Noch wenige Tage bis die wieder auferstandene finnische Black Metal Unit nach 23 Jahren der Ruhe ihr Comebackalbum “Darkwoods My Betrothed“ ins Rennen schickt. Bevor es am Freitag  soweit ist, erscheint erst noch die Auskopplung ‚Black Fog And Poison Wind’ als Lyricvideo. Hilfreich denn verstehen kann man den Text ansonsten eher schlecht….

Die Band erzählt über die Single:
“This is one of our favourite songs from the new album. Lyrically, it tells the story of the so-called “Death March of the Carolinians” where 3000 soldiers of the Swedish army froze to death when withdrawing from Norway across the fells in the winter of 1718. We chose to approach this topic from an anthropomorphic perspective: the storyteller is the poisonous icy wind which – in the service of the Angel of Carnage – mercilessly murdered the soldiers in the snowy mountains. The story is accompanied with a black metal anthem that combines brutal blastbeat-driven passages with slower and melodic eerie parts featuring choirs and female vocals. We feel that the song captures the atmosphere of the lyric perfectly.“

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Titelfoto: Antti Ilvonen