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D\u00f8dheimsgard, Norway’s premier experimental extremist, has completed work on its fifth album, titled A Umbra Omega, and set for release on March 17 via Peaceville Records. One of the top bands and boundary-pushing visionaries of the mid-90’s Norwegian Black Metal evolution, having released four full-length albums since its inception, DHG is widely hailed as a master of dark and psychotic psychedelia-tinged extremity. <\/p>\n
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The first fruits of DHG’s re-animated labor manifest in the shape of new studio album, A Umbra Omega, with original co-founding member, Aldrahn (Thorns\/The Deathtrip), making a return to the asylum on vocal duties alongside Vicotnik’s exquisite and unconventional compositions and structures.<\/p>\n
A Umbra Omega is DHG’s first album since 2007’s Supervillain Outcast opus, and undoubtedly marks the band’s most challenging work to date; twisted, technical, sprawling epics and an inverted outlook on existence from the depths of band mastermind\/writer\/producer, Vicotnik, with similarities drawn to previous classic DHG works such as 666 International and Satanic Art. A raw and organic production permeates the album courtesy of Vicotnik himself, with the album mastered at Strype Audio in Oslo by Tom Kv\u00e5lsvoll.<\/p>\n
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D\u00f8dheimsgard was formed in 1994 by Vicotnik and Aldrahn. The early incarnation was that of a raw and melodic black metal band, with its debut album also featuring Fenriz of Darkthrone on bass, before the poisons of a more avant-garde and schizophrenic concoction started to take hold.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for more information on D\u00f8dheimsgard and A Umbra Omega, out this March on Peaceville.<\/p>\n
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