[Cover photo credit to Jørn Veberg]

Norwegian Grammy winners Gaahls Wyrd have released the single and video “And the Now”, revealing what’s at the heart of their upcoming second album. The third single spun from Braiding the Stories turns Black Metal into something darker and dreamier. Braiding the Stories is out June 6th, 2025 on Season of Mist.

This third single takes audiences deeper into the album’s “White Lodge”, which “floats somewhere between dreams and the subconscious.”

“And the Now” was recorded at Solslottet Studio in Bergen, Norway, and Produced alongside Iver Sandøy (Enslaved, Wardruna).

Gaahl says about the album:

I always work with the subconscious. And dreams are where we are at the most aware of our subconsciousness, I think. In a way, Braiding the Stories is a continuation [of ‘The Sleep’] but told from a different perspective. So, to simplify, Braiding the Stories deals with dreams. Not specific dreams, though. The transitions of dreams, emotions flowing from one to another without pause. Everything I do tends to end up with a melancholic flow and feel without it necessarily being an idea–it just happens, really–but I avoided that this time around. It’s less physical. I referred to the White Lodge before. This time around, I feel I visited the White Lodge not the Black Lodge.