FYRNASK Announces Release Date

Temple of Torturous are proud to present the latest transgression from Germany's foremost practitioners of the black arts, the shamanistic entity known as FYRNASK. The Gothenburg-based label will be releasing this one-man ambient black metal project's second full-length album, entitled Eldir Nótt, at the dawn of the autumn Equinox - September 23, 2013.

Fyrnask came to life in winter 2008. Arisen from the womb of the earth, Fyrnask creates images of times and places long forgotten, whose origins are only indirectly accessible for mankind. Inspired by old rituals, pan-Germanic spiritism, decay, bloom and nature itself the first demo Fjǫrvar ok benjar was born in October 2010. Düsterwald distributed this demo and it got a splendid resonance.

In 2011, lone mainman Fyrnd released Fyrnask's Bluostar through Temple of Torturous to widespread international acclaim, most critics rightfully claiming the band to be black metal's saviours of boundless neo-traditionalism. However kaleidoscopic Bluostar was (and still is, of course), little can prepare one for the journey that awaits within Eldir Nótt, Fyrnask's mesmerising and monolithic second album.

Clocking in a massive, time-evaporating 50 minutes, Eldir Nótt sees Fyrnask taking truer, freer flight than ever. The monument begins with cyclic, spiraling black metal of a shockingly gorgeous hue - sumptuous, even sensual - and yet retains the genre's core elements, that liberating fire and cleansing touch. But from there, Eldir Nótt wends and winds down both darker and daresay lighter corridors, as black metal proper is shed of its skin and the latent vibrations and textures so crucial to it are shaped into alternately dense/spacious soundscapes more in line with the ethno-ambient genre spearheaded by Dead Can Dance. Flickers of that fire take shape again and again, and motifs are revisited and reassembled, the sum effect being not unlike arcane afterimages reverberating across the cosmos and emerging upon the receptor different yet unchanged. And all along the path, there are means of escape, but "escape" not in the sense of freedom from conflict, unpleasantness, or whatever - rather, escape to wilder, weirder hinterlands of the imagination.

Recorded between 2011 and 2013, Fyrnask's Eldir Nótt was a Herculean undertaking for mainman Fyrnd, but the results speak for themselves: black metal is both blacker and more visual again, purer and more defiant. Adorned with appropriately transcendental artwork by the legendary Benjamin Vierling and design by David d'Andrea, here is Eldir Nótt, and Fyrnask are handing you the torch.