Sahg
From:
Bergen,
Norway
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Sahg News
Sahg Recording New Album
Norway's Sahg has issued the following update about recruiting a new drummer and recording a new album:
"What you see here, is the new drummer in Sahg. As you probably understand, we had serious doubts about hiring this lunatic. But he turned out to be an excellent man with the right attitude and sense of commitment, and not the least, a bloody outstanding drummer! His name is Thomas Lönnheim, and he has brought a whole new groove to the table, as you will hear on the new album which is now in the making. Sahg is currently recording their third album. At the time of this update, nine new songs are being taped down for the new album, due for release on Indie Recordings early next year. Things are running smoothly in the studio, and the sessions so far have been very promising! The album is being produced by Herbrand Larsen, assisted by Ice Dale, both members of Bergen metallers Enslaved."
Hacride Confirmed For Hole In The Sky Fest 2009
Hacride have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Hole In The Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X), set to take place August 25-29 in Bergen, Norway.
The festival billing is now as follows:
Tuesday, August 25
SAHG
HACRIDE
KVELERTAK
DERIDE
KRAKOW More...
Sahg Announces New Drummer, Festival Appearances
SAHG has found a new drummer and issued the following update:
"After a long search we finally got ourselves a new drummer! His name is Thomas Lønnheim, and things work very well with him.
"The last 4-5 months we have been working on new songs, and the outlines of the next album is now slowly taking shape. It will soon be time to start planning the practical details."
Currently four festival appearances have been confirmed:
April 8, 2009 - Norway, Oslo, Inferno Festival
May 22, 2009 - Germany, Aurich, Wacken Rocks Festival
May 23, 2009 - Germany, Kreuth, Wacken Rocks Festival
July 11, 2009 - Norway Rock Festival
Wardruna Signs To Indie Recordings
Indie Recordings recently announced the signing of Wardruna for the release of their debut album, "Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga," which is due out on January 19, 2009.
The idea of Wardruna began to take shape in 2002 as a project where founder and main man Einar Kvitrafn Selvik (Jotunspor, Gorgoroth, Sahg etc.) could work with a musical expression and instrumentation very different from what his involvements in various metal bands would allow. Naturally, it also became a place where his passion for and practice of Norse paganism and runes could be combined with music.
In the spring of 2007 the project started to attract attention after it was featured on the soundtrack of the much publicized "True Norwegian Black Metal" documentary about Gaahl (Trelldom, Gorgoroth etc.) by Peter Beste and Vice Films. Despite no releases or live appearances, Wardruna has since then gathered a respectable and perhaps surprisingly diverse following.
Now, after nearly six years in the making, the long awaited debut album of Wardruna is finally finished. It is the first album in the planned "Runaljod" trilogy, which will musically interpret the runes of the elder futhark. This highly visual music is hard to place into any specific genre. The style can perhaps be described as a curious blend of folk, world and ambient music, but without being limited by the sometimes restricted scope of these genres.
"Runaljod - gap var Ginnunga" has a very profound and unique sound that consist of a wide array of instruments, some of which are seldom used nowadays. A few examples include deer hide frame drums, mouth harp, goat horns, lur, Hardanger fiddle and tagelharpe ("Viking fiddle"). Sounds of more unorthodox "instruments" like trees, stones and fire are also incorporated into the music, and it's all topped off with powerful vocal performances from no less than three vocalists.
The album was produced and engineered by Kvitrafn himself in his own, aptly named, Fimbulljóð studio. Many of the recording sessions were executed outdoors at carefully selected locations with instruments or natural sounds that are relevant to the different runes.
The band's new label, Indie Recordings, comments: "Working with Wardruna has proven to be extremely rewarding, and their friendly and professional attitude is an example for others to follow. It is an honour for Indie Recording to have this special act on our roster, bringing depth and meaning to our catalogue by putting in context the very origin of Black Metal."
In a press statement the band comments the signing and the upcoming album:
"This is an ideal partnership for Wardruna; not only will the music be distributed and promoted in the manner it deserves, we also get to work with the fine people at Indie Recordings here in ....Norway..... They have proven themselves to be very professional and dedicated to their work and I am very pleased to be able to work with them and totally confident that this is the right label for Wardruna."
