Borknagar announce new album ‘Fall’
BORKNAGAR have announced a new album!
Titled Fall, the upcoming album from the Norwegian progressive black metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s True North, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Century Media Records.
The upcoming album was mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios [OPETH, AMON AMARTH, KREATOR] and features album cover artwork by Eliran Kantor [TESTAMENT, MY DYING BRIDE, SODOM].
Speaking about the upcoming album, band founder and guitarist Øystein G. Brun says, “we are extremely proud to present you all with our 12th album entitled Fall, another chapter of our musical journey. In many ways Fall represents a continuation of True North, but as always, we are pushing further and afar to seek even broader and more challenging horizons. Musically we are loyal to our musical legacy, but we have most certainly walked through fire and ice to reach our highest peak yet. Although Fall represents a wide array of musical and lyrical ideas, the fundamental theme behind the album is based on the fascination and appreciation of the very outskirts of life. Those places, and those beings, in the vast periphery of our own existence that very few live to see or even learn to know about- but still are profoundly essential for our existence. With Fall we seek to portray and cherish all that holds up and pushes boundaries – against the great fall.”
Alongside the announcement of the album, BORKNAGAR have released a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Summits. Speaking about the new song, G. Brun says, “from the day you are born, nature will do everything in its power to get you back into the ground. The lonesome struggle of being you or the mighty struggle of all life, will eventually tear you down from the inside – or from the outside. But for the short glimpse of time we endure, we all seek the ultimate heights of our very own existence. Our first single Summits, from the upcoming album Fall, scopes in on this everlasting drama of life – where the drama unfolds – at the very outskirts of life.”
Listen to Summits here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Summits
2. Nordic Anthem
3. Afar
4. Moon
5. Stars Ablaze
6. Unraveling
7. The Wild Lingers
8. Northward
Fall is set for release on February 23rd via Century Media Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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