Vreid announce new album and movie ‘Wild North West’

VREID have announced a new album!

Titled Wild North West, the upcoming album from the Norwegian black ‘n’ roll band is the follow-up to 2018’s Lifehunger and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Season of Mist. The upcoming album is not just a collection of songs, but a concept album that developed alongside an entire movie

Speaking about the upcoming album and the accompanying movie, songwriter and bass player Jarle Hváll Kvåle says, “ever since February 2020, we have been working like hell on this new project. The only short break was when we hosted the livestream from my mountain farm last summer. This project has become all-consuming, and the hours we put into it is just insane. Most of the music was written during winter/early spring least year, and lyrically I started to work on this concept story. Then, me and movie producer Håvard Nesbø who did the lyric videos for Lifehunger and produced our livestream started talking about taking things further. I brought up this wild idea of doing a series of music videos, one for each song and then build these together as a movie. A movie that is the actual album. Håvard who has no limits on his lunacy jumped on board, and we never looked back.

This became the most creative adventure I have ever worked on. The whole process of writing music, recording and mixing it, writing lyrics, making the script for the movie, the actual filming and editing it and working on the design all got tangled up in one twisted world, where all these elements influenced and colored each other. It’s given a whole new dimension to our art. The result is Wild North West. This as DIY as it gets, and it’s OUR story.

With Wild North West we have the whole legacy in our backpack, but with new adventures and visions fulfilled. From the most extreme and intense we have ever done to a heavy and melodic world where we open new doors. VREID‘s origin is rooted in the blend of the aggressive 80ies metal, the grooving 70ies heavy rock and the northern black metal of the 90ies. This is our DNA and this is the spirit of Sognametal. Welcome to the Wild North West.”

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

Track List: 

1. Wild North West
2. Wolves at Sea
3. The Morning Red
4. Shadows of Aurora
5. Spikes of God
6. Dazed and Reduced
7. Into the Mountains
8. Shadowland

Wild North West is set for release on April 30th via Season of Mist. Pre-orders will be available soon.

For more information on VREID like their official page on Facebook.