NEWS: Mortem return from the frostbitten North!

It’s been seven years and seven deadly sins since they made their debut in 2019 so Norwegian Black Metal super-group Mortem have reunited. Comprising musicians of legendary status in  Steinar Sverd Johnsen, Keyboards (Arcturus, Covenant, Satyricon), Marius Vold, Vocals (Stigma Diabolicum, Thorns, Arcturus), Hellhammer, Drums (Mayhem, Covenant, Arcturus), Tor R. Stavenes, Bass (1349, Svart Lotus, Den Saakaldte), Jamie Stinson, Guitars (Covenant, Dimmu Borgir) the bands sophomore album “Morketid” has been signed and dated 3rd July by Peaceville Records. “Skyggeånd” is the first single and pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

Vocalist Marius Vold: “The lyrics are based on a nightmare I experienced so strongly that the feeling stuck with me for a long time.

In the dream, I had to save my son from this spirit that stood and swayed waiting in a basement passage under the twilight darkness of the night.

A figure in fluttering jet-black cloak, without a face and his head kind of tilting to the side, sort of listening. It hovered standing, completely still in the same place without a sound, only in anticipation … tense like a spider, with an invisible web of fear and horror. The thought that struck me in retrospect is, if this had been a true scenario…I would never have been able to stand against the blinding fear that gagged me in the dream. Not even the love for my son was strong enough for that frost of fear. It is about the paralyzing horror of being approached by a spirit who wants to take you down into perdition and be swallowed up by the shadow world of death.

And the losing battle against the power of darkness, where you lose yourself and slowly become a part of it, withered skin, hollow and fragile, thin, you slip between the shadows.”