SPECIAL DUAL COLOURED VINYL PRESSING 2015's 68 MINUTE DARK MASTERPIECE OF CHALLENGING & UNNERVING INTROSPECTION FROM THE NORWEGIAN EXPERIMENTAL

BLACK METAL PURVEYORS

 

Norway’s Dødheimsgard was formed in 1994 by Vicotnik & Aldrahn. The early incarnation was that of a raw & melodic black metal band, with their debut album also featuring Fenriz of Darkthrone on bass, before a more avantgarde & often wildly experimental concoction started to take hold.

 

One of the top bands & boundary-pushing visionaries of the mid-90’s Norwegian Black Metal evolution, & currently still riding high on the back of 2023's magnum opus, 'Black Medium Current', DHG are widely hailed as masters of dark & psychotic psychedelia-tinged extremity.

 

The first fruits of DHG’s re-animated labour manifested in the shape of the 2015 studio album, ‘A Umbra Omega’, with original co-founding member Aldrahn (Thorns/Urarv) making a return to the asylum on vocal duties alongside Vicotnik’s exquisite & unconventional compositions & structures.

 

‘A Umbra Omega’ was DHG’s first album since 2007’s ‘Supervillain Outcast’ opus, & marked the band’s most challenging work to date; twisted, technical, sprawling epics & 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’ & ‘Satanic Art’, whilst being taken to a whole new level.

 

A raw & organic production permeates the album courtesy of Vicotnik himself, with the album mastered at Strype Audio in Oslo by Tom Kvålsvoll.