From Horten, Norway emerges the black metal band Nidingr – a band that’s been in the scene all the way since 1992. Since then, Nidingr has released 1 demo and 3 albums and played on the biggest metal festivals all over the world. Nidingr is a band that let themselves grow naturally over time and when they release an album it’s in good belief that it’ll be a great contribution to the top tier world of metal music.

They are now releasing their fourth album on Feb 10th 2017, titled “The High Heat Licks Against Heaven”. An album drenched in Norse mythology, and names from the younger and older Edda appears throughout in the lyrics. The album drifts in the middle of black and death metal, but with the Norse theme it creates a unique and fresh breath of sound. To put it mildly, this is a brutal and honest metal record. The album was being worked on intensely for two years, where they took a deep dive into the old English translations of the older and younger Edda from the 18th century. They are continuously striving towards authenticity and shapes the music partly around the theme and the text material, which in broad terms talks about the great and classical themes like death, afterlife, war and the many majestic personalities from the mythology.

The songs are characterized by heavy riffs in a glassy but dirty sound, with at times some melodies with melancholic atmospheres, steady tempo with an almost marching undertone. The vocals hang on in the top of the sound wall with a drive, power and quality one rarely hears. With Cpt.Estrella Grasa on vocals, Teloch (Mayhem, Gorgoroth, God Seed) on guitar, Destructhor (Myrkskog, Morbid Angel) on backing vocals (guitar), Myrvoll on drums and SIR (Gaahls Wyrd, Trelldom, God Seed) on bass, the music is shaped to a monolith of an album in an unmitigated an authentic style.

 

MARKETING & PROMOTION / SELLING POINTS

• Nidingr is True Norwegian Black Metal composed by Teloch (Mayhem) - one of the finest black metal composers from Norway! 

• This album is drenched in Norse mythology with lyrics from Edda – the greatest prose and poetic book of Norse literature and our main source to Norse mythology and culture today. 

• To put it mildly, this is a brutal and honest metal record! 

• Members are also known from bands like Mayhem, Gorgoroth, God Seed, 1349, Morbid Angel ++ 

• Previous album got great reviews: 9/10 - Metal Temple “a great Black Metal album” | 8,5/10 - The Washington Times: "It's a beast worth hunting down" | 6/6 - Metalzone.dk | 6/6 – Norsk Metal | 5/6 -Dagbladet “Unique musical brutality”

TRACKLIST

1. Hangagud

2. Surtr

3. The Ballad Of Hamther

4. On Dead Body Shore

5. Gleipnir

6. Sol Taker

7. Ash Yggdrasil

8. Heimdalargaldr

9. Valkyries Assemble

10. Naglfar is Loosed