Swedish black metal cult ARCKANUM has announced a new album. His eighth full length will be titled ‘Fenriz Kindir‘, and is slated for a European release onMay 10th. The tracklisting and artwork for ‘Fenriz Kindir‘ can be found below.
Regarding the new album, ARCKANUM mastermind Shamaatae says: „This album is a dedication to the flaming giant-wolf, son of Loki; created from the Chaos-fires of Múspellsheimr. It is a tribute to the wrathful giant-wolf, son of Angrboða, found in the Ironwood where he is breeding hordes of giant monstrous wolves with Angrboða. His victorious name is Fenrir, also called Tungls Tjúgari! Hail Fenrir!
The sounds and music on this album are my auditory vision of the march of Fenrir convoyed with his hordes of giant wolves from the depths of the underworld to face Ragna Rök with warlike glory – deformed giant-wolves swarming in thousands.
The Old Norse poem Völuspá (40-41) says: “In the east of the Ironwood (Járnviðr) she the Old One (Angrboða) sat and there bore Fenrir’s Kin (Fenris kindir). One of which became the most worthy of them all, the One taking down the sun/moon with a two-pronged pitchfork (tungls tjúgari), in a troll’s shape. He fills his belly with the corpses of dead men and defiles the houses of gods with blood. The sun’s beams blacken during summers and the weather grows stormy.” The later prose Gylfaginning (51) reveals Fenrir’s flaming Múspell-descent during Ragna Rök: „Fenrir shall advance with gaping mouth, and his lower jaw shall be against the earth, but the upper against heaven, he would gape yet more if there were room for it; fires blaze from his eyes and nostrils… The Sons of Múspell shall go forth to that field which is called Vígríðr, thither shall come Fenrir also…”
This is my tribute to the wrathful, harsh and untamed anti-nature of Fenrir’s mighty essence! The anti-cosmic enemy of the worlds! Heill Tungls Tjúgari! Heilir Fenris Synir!”
Tracklisting:
1. Fenris Kindir Grúa
2. Tungls Tjúgari
3. Dólgrinn
4. Hatarnir
5. Hamrami
6. Fenris Gangr
7. Vargøld
8. Angrboða
9. Úskepna
10. Spell
11. Sólbøls Sigr
12. Lycanthropia [Necromantia cover, bonus track on digital and LP editions]
You can preview the artwork for ‘Fenris Kindir‘ here as well as preorder the exclusive, limited-to-150 red vinyl version of the album on the Season of Mist e-shop.
‘Fenriz Kindir’ features the following guest appearances:
Tungls Tjúgari: Peter Asp, horns.
Hatarnir: Lena Klarström: female vocals; Peter Asp: howling guitars.
Hamrami: Ljuder-Stefan Westberg: horns and violins.
Vargøld: Olof Lindberg and Peter Asp: chorus and horns.
Angrboða: Lena Klarström: female vocals.
Sólbøls Sigr: Ljuder-Stefan Westberg: keyed fiddle (nyckelharpa) and violins.
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