Mortem release new song ‘Skyggeånd’
MORTEM have released a new single!
The new track, Skyggeånd, is the first single from the Norwegian extreme metal band’s upcoming new album Mørketid, which is scheduled to be released on July 3rd via Peaceville Records. The single arrives alongside a new lyric video, created by Matthew Vickerstaff.
Speaking about the new track, frontman Marius Vold shares, “the lyrics are based on a nightmare I experienced so strongly that the feeling stuck with me for a long time. In the dream, I had to save my son from this spirit that stood and swayed waiting in a basement passage under the twilight darkness of the night. A figure in fluttering jet-black cloak, without a face and his head kind of tilting to the side, sort of listening. It hovered standing, completely still in the same place without a sound, only in anticipation … tense like a spider, with an invisible web of fear and horror.
The thought that struck me in retrospect is, if this had been a true scenario…I would never have been able to stand against the blinding fear that gagged me in the dream. Not even the love for my son was strong enough for that frost of fear. It is about the paralyzing horror of being approached by a spirit who wants to take you down into perdition and be swallowed up by the shadow world of death. And the losing battle against the power of darkness, where you lose yourself and slowly become a part of it, withered skin, hollow and fragile, thin, you slip between the shadows. You have become an eternal servant of the night, for none of the worldly values will you know, ever again.”
Watch the lyric video for Skyggeånd here:
Mørketid is set for release on July 3rd via Peaceville Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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