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Below is our complete Northumbria news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Northumbria Posts New Music Video
Toronto-based ambient/drone group Northumbria has teamed up with Heathen Harvest Periodical to premiere the “Ostara” video (also available below).
The track is taken from the band's second full-length album “Bring Down The Sky,” issued last year by ConSouling Sounds (thisquietarmy, Amenra, Nadja). The video was created by Dominic F. Marceau, who has worked with artists like Theologian, thisquietarmy, and Sewer Goddess in the past.About this new video, Northumbria’s Dorian Williamson offered the following words:
“The song is very much a celebration—albeit it in our own very personal way—of the Goddess Ostara. When we were creating it, we really felt like the sound, and the energy behind it, literally took on a life of its own. We’re always striving for that in all of our songs: to create a trance-like state where the power of the sound takes over in a way you could never really consciously write in the traditional sense. Jim Field and I are really into the primal nature of this kind of music. Even though it may not necessarily sound like it, it’s very ritualistic in its purest form. When it works, it connects that specific moment to something much more powerful and ancient. We just channel that connection and give it a bit of direction.
"Even though the video itself is abstract, the spirit of the meaning of Ostara is somehow still successfully created. We’re talking about the life-giving creative force in the universe made flesh, symbolically and spiritually, but of course in a very non-objective way. Like the music, the video leaves a lot to interpretation.”
1. Transcendence
2. The Ocean Calls us Home
3. Ostara
4. The Silver Forest
5. Bring Down the Sky More...
Northumbria Announces Album Release
Consouling Sounds is proud to announce the imminent release of “Bring Down the Sky,” the sophomore album from Toronto-based drone duo Northumbria, due out on November 21st.
The proper follow-up to the group's self-titled 2012 debut album was fully written, performed, and produced by the duo comprised of guitarist Jim Fields and bassist Dorian Williamson, though the album was mastered by James Plotkin, and sees the twosome further exploring the realms of often improvised, ambient metal.
A trailer for “Bring Down the Sky” produced by F Squared Media is playing below. Pre-orders are also available at this location. The track listing is as follows:
1. Transcendence
2. The Ocean Calls us Home
3. Ostara
4. The Silver Forest
5. Bring Down the Sky More...