[Cover photo credit to Jørn Veberg]
Norwegian pioneers of Avantgarde and Progressive Black Metal Borknagar have announced their upcoming 12th studio album, Fall, which will be released worldwide on February 23rd, 2024 via Century Media Records. They have also revealed the album‘s first single and opening track “Summits” as well as a visualizer created by Wanderley Perna / W Designer.
Fall was mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Kreator) and features album cover artwork by Eliran Kantor (Testament, My Dying Bride, Sodom).
Borknagar founder Øystein G. Brun comments on the new album:
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.
Øystein G. Brun adds the following about the new track:
From the day you are born, nature will do everything in its power to get you back into the ground. The lonesome struggle of being you or the mighty struggle of all life, will eventually tear you down from the inside – or from the outside. But for the short glimpse of time we endure, we all seek the ultimate heights of our very own existence. Our first single “Summits”, from the upcoming album “Fall”, scopes in on this everlasting drama of life – where the drama unfolds – at the very outskirts of life.
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.
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
