– February 1st, 2024 –
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Faroe Islands-based loss of life/doom outfit HAMFERÐ will launch their Males Guðs hond er sterk full-length March twenty second on Metallic Blade Information.
When this magisterial sextet’s third album Támsins likam emerged in 2018 – ten years after they first entered a rehearsal house – the extremely acclaimed and powerfully emotive opus thrust the mourning-suited band onto the world stage. 5 years on, the buildup of plentiful dwell expertise and interpersonal chemistry has had a profound affect on HAMFERБs extraordinary fourth LP, Males Guðs hond er sterk, feeding into the artisanal sonic imaginative and prescient of guitarist and producer, Theodor Kapnas.
Concertedly eschewing all of the quick-fix trickery of contemporary recording expertise, the band recorded the songs taking part in all collectively dwell within the studio, and not using a click-track. The result’s a resoundingly human album that heaves, swoops, and shifts in elemental fashion – from passages of glacial post-metallic magnificence by means of sorrowful folky goth cadences, through icy blackened blastbeats to shuddering vistas of utmost doom mastery – with a crackling tight-but-loose interaction recalling the giants of yesteryear.
The narrative idea behind Males Guðs hond er sterk is impressed by a harrowing native occasion: the 1915 whaling catastrophe off the Faroe Island village of Sandvik (dwelling of HAMFERÐ keyboardist Esmar Joensen), when fourteen males died driving whales ashore within the stormy bay. The village inhabitants witnessed the tragedy from the seaside.
Fittingly, the unhappy story has enabled HAMFERÐ to powerfully carry to life the which means behind their Faroese identify, zeroing in on the traumatic emotional pressure behind this supernatural phenomenon. “Once you see somebody in hamferð, you see their apparition,” Kapnas explains. “Principally it’s wives with husbands at sea, who’ve seen them dripping moist within the doorframe in the midst of the night time. Sometimes, in folklore it’s a warning that one thing dangerous will occur, and there are a number of documented episodes of this occurring in Sandvik in 1915. So it’s form of full circle for us.”
As a precursor to the discharge of Males Guðs hond er sterk, the band right this moment delivers a video for first single and opening monitor, “Ábær.” Presents Kapnas, “‘Ábær’ is about crusing by means of a hurricane, by means of ocean valleys, in a rowing boat and surviving it. The waves crashing, the wind and rain beating and biting you, loss of life greeting you in every single place you look. Perseverance, melancholy, dread, willpower, endurance and doubt interweave with each word and phrase.”
Watch HAMFERБs “Ábær” video at THIS LOCATION.
Males Guðs hond er sterk might be launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following shade variants:
Azure Blue Marbled (US/EU)
180g Black (EU)
Sand Beige Marbled (EU – Ltd. 300)
Crystal Clear Blackdust (EU – Ltd. 200)
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/hamferd
Males Guðs hond er sterk Observe Itemizing:
01. Ábær
02. Rikin
03. Marrusorg
04. Glæman
05. Í hamferð
06. Fendreygar
07. Hvølja
08. Males Guðs hond er sterk
HAMFERÐ:
Jón Aldará – vocals
Theodor Kapnas – guitars
Eyðun í Geil Hvannastein – guitars
Esmar Joensen – keyboards
Remi Kofoed Johannesen – drums
Jenus í Trøðini – bass
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