GRAFVITNIR set release date for new SHADOW album, reveal first track

Today, Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces June 30th as the international release date for Grafvitnir‘s highly anticipated ninth album, Into the Outer Wilderness, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

By now, Grafvitnir require no introduction. Since their fiery birth in 2007 and successive NâHásh debut album in 2012, this still-mysterious Swedish formation have dependably – and provocatively – stoked the fires of ancient black metal, becoming veritable royalty by the end of the decade. From that fiery beginning, Grafvitnir‘s aesthetic has been firm and unyielding: exquisitely and restlessly melodic, its sulfurous fire paradoxically as cryogenic as it comes, medieval in atmosphere and literally bewitching in feel and fury. To suggest that the band harken back to a time when Dissection sired countless clones – but, crucially, each one of them as satisfying and significant as the next – is to underline the gravitas of Grafvitnir‘s particular vision of black metal: a steadfast and enduring classicism that’s timeless then, now, and forever into the future.

And so it goes with Grafvitnir‘s ninth album, Into the Outer Wilderness. No compromise, no quarter: this is Grafvitnir further distilled into 43 minutes of menace and majesty. But the title Into the Outer Wilderness is telling, as the duo here evoke that sensation of plunging into a clandestine world of witchcraft and sacred rites, spun into a delirium through somehow shimmering and even sparkling melodicism. And yet, for however organic their productions have always sounded – rough and raw, sure, but most importantly, human – there’s conspicuously more grit here on Into the Outer Wilderness as well as clarity, making for a unique entry into Grafvitnir‘s nigh-untouchable catalog. Elsewhere, it’s righteously ripping songwriting as only these Swedes can deliver, entrancing and enervating as ever; there is only one Grafvitnir then, now, and especially forever. Venture forth Into the Outer Wilderness!

Begin venturing with the brand-new track “Through the Witchcraft Door” here:

. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Grafvitnir’s Into the Outer Wilderness
1. Conjuring the Serpent Flames (Intro)
2. Into the Outer Wilderness
3. Venomous Incantations
4. Lycanthropic Litany
5. Där köldvindar skriker av hat
6. From a Thousand Ages Lost
7. Through the Witchcraft Door
8. Urtidens becksvarta arv
9. Seekers of Fire


MORE INFO:
www.grafvitnir.bandcamp.com 

www.shadowrecords.se
www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se

GRAFVITNIR sign with SHADOW, prepare new album

Shadow Records and Grafvitnir are joining forces in spiritual warfare against the modern world…

Grafvitnir, the Nordic torchbearers of serpent fire, have joined forces with Shadow Records: a match made in the misty regions of Hell, and a conspiracy established and consecrated by the night spirits of the Netherworld. With dagger blades sharpened to rip apart the veils of modernity and conformity, this shadowy alliance is bound to vengeance and rebellion and gathered together to greet the storm of the end times. 

Grafvitnir‘s music has often been described as a freezing tempest with occult overtures or a maelstrom of icy tones with venomous incantations as if spewed out by the primordial serpent itself, and rightfully so. Distinctively Nordic in atmosphere and feeling, Grafvitnir are not only the Norse carriers of the Luciferian flame, but also standard bearers for the classic Swedish black metal sound in its entirety. 

This is the darkness of Death…


MORE INFO:
www.grafvitnir.bandcamp.com 

www.shadowrecords.se
www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se