VREID Premiere ‘Wolves At Sea’ Music Video
March 18th, 2022
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Norwegian black metal band Vreid have released a music video for the track ‘Wolves At Sea’, which can be viewed below.
Vreid issued ninth full-length studio album Wild North West on April 30th, 2021 through Season Of Mist.
The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.
Wild North Nest is a concept album that developed alongside an entire movie. According to a press release, throughout eight chapters “the listener will be taken on a journey deep into the mountains, to a dark place where the borders between reality and fantasy fade and where death is only one step behind you: The Wild North West.”
Jarle Hváll Kvåle commented: “Ever since February 2020, we have been working like hell on this new project. The only short break was when we hosted the livestream from my mountain farm last summer. This project has become all-consuming, and the hours we put into it is just insane. Most of the music was written during winter / early spring least year, and lyrically I started to work on this concept story. Then, me and movie producer Håvard Nesbø who did the lyric videos for Lifehunger and produced our livestream started talking about taking things further. I brought up this wild idea of doing a series of music videos, one for each song and then build these together as a movie. A movie that is the actual album. Håvard who has no limits on his lunacy jumped on board, and we never looked back.
“This became the most creative adventure I have ever worked on. The whole process of writing music, recording and mixing it, writing lyrics, making the script for the movie, the actual filming and editing it and working on the design all got tangled up in one twisted world, where all these elements influenced and coloured each other. It’s given a whole new dimension to our art. The result is Wild North West. This as DIY as it gets, and it’s our story.
“With Wild North West we have the whole legacy in our backpack, but with new adventures and visions fulfilled. From the most extreme and intense we have ever done to a heavy and melodic world where we open new doors. Vreid’s origin is rooted in the blend of the aggressive 80s metal, the grooving 70s heavy rock and the northern black metal of the 90s. This is our DNA and this is the spirit of Sognametal. Welcome to the Wild North West.”
Wild North West was recorded at Studio 1184 and Nabolaget Studio, with production and sound engineering from Jarle Hváll Kvåle together with Anders Nordengen. Mixing was handled by Kvåle alongside Helge Bentsen. Mastering, meanwhile, was overseen by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.
Terje ‘Valfar’ Bakken provides guest keyboards on the track ‘Into The Mountains’, while Espen Bakketeig supplies additional keys on the songs ‘Wolves At Sea’, ‘Dazed And Reduced’, and ‘Shadowland’. In addition, Eli, Helena, and Anna give backing vocals on the track ‘Into The Mountains’.
Cover artwork duties fell to Remi Juliebø of Deformat Design, while photography for the outing was done by Nesbø and Talle with animated pictures by Remi Juliebø of Deformat Design.
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘Wild North West’
02. ‘Wolves At Sea’
03. ‘The Morning Red’
04. ‘Shadows Of Aurora’
05. ‘Spikes Of God’
06. ‘Dazed And Reduced’
07. ‘Into The Mountains’
08. ‘Shadowland’
Vreid’s line-up is as follows:
Sture Dingsøyr (vocals and guitars)
Stian Bakketeig (guitars)
Jarle Hváll Kvåle (bass, keyboards, additional vocals and guitars)
Jørn Holen (drums)
Music videos were released for the title track and the songs ‘The Morning Red’, ‘Shadows Of Aurora’, ‘Spikes Of God’, ‘Dazed And Reduced’ and ‘Into The Mountains’. All six clips can also be viewed below.
Eighth studio record Lifehunger was released in September 2018 via Season Of Mist.
Promotional photograph by Nesbø & Talle.
