Sig:Ar:Tyr Releasing New Album "Northen"

Sig:Ar:Tyr is pleased to announce the upcoming release of fourth full-length album, "Northen," on April 15th, 2016 via Hammerheart Records.

The first new music from Sig:Ar:Tyr since 2010’s "Godsaga" album, "Northen" blends epic pagan and viking metal atmospheres with a heavy metal heart, with nine powerful songs written to tell the tale of the Vikings' adventures in North America a thousand years ago.

Daemonskald describes the album’s theme: "Near the end of the Viking age, the Norse set out from Greenland to explore new lands to the West, now understood as the east coast of Canada, including Baffin Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and possibly even further inland to New Brunswick and the northeastern United States. Unlike the permanent settlements in Greenland, their stay here was short-lived, and we are still discovering the extent of their travels, the artifacts from their small settlements, and unfolding the tales of their interaction with the native cultures here at the time.

"This is a tale of tribute to this small group of adventurers, who with a dynamic and individualistic spirit, were willing to throw stability and comfort aside to explore mysterious new places like Helluland, Markland, and Vinland, and be their own master in a changing world. A world where their old ways and traditions were fading, a world where sons turned away from their father’s faith, and where some rediscovered the path of the Northen…”

1. Helluland
2. Crownless
3. Runarmal
4. Markland (The Hammer Fades)
5. Skraeling
6. Krossanes
7. Vinland
8. Northen
9. Last Ship Sails