Dødheimsgard announce new album ‘Black Medium Current’

February 25, 2023 James Weaver

DØDHEIMSGARD have announced a new album!

Titled Black Medium Current, the upcoming album from the Norwegian avant-garde band is the follow-up to 2015’s A Umbra Omega, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Peaceville Records.

The upcoming album was recorded during the end of 2021 and beginnings of 2022, with production duties being handled by DØDHEIMSGARD vocalist/guitarist Vicotnik. The album was engineered and mixed by Matias Aaveren at Top-Room Studios and was mastered by Charis at Feedback Studios with additional help by Pavlos.

Outside of traditional bass guitar duties Lars Emil Måløy lends his talents on piano, cella and theremind on Requiem Aeturnum as well as flute by STTNG on Et Smelter. The album is adorned by the work of graphic designer Łukasz Jaszak.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist/guitarist Vicotnik says, “there is a certain amount of facticity to moods, in turn moods are conditions of thinking and ultimately solicit a variety of responses. The contradictory notions of angst and if angst is tied to free will or rather solely a deterministic human feature. If an agent is invested in being a particular thing and when the state of being is compromised, one would normally find oneself in a state of existentialist despair and confusion.

Are we in perpetual despair because our identity depends on qualifiers that can crumble at any moment? Yet trying to solely avoid these states of confusion and discomfort through structuring all notions of an all-encompassing rationality in order to interact with the objective world, is perhaps in part to relinquish personal freedom and the potential of growth? With this album I am trying to create moods in which this angst and confusion is prevalent, and through my experiential notions pose questions, (primarily to myself), that perhaps extends to facilitating the development of inner resources, overcoming self-deception and promoting freedom through art and creative exercise.

To dream (abstract reality) is Purpose, matter (physical reality) is the fabric in which to research and fulfil the purpose. The front cover shows empty space and the building blocks of reality in the sense of what is and the potential of what can be. It is easy to view this cover through the lenses of philosophical realism, and it has contingency towards that indeed. But the cover itself, just by existing, also conveys an abstraction towards something that came into existence from an idea. Is an idea contingent on the physical realm to be expressed? Or is the physical realm itself an idea from self-servitude? Brought forth from a mind in order to study itself, interact and further the understanding of its existence. A sort of Platonic universalis through an artistic lens. Idea, not as mental but as abstract, existing independently of both the mental activity itself and sensible particulars.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: