In the meanwhile, we have created a bandcamp page for those who might be interested in our visions: vemod.bandcamp.com

Years are seconds. The journey has only just begun. The Vemodian Society bids Thee welcome!

VEMOD – Vinterilden

Ancient fires are still burning in the far reaches of the north. New suns are pulsating and ascending in an ever darkening nightsky. These visions give birth to the rise of new magnificent monuments somewhere in the shadows between night and day, though they offer but a glimpse of what is to come.

Dark and atmospheric ambient metal pointing far beyond itself.

ASTRAL WINDS – First Journeys

Floating through starcaves, admiring the the distant lights in silence through the walls of a formless vessel. It left a long time ago. Now – there is no end. No end.

40 minutes of astral ambient and star music.

ASKEREGN – Undergangsglimt

The bloodred gaze is upon us. Storms are stirring in ancient primeval wells. The forests are burning, the oceans are boiling. Glimpse the inevitable through the rain of ashes. Askeregn is another path.

Primitive blackness from Østre Toten.

VILAINS BONSHOMMES – Éternité Retrouvée

So this is the trembling end of our time, and new stars are already glimmering in the darkness. We walk the endless paths of the labyrinth as time is rotating around the crypt. Swallow the sun and let shine its light. Behold the new dawn.

Avant-garde symbolist dark wave.

All of these are available in regular black-and-white editions as well as limited coloured editions (as seen on the pictures above). These latter limited editions are only available from Fossbrenna Creations directly.

Labels and distros interested in distributing these should get in touch for wholesale prices, but please be aware that we operate with master(s) + covers only. Only a very few selected trades are accepted, as long as there is no operational distro/mailorder here. Thank you for understanding.

FBM009 Vilains Bonshommes – Éternité Retrouvée

FBM008 Askeregn – Undergangsglimt

FBM007 Astral Winds – First Journeys

FBM006 Vemod – Vinterilden

Limited coloured version will be available from us, as well as the regular versions.  Our dubbing equipment broke down here (again), but everything will be up as soon as possible. The regular versions are already available from a small handful of distros.

It’s like nature. Always different, always the same.

In the beginning, it was all about black metal. Or rather: my view of black metal, which also changed a lot over time, naturally. Very well. The experience was intense, passionate, real. The situation sounds familiar, doesn’t it? You manage to express what you want to within these frames. It’s almost like you don’t need anything else.

For a while.

Then things start to change. The endless debate about “what is” and “what is not” becomes slightly tiring. Always these definitions, limits, borders. Excluding this, excluding that. The constant narrowing. For some it’s strengthening, assuring, safe. Great! For others it’s somewhat claustrophobic and artisticly suffocating. Not so great.

I came to think about all this by a coincidence. Or, I have of course thought about it many times, over and over, but it became particularly clear to me today, when a moment of intense nostalgia rushed through me. I took a walk in the forest with an album in my ears I haven’t listened to in several years, I believe: the first self-titled album of Borknagar.

Here is one of the best tracks off this magnificent album:

It’s not black metal (no “satanic” elements, musically divergent from genre milestones), it’s definitely not folk (despite the folkloric vibe), it’s not really anything else either. In fact, I think it’s rather original and unique. The atmosphere and feeling of this album is really something special. I cannot think of any other piece of music that makes me feel this particular way. It’s very harsh and inaccessible in its own way, yet when you get to know it, it breathes and grows like a living thing. Very organic indeed.

Fifteen years after its release it still stands out as a rock solid album. Both the full tracks and the interludes are splendidly woven together into a steady whole. And that whole is a remarkably honest and authentic, and not overly romantic, portrait of nordic nature as it is.

Great musicianship (probably one of the best performances Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg ever did in metal, by the way) is neatly combined with the raw and the primitive here. It’s simple, yet complex. Again, like nature. The emotion it evokes is hard to describe in words, but this album definitely possess what’s needed to stand out. There is nothing trendy about it, whatsoever. It doesn’t belong to any particular “wave” or “current”. I guess I like that.

By no means, I do not compare Borknagar to anything released on Fossbrenna Creations. However, it’s a good example of the intrinsic quality of atmosphere I am striving for. Strong, passionate and honest in its obscurity. Even slightly unorthodox and original. What a terrific combination.

Borknagar moved on to new territory which I cannot really relate that much to, but it doesn’t matter. Their first album will always be very special to me. It was one of the albums I listened to a lot in the early days, and it had, together with several others of course, a deep impact on the formative years, and thus also on the spirit in which Fossbrenna Creations was founded.

It’s good to know that it’s still possible to go through “portals” (i.e. the nostalgic moments) like these, backwards in time, to experience the purity of the early visions once again. It can make one focus, and make one remember what one really wants. Let us hope that the simplicity of youth and the complexity of experience combined can make great things.

In the meantime (while we’re waiting for great things), we are working to finish four (!) new Fossbrenna Creations releases. More information (names, titles, etc) to be announced soon.

Information and tickets: www.holeinthesky.no

For all the hungry and the damned, the untamed and the unchained! We gather in chaos. There will be blood.

Both “Tandava” and “One Tail, One Head” contain songs released earlier in demo versions on our demotapes. However, these are the final versions which we feel communicates the true power of the songs. Listeners who prefers the uglier rehearsal-ish sound should still be able to listen to the demos – no need to complain. Re-recorded in Brygga Studios and partly re-arranged. This time we offer a clear vision of our Nidrosian madness.

One Tail, One Head – “Tandava” 7″ EP (500 copies):

One Tail, One Head – “One Tail, One Head” 7″ EP (500 copies):

Have a listen to two sample tracks!

“In The Golden Light” (from “Tandava”):

“One Tail, One Head” (From “One Tail, One Head”):