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As a precursor to the release of "Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk," the band delivered a video for first single and opening track, “Ábær.” Offers Kapnas, “‘Ábær’ is about sailing through a hurricane, through ocean valleys, in a rowing boat and surviving it. The waves crashing, the wind and rain beating and biting you, death greeting you everywhere you look. Perseverance, melancholy, dread, willpower, endurance and doubt interweave with every note and word.”

Jón Aldará - vocals
Theodor Kapnas - guitars
Eyðun í Geil Hvannastein - guitars
Esmar Joensen - keyboards
Remi Kofoed Johannesen - drums
Jenus í Trøðini - bass

Video Credits:
Directed by Gaui H Pic
Choreographer: Búi Rouch
Performers: Búi Rouch, Vár Árting Bech

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Ábær

Horvna eimin í mær
Átti tú, bert og altíð tú
Tað var tá, mítt blóð
Ja, tað var tá eg livdi

Mín sál fyri vág og vind
Fyri miskunn varganna
Tykist sum ein øld
Ið krýpur so æviga køld
Um øll heimins mykja
Stendur til at loypa
Um mína skirvisgirðing
Ongin fyrigeving

Svárt syngur ein bløðandi hevd
Stendur mær tvør
Hon vinnur so dánt við sítt flog
Og aldri nemur við jørð

Ein bylgja slær meint á mítt borð
Lívlínan fløkt
Veikt stórlætið logar í lógv
Síðan í alla tíð sløkt

Feigdin kom mær til góðar
Nú ill eru ráðini
Ábær, ábær
Ber sál fyri brotasjógv
Ábær

English translation:
To the Storm

The faded fire in me
Was yours, only and always yours
It was then, my blood
Yes, it was then that I lived

My soul to the elements
To the mercy of beasts
Seems like an age
Which slithers eternally cold
If all the dung of the world
Stands to collapse
Across my frail enclosure
No forgiveness is granted

A bleeding claim laments
Stands in my way
It ascends and barely takes flight
Never returns to the ground

A vicious breaker hits my bough
My lifeline tangled
On the shore my pride dimly flickers
Then extinguished forever

Doom came to my aid
Now there is no further resort
To the storm, to the storm
Soul bared to the churning seas
To the storm

Pre-Order Voidkind (out April 19, 2024) here: https://www.metalblade.com/dvne/

"Pleroma is a concept that has appeared in Gnosticism, Greek Philosophy & Judeo-Christian religions.in Gnosticism, it is the spiritual universe as the abode of God and of the totality of the divine powers and emanations. It is also the ultimate source of transformation.
Plerõmā is a key moment of the album narrative where religious followers are consuming the essence of their deity and reach a new sense of awakened existence. It is the first step in their transformation."

Voidkind succeeds in finding new modes of expression for DVNE. The songs are more pointed, direct, and memorable, but the soundscape still has a radiant, evolving, hypnotic flow, the effect achieved with fewer layers of sonic ornamentation, consciously urging closer to DVNE’s incendiary live sound. And despite the addition of a full-time keyboardist, Vicart has no doubt about the album’s defining feature, “We wanted very distinct left and right guitars, and punchier drums and bass, which would transcribe better live. And the synths needed to be clearer; it’s very easy to put five guitars on each side, loads of different vocals and keys, but then you end up watching a band with an album you really like, and the songs sound nothing like the record. That’s what we wanted to avoid. As soon as the song starts, we want people to immediately recognise the riff.”

Music video Staff
Directed by Victor Vicart
Director of photography : Just-A. Meissonnier
Video Editing & Colouring: Daniel Barter
Actors: “Zealot Leader” - Mason Tait; “Zealot Followers” - Daniel Barter & Alexandros Keros
Costumes & Props design: Alexandros Keros & Victor Vicart
Masks design: Jason Corbett
Light Design: Sam Jones

Lyrics:
Generations journey reach the hallowed end.
Suspended water, plasma of the sacrament.
The Black key of the veil.
The black path of water bridges transcendency.

Corporeal constraints.
Corporeal shedding.

Cimerian weeping caught in tired chaliced hands.
Disciples parched lips, imbibe sable revered essence.
With dried throats consumed to expand, into divine command.

Ethereal vision's dawn.
Ethereal Inception.

Seeing through hidden screens,
Woven branches undulate.
Weaves of crystal replicate.

#dvne #progmetal #metalbladerecords

Buy here: http://www.metalblade.com/midnight
The new album "Hellish Expectations" will be out March 8, 2024.

One-man-army, Athenar, has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits, and EPs for over two decades, ultimately slaying the metal/punk underground with his own, highly addictive brand of lust, grime, and sleaze. Filthy, belligerent, and unapologetically obnoxious, MIDNIGHT makes music to start fights to and in 2024 Athenar returns with Hellish Expectations, a ten-track sonic assault of blackened heavy metal nefariousness.

"It’s a knuckle dragger with a fat cutoff,” elaborates Athenar, “Pure testosterone meat. Probably the most concise and straight to the point MIDNIGHT album to date, and all written in a weekend. The album was written on pure reaction upon leaving the studio after listening to raw tracks from the previous album Let There Be Witchery. The final mix of that album was good, but at the time of laying it down in the studio, I didn't like what I was hearing and demanded a new leviathan of an album to be written that weekend."

LYRICS:
Why would i want you to die?
So you could be free?
Don't want to see you in hell
Not next to me

Leave you to revel in pain
No signs of remorse
The hammer of fate hits hard
With violent force

Fuck off and live!
Fuck off, fuck off and live!
Fuck off, fuck off and live!

Some may say it's enough to FOAD
So reek rot decay gloriously, gloriously

Fuck off and live bastard!

Fuck off and live!
Fuck off, fuck off and live!
Fuck off, fuck off and live!

Don't waste your time to pray
For terminal grief
Your fortune is fester
Your spirit never released

Crawl on your knees to the grave
And hope it's the end
The reaper denies all pleas
For your soul to rest, no rest from the reaper

Fuck off and live!

#midnight #metalbladerecords #hellishexpectations