Our new album, Metamorphosis out on Vicisolum May 19th!

After several years of secrecy, we can finally announce our new album to the world. For one week in the summer of 2019, we all lived together in a house in the middle of nowhere in Iceland. The purpose was to write a new album, based on demos, riffs and ideas that each of us had brought to the table. Writing collaboratively like this was a great idea, and within a week the songs were all written.
We were aiming for a release in the summer of the following year. Well, little did we know there was a virus about to emerge out of nowhere and throw all of our careful plans out the window.
A lot has happened since, though mostly behind the scenes. We ended up having to record most of our instruments within the confines of our own homes, since travelling was a big no-no. In the meantime, we found ourselves a manager, Lars F. Larsen at Intromental, who has helped guide us through this tough period of human history. The recording process was long and complicated, since we’ve never made a so-called “Dropbox album” before. Also it certainly didn’t help that Guðjón, who has done most of the recording and editing of the album, was stuck in Turkey for several months after the initial lockdown and recording had to be halted for a long time. Helgi, who lives in Norway, couldn’t make it back to Iceland so he recorded his parts in his home studio.
When the recording and comping was finally over, we needed a really great mixing engineer to glue it all together. We found the right person for the job, Ronnie Björnström, a Swedish engineer with a background in death metal production. Ronnie absolutely knocked it out of the park with the mixing and mastering, and his punchy aggressive mixing really compliments the frantic and energetic songwriting on Metamorphosis.
At long last, we inked a deal with Vicisolum Productions, a record label based in Sweden and they agreed to release the album. Now we can finally announce it to the world, along with the fantastic album cover done by Eli Hørven Fjellkårstad. There will be two singles before the album release, so stay tuned for that!
We sincerely hope that the struggle has been worth it.
All the best,
Helgi Jónsson, 01.03.23