audience of 80’000 people and about 1 million tv-viewers.
Even more shocking was the fact that A-ha, the most successful pop act every to come out of Norway (remember “Take On Me”?), themselves chose Shining as their favorite band. In addition to giving Shining 1 million Norwegian Kroner, A-ha have even invited them to open up for them on their big Farewell Arena Concert on Aug 21st in Oslo, Norway.
This famed performance of their single “The Madness and the Damage Done” is now finally available on YouTube. See what happened when Shining won 150’000 USD here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M3YK4YMpA0
Shining’s Jørgen Munkeby comments on this special event, including being denied the opportunity to perform live: ” Due to extreme time restrictions from the TV station, we were denied playing live. We argued until our heads almost fell off, to no avail. But since we play live shows all the time, this was actually a very fun thing for us to do! Then we could instead concentrate on what we were going to have for breakfast the next morning.”
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Norwegian psychedelic post-black metal band Enslaved will release its new album, “Axioma Ethica Odini”, in Europe on September 27 and in North America on September 28. The CD’s cover artwork was created by the Norwegian artist Truls Espedal, who has painted every Enslaved album cover since 2001′s “Monumension”.
“Axioma Ethica Odini” track listing:
01. Ethica Odini
02. Raidho
03. Waruun
04. The Beacon
05. Axioma
06. Giants
07. Singular
08. Night Sight
09. Lightening
“Axioma Ethica Odini” will be made available as a special edition in gatefold seven-inch format with the entire album on CD and a seven-inch vinyl single as a bonus, as well as a regular jewel case and double vinyl. The bonus seven-inch single will include new recordings of the songs “Jotunblod” and “Migration”.
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The title for the new album by Norway’s highly renowned extreme metal band Enslaved was announced on the band’s MySpace page today. “Axioma Ethica Odini” will be released in Europe September 27, and North America September 28.
This eleventh studio album was recorded at three different studios in Bergen, Norway: 1) Duper; 2) Earshot (belonging to Enslaved members Herbrand Larsen [keyboardist/backing vocalist] and Ice Dale [lead guitarist]); and 3) Peersonal Sound (owned by rhythm guitarist/songwriter Ivar Bjørnson). It is the follow-up to 2008’s “Vertebrae”. In their native country, Norway, “Vertebrae” entered the official charts at #20 and earned Enslaved their third consecutive Spellemannpris (The Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy Awards).
Enslaved will embark on a 7-show “Circling Above and Within Tour” of Europe beginning October 15.
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The new Sahg album, ‘Sahg III’, will be out August 30, 2010 and here is the first of a few sneak peeks into the making of the album! Please follow this link.
Not many heavy metal bands can boast of chart positions and two-page bulletins in all the national newspapers for a debut album. Sahg can. With their gloomy chords, ten ton rhythms and a taste for the heavy rock pioneers of the seventies, the Bergen-based quartet had the audience and critics toss their hats in the air with excitement.
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Amazing news! Shining has been nominated for the A-ha Grant of 1 million NOK! (This sum equals 150’000 USD / 125’000 EUR.) The band is one of two bands that will receive the award – if they get enough votes from you!
The voting starts Tuesday 15th June, and lasts until Friday 18th June 20:30 CET. Detailed info on how and where to vote to be posted at www.shining.no shortly. And as Jørgen Munkeby says himself: “If there was one time we needed your vote, it is now.”
Munkeby comments, in an upcoming voting propaganda video, to be posted on Shining sites shortly: “The fact that Shining has been nominated for a huge grant by A-ha, the most successful pop act ever to come out of Norway, reminds us of the fact that it is possible to make jazz catchy, and that metal is no longer reserved only for people with big shoes, leather pants, and frizzy hair.”
As a part of the Grant, Shining will perform their single “The Madness and the Damage Done” for an audience of 100’000 people at the City Hall Square in Oslo, Norway, June 18th. This show will also be broadcast for 1 million TV viewers in Norway, one quarter of the whole Norwegian population.
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The official and great music video for the Kvelertak track “Mjød” is available now on the Kvelertak Youtube channel. The song is taken from their debut self-titled album which will be released on June 21 on Indie Recordings. The debut album was produced and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the artwork was done by John Baizley (Baroness). Guests on the new album are Hoest (Taake), Andreas Tylden (JR Ewing & Altaar), Ivar Nikolaisen (Silver) & Ryan McKenney (Trap Them).
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Ov Hell have been nominated for “Best Underground Artist” by the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2010. Fans can vote online here: http://goldengods.metalhammer.co.uk
Be sure to complete the voting by entering your ballot at the end of the nominees’ list. Votes must be received by May 17, 2010
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11 days ago, Shining (from Norway) and Enslaved performed at the Roadburn Festival the last ever performance of their “Armageddon Concerto”, conceived, composed and performed with their fellow Norwegian explorers Enslaved.
Shining now release the opening movement ‘RMGDN’ as a download on all major digital stores worldwide (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc.).
The track ‘RMGDN’ is the 13 minutes long opener for the Concerto, and was recorded by Shining along with the rest of “Blackjazz”. It was of course also mixed by the eminent Sean Beavan and mastered by the impeccable Tom Baker.
‘RMGDN”’ has only been available as a very special bonus track on a limited amount of vinyl “Blackjazz” records, and is now available as download for the first time.
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Norway’s 1349′s upcoming fifth full length, “Demonoir,” which will be released by Indie Recordings throughout Europe on April 26, and by Prosthetic Records in North America the following day, was recorded at Studio Nyhagen, deep in the woods in Norway with Tom Gabriel Warrior (Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Triptykon), who showed the greatest respect for the task and played a key role as motivator and catalyst. His technical role of the recording was that of a co-producer, but far more important was his presence and understanding of what a challenging project “Demonoir” was.
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Ivar Bjornson checks in from the studio - enjoy!
It has been a while, hasn’t it? Again, I would like to start off by thanking everybody out there for the feedback that keeps pouring in! It is highly motivating to see that so many more than just us guys in the band are enthusiastic about the making of the new album.
Vocals should be more or less done by today; I stopped by the studio earlier this morning where Herbrand were warming up to do some clean vocals. I’ve so far only heard two of the tracks with complete vocals, and that was totally amazing to hear. It was last Tuesday, and a very important day for the album: Truls Espedal, the brilliant artist that has made every Enslaved front cover since “Monumension” forwards – came to Bergen to go through the concept and lyrics with me and Grutle. We are always looking forward to these meetings, where Truls is making rapid sketches as we talk about the overall structures and listen to rough mixes made so far.
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