Leírás
Doom Metal, Post Metal, Post Rock, Sludge Metal,
Limited edition DIGI pack CD kiadvány, 2024-es album.
A formidable power trio, hailing in parts from the icy Swedish northlands and the glacial expanse of the Swiss Alps, named after the three Norse goddesses of fate who wove the very tapestry of fate underneath the mythical World Tree, Norna aren’t messing around. Their debut album, 2021’s ‘Star is way way is Eye’ was saturated filth; uncompromising, unrelenting ugliness. This though, their eponymous sophomore offering, digs its claws deeper into the dirt. Sharpened, hungry and desperate, born of the moment and yet years in the making; ‘Norna’ liberates a primal rage that has been suppressed for far too long.
‘Norna” delving into the world of light and dark to explore ideas of duplicity, morality and expose all of the actions and feelings that humanity prefers to keep in the shadows. Lead single ‘Ghost’ is stomach churning proof that the doom merchants have refined their seething abrasion in something uglier still, with a 5-minute barrage of unresolved riffs leaving the listener beside themselves before the likes of album opener ‘Samsara’ act like a blows to the head as breakdown after breakdown slow us all down to an agonising crawl…
Elsewhere, tracks such as ‘For Fear of Coming’ further highlight the distinct evolution of Norna’s inimitable sound with an ever-so-slightly elevated tempo and the semblance of something approaching a melodic hook promptly obliterated by rattling, ripped-speaker overdrive and a dusting of eerie found sounds.
It’s here in this dichotic balance of joyous creation and total destruction, between the beginning and the end of all things, that Norna have positioned themselves with their latest offering. Unlike so many of us, the band have come to terms with the ugly truth that you can’t have one without the other, which makes perfect sense because, as broken, discordant and disgusting as ‘Norna’ is, it’s impossible to stay away.
Felállás:
Tomas Liljedahl – vocals & guitars
Christophe Macquat – guitars, bass & moog
Marc Theurillat – drums & samples
YouTube video:
„Ghost” (visualizer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z1WrrOGzLw
„Fear of Coming”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O_Nn19iP9U
Felvételek:
1. Samsara
2. For Fear of Coming 06:29
3. Ghost 05:38
4. Shine By Its Own Light
5. Shadow Works
6. The Sleep
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