Fornhem
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Sweden
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Fornhem News
Below is our complete Fornhem 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.
Fornhem Posts Title Track Of New Album Online
Fornhem ("Ancient Home)" have released the glacial title track of their forthcoming new album "Stämman Från Berget" ("The Voice from the Mountain"), which is scheduled to hit the stores on November 5, 2021. The Swedish black metal trio has previously revealed the tracklist and further details of their harsh second full-length, which can be viewed below, where you can also check out the song.
Fornhem comment: "While reading the first chapters of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Also sprach Zarathustra', I found myself fascinated with the romantic setting of a hermit living on a mountain for ten years", philosophises drummer, vocalist, and lyricist Vafthrudner. "With only a serpent and an eagle – which are symbolically quite interesting animals by the way – as friends, the hermit strives to find illumination. Once he reaches enlightenment, the hermit descends from the mountain to the next village to pronounce a simple yet profoundly provocative truth: 'Gott ist tot' – God is dead. As this album starts with a song about the desperation of losing one's God or indeed, the loneliness of existence, this track closes a circle. We have reached the same conclusion as Zarathustra: God is dead. Therefore Emptiness rules again and it is up to ourselves, not to find, but to give meaning to our lives." More...
Fornhem Reveals New Album Details
Fornhem ("Ancient Home)" are now releasing the video single "Uþarba Spa." The track is taken from the Swedish black metal trio's forthcoming album "Stämman från Berget" ("The Voice from the Mountain"), which is slated for release on November 5, 2021. Cover art, tracklist, and further details of this harsh full-length can be viewed below. The video "Uþarba Spa" can be seen below.
The title "Uþarba Spa" derives from a partial transcript of the inscription on the famously large runestone of Björketorp, Sweden. This stunning 4 metre high stone towers over a pre-Viking age grave-field in unique setting aligned with other stones that is thought to form a consecrated area. The debated proto-Norse inscription written in a late version of the Elder Futhark uses the Galdralag metre supposedly associated with Germanic spells. 'Uþarba Spa' probably translates as "I foretell perdition."
Fornhem comments: "The runic inscription on the Björketorp stone constitutes a curse or a threat, which makes it quite unique among this type of monument in Sweden and elsewhere', explains drummer, vocalist, and lyricist Vafthrudner. "My lyrics are written from the perspective of one of the deceased, buried close to the stone, whose spirit warns us mortals not to disturb the slumber of the dead. The title and the lyrics are also a tribute to our former project, Fördärv, which in English means something like 'ruin' or 'devastation'. The word literally appears in these lyrics: 'Jag spår fördärv', which translates as 'I predict ruin'. The past is alive!" More...
New Metal Albums August 25th
Friday has arrived and that means a slew of new metal and hard rock albums are now available digitally, via label mail order, or in that dwindling number of stores that still carry physical products. Honestly, I'm not even sure if you can still buy CDs where I live since all our record shops shut down.
So, what's out this week that's actually worth hearing though? Below we've rounded up the best of mainstream and indie releases across the entire genre spectrum that you should be checking out. From black metal to stoner rock to prog, here's what's out today (August 25th):
Howling Giant - "Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 2" (fuzz / stoner rock)
Grande Royale - "Breaking News" (heavy hard rock)
The Haunted - "Strength In Numbers" (death / thrash)
Dagoba - "Black Nova" (groove / industrial metal)
Mordatorium - "Obsessed With Death" (death metal)
Crimfall - "Amain" (symphonic power / viking metal)
Ledge - "Cold Hard Concrete" (sludge)
The New Roses -"One More For The Road" (hard rock)
Crafteon - "Cosmic Reawakening" (black metal)
Fornhem - "Ett Fjärran Kall" (black metal)
Alazka - "Phoenix" (post-hardcore)
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - "Finisterre" (black metal)
Brendon Small's Galaktikon - "Galaktikon II: Become The Storm" (melodic death metal)
Chastain - "We Bleed Metal 17" (power metal)
Leprous - "Malina" (prog)
Nervecell - "Past, Present…Torture" (death / thrash)
Phantoms - "Screaming on the Inside" (post-metalcore)
Jack Starr's Burning Starr - "Stand Your Ground" (classic heavy metal)
Inanimate Existence - "Underneath a Melting Sky" (tech death)
What are you picking up this week, and did we miss anything that drops today you think should make the list? Let us know in the comments! More...
Fornhem Posts New Song
Primeval Swedish black metal duo Fornhem will release debut album "Ett Fjärran Kall" (“A Call From Afar”) this coming August 25th release via Trollmusic. Today, new track "Úrdjupets Svärta" comes online and can be heard below.
Fornhem was established in 2013 with a desire to conjure up the mysteries of nature. While members Vafthrudner (drums, vocals) and Solbane (guitars, bass, stringed instruments) undoubtedly owe a lot to the aesthetics originally crafted by the pioneers of Scandinavian black metal, they nevertheless create their own approach and style by interpreting influences from a broad spectrum of folk and rock music in a consciously minimal and almost hypnotizing way. The band's lyrics are in Swedish and inspired by history, Norse mythology, nature and Swedish poetry.
“Our aim is to make music that moves forward, even if it’s minimal and repetitive, and we think that adding something or making slight alterations in a riff or chord progression makes it come alive and breathe, so to speak, which would be the whole meaning of music-making," explains Vafthrudner. “Black metal in general is quite beautiful music behind all the layers of noise and we want to enhance that by using minimalism. Quieter moments or acoustic instruments create interesting dynamics that oppose the ‘wall of noise.'"
Reflecting on the folk aspect of Fornhem, Solbane adds: “I think folk music -- as well as metal -- has an inherent catchiness to it. It’s simple and direct music that comes from the heart. We are certainly influenced by a wide variety of Nordic folk and 70's and 80's classic hard rock and metal, but our main influence is old school black metal. Most notably Burzum, Darkthrone and Bathory." More...