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News: BORKNAGAR Launch new single/video Nordic Anthem


Norway‘s pioneers of avantgarde/progressive Black Metal BORKNAGAR are releasing their upcoming monumental 12th studio album Fall worldwide on February 23rd, 2024 via longtime record label partners Century Media Records.

Today, a second single off the upcoming Fall album is being released. Check out Nordic Anthem in a video created by Marius Martinsen, Kenneth Williams and Lars A. Nedland via the production company High & Low here: https://youtu.be/7hxKHRqCRdA

BORKNAGAR commented about Nordic Anthem as follows: “So many gods. So many beliefs. So much conflict. Nordic Anthem is about rejecting any kind of doctrine, religious or political. It‘s about going to your own nature, your inner core, and finding strength and freedom. Our perspective is a northern one – we‘re from the north after all – but this is a firm stance that is universally applicable. It‘s about finding and trusting your own values, your own heritage, and standing up against gods and authorities trying to push doctrine to control you, or corrupt you. This is our collective anthem. We won‘t bend our knee to any god!”

Previously, the album‘s first single and opening track Summits was made available in a visualizer clip created by Wanderley Perna / W Designer here: https://youtu.be/Wh0jrqz-eow

Fall includes 8 majestic tracks across 54 epic minutes of playing time, once again brilliantly mixed by Jens Bogren / Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Kreator), and featuring stunning album cover artwork by Eliran Kantor (Testament, My Dying Bride, Sodom), which can be seen above.

BORKNAGAR founder and mastermind Øystein G. Brun comments about Fall as follows: "We are extremely proud to present you all with our 12th album entitled Fall, another chapter of our musical journey. In many ways “Fall” represents a continuation of “True North”, but as always, we are pushing further and afar to seek even broader and more challenging horizons. Musically we are loyal to our musical legacy, but we have most certainly walked through fire and ice to reach our highest peak yet. Although Fall represents a wide array of musical and lyrical ideas, the fundamental theme behind the album is based on the fascination and appreciation of the very outskirts of life. Those places, and those beings, in the vast periphery of our own existence that very few live to see or even learn to know about- but still are profoundly essential for our existence. With Fall we seek to portray and cherish all that holds up and pushes boundaries - against the great fall."

“Fall” is the follow up to 2019‘s widely acclaimed True North studio album and will be available as limited first-pressing Digipak CD, Gatefold 2-LP on 180gr vinyl and as Digital Album with the following tracklist:

BORKNAGAR – Fall (54:30)

1. Summits (07:58)

2. Nordic Anthem (05:14)

3. Afar (06:54)

4. Moon (05:51)

5. Stars Ablaze (08:26)

6. Unraveling (04:33)

7. The Wild Lingers (05:34)

8. Northward (09:54)

The vinyl edition of Fall will be available in the following variants:

- Gatefold black 2LP

- Ltd. Gatefold neon orange 2LP (300x copies, available from cmdistro.de & various other retailers) – Sold Out!

- Ltd. Gatefold transp. bottle green 2LP (300x copies, available from EMP & Nuclear Blast)

Make sure to pre-order Fall in its various formats here: https://borknagar.lnk.to/Fall



BORKNAGAR have already announced a first string of festival appearances for 2024, while further international touring to support the release of Fall will be revealed soon. Check out BORKNAGAR‘s upcoming dates here:

BORKNAGAR – Live 2024:

01.-02.03.2024 Viborg (Denmark) - Viborg Metal Festival

28.-31.03.2024 Oslo (Norway) - Inferno Festival

20.-23.06.2024 Dessel (Belgium) - Graspop Metal Meeting

26.-28.07.2024 Sibiu (Romania) - Art Mania Festival

28.07.-03.08.2024 Velenje (Slovenia) - Metal Days

22.-24.08.2024 Spital am Semmering (Austria) - Kaltenbach Open Air

And more shows to be announced soon…

Fall into BORKNAGAR, share the grand struggle against the wild in all of us...

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