Jotunspor (Wardruna + Gorgoroth) - Gleipnirs Smeder [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: CSR244CD
Barcode: 0641871745012
Release Date: 17 Oct 2025
Genre: Rock

"...an unsettling blend of mid-tempo necro and Arctic ambient passages... a great vicious wall of light-sucking noise, heavy on the doom-metal influences with no unnecessary production frills... for true denizens of the murky black metal underworld, it's an album that should definitely be checked out." (Metal Hammer) "This slow foreboding black metal in the old Norse style, with its meditative and runic feel conveys the atmospheres of dank, pine scented grimmnity well. Though the ambient intermezzos between tracks could probably have been done effortlessly and more icily by any of Cold Spring's main usual suspects, they are nonetheless eerie, and the clanking, atavistic black metal component is equally haunting." (Terrorizer) King Ov Hell (Gorgoroth, Sahg, God Seed) and Kvitrafn (aka Einar Selvik of Wardruna, Skuggsjá, Gorgoroth) teamed up and formed Jotunspor ("tracks/traces of giants").Musically, "Gleipnirs Smeder" binds grim and primitive black metal together with elements of noisy dark-ambient, while the concept of Jotunspor is strongly founded in the old Norse cults and beliefs. "Glepnirs Smeder", or The Forgers of Gleipnir, explores some of the incidents surrounding the creation of the world and Ragnarok - the ultimate doom / transformation. The chain Gleipnir, its forgers from the depths of Svartalvheim and Fenris - the chained jotun-wolf are some of the most important themes on the album, on which the lyrics are sung in Norwegian and Old Norse tongue. Produced and engineered in Norway by Kvitrafn.

TRACKLISTING
1. Gleipnirs Smeder
2. Svartalvheims Djup
3. Solartjuven
4. Freke Han Renn…
5. Sol Mun Svartne
6. Ginnungagalder
7. Ildkrig