ORM announce new album ‘Ir’
ORM have announced a new album!
Titled Ir, the upcoming album from the Danish black metal ensemble is their second effort and is scheduled to be released in August this year.
The album consists of the two compositions Klippens Lyse Hal (The Light Hall Of the Cliff) and Bær Solen Ud (Carry Out the Sun) which both clocks in at between 23 and 24 minutes. The band’s guitarist and singer Simon Sonne Andersen has produced the album and the band has also designed the record’s visual side themselves.
Musicologist Tore Tvarnø Lind has taken his time to listen and formulate these words on Ir. “To lose somebody is a shared experience. Ir (verdigris) is a way of carrying on with a loved one who is no longer in life, who decidedly put an end to it. Struggling not to dissolve, ORM creates a mythology to withstand grief and to find meaning in fate. A doubtful comfort, though, the myth betrays, and the answer is but an empty echo. Ir is a patient monster, a malachite-born with a thousand green eyes, a black metal dies irae. Ir is the day of wrath with the solemnity of a requiem. ORM carries out the dead, who is sunlight, down ancient and secret pathways to the halls of light. A paradox, Ir is also the means to learn to embrace and respect the other’s will to die. Clad in black, ORM sees the dead sprouting from the mold anew. The tenderness in the elegy voices the complexity of grief itself.
The drama is local, and death within close proximity. Topographical designators such as Opalsøen and the Syvmaster that grew by Bastemosen, places the mournful pilgrimage that is Ir in the midst of the ancient woods of Bornholm, the easternmost island of Denmark. Restless memories haunt the wildlife here. Ir is an oath spoken with the mythical creatures of the underground, a sacred oath to fight oblivion. Ir is the black riders armed with hammer-horns, impure voices, and swords of strength, who thunder toward the edge of the Hammer cliff in glorious dust. Ir is the sun setting over the glow of humankind. The ice skating silhouettes in the monochrome pictures are long gone. We shall all share their fate, but not just yet. They remind us that we, too, will be lost one day. Maybe hoping that love shone upon our face once. Underneath the ice, in waters dark and murky, the worm dwells over grey granite. The worm is an heir of a bygone era, at a time when the moon was humble.”
Ir is set for release on August 30th via Indisciplinarian.
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