You can check out some of Wardruna's material on their MySpace page.
Sahg Posts Indian Tour Recap
Norwegian metallers Sahg has posted the following tour report online:
"We have just finished our tour of India, having played five shows across the country during the Great Indian Rock festival. The tour kicked off with a small club gig in Delhi on October 30, followed by open air shows in Mumbai, Dehli, Shillong, and the grand finale at Palace Grounds, Bangalore, in front of 6,000 screaming maniacs.
"The response from the Indian audience exceeded all our expectations, and the tour has made a great first step for Sahg in India and hopefully also other parts of Asia. Our gratitude goes out to all of you who came out and made Sahg's first visit to India such a memorable experience!
"Hear recorded tracks from the show at Hamsadhvani Open Air Theater, New Dehli, on November 1, now on Sahg MySpace, more live recorded tracks from the tour will be posted shortly. Photos and video clips from the tour will also be posted soon, on Sahg MySpace and the Visuals gallery on this website. You can also discuss Sahg's performances at Great Indian Rock on the Sahg MySpace blog and the official Sahg Forum."
Sahg Forced To Cancel Indian Shows
Norwegian metallers Sahg have been forced to cancel their shows at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (October 25th) and the Great Indian Rock on November 5th in Kolkata.
Sahg's tour schedule is now as follows:
October
30 - New Dehli, India - Turquoise Cottage
31 - Mumbai, India - Great Indian Rock
November
1 - New Dehli, India - Great Indian Rock/Hamsadhvani Open Air Theater
5 - Shilong, India - TBA
7 - Bangalore, India - Great Indian Rock/Palace Grounds
28 - Bergen, Norway - Garage
Contraband Candy Posts "Inferno Festival Special"
Part 1 of the Contraband Candy 3-part Inferno Festival Special is online, featuring three great interviews with Frost and Ravn of 1349, Obsidian C of Keep of Kalessin and King, talking about Sahg. And that's just for starters. Included in the festival craziness are unique live clips and video plus original live gig photography by Maud of Darkvision Photography.
You can watch Part 1 of the "Inferno Festival Special" here (or below).
Part 2 will be released in exactly a week's time on May 14 and Part 3 will follow on May 21. More...
Sahg Posts Post-Tour Update
Norwegian metallers SAHG have issued the following update:
"We have just returned from the Sahg II European tour, having played some great shows across the continent. We toured along with headliner TROUBLE and GORILLA MONSOON, with whom we had many good times (and drinks) also off stage.
The tour kicked off in Bologna, Italy, on April 8, and continued to Belgium, before we played five shows in Germany. On the last night, April 20, we played London, England, in front of a magnificent audience, who created a great finale for the tour (click image).
For more pics from the tour, click here, go on to Photo gallery and European tour April 2008.
We were pleased to see so many new fans along the way. Big cheers to everyone who turned up at the concerts, we hope you had as great a time as we had!"
Contraband Candy Posts Inferno Festival Trailer
Contraband Candy is wrapping up production on their first-ever all-original-material festival special. To get you in the mood, they've released an action-packed trailer on ContrabandCandy.com (also embedded below/after the jump). The preview/trailer features interviews with King of Gorgoroth and Sahg, Nergal of Behemoth, Maniac, once of Mayhem and now with blackened doom-punks Skitliv, the outrageous and controversial Kvarforth of Shining and loads more. More...
Sahg Streaming New Songs Online
Five new songs from Norwegian metallers SAHG's latest album, Sahg II, are now available for streaming at this location. In addition to ’Ascent To Decadence’, you can hear ’Pyromancer’, ’Echoes Ring Forever’, ’Star-Crossed’, ’Escape The Crimson Sun’ and ’Monomania’ from the recently released Sahg II album, out now via Regain.
“This album is definitely a big step forward for us, both musically and technically/sound-wise,” commented guitarist/vocalist Olav Iversen recently. “The songs are more diverse on Sahg II because we have allowed ourselves to think more freely and be more receptive to a wider range of inspiration. There are so many directions we want to explore with this band, and this is just what we had time for in this round.”
