[Cover photo credit to Henk van Rijssen]

For the past 15 years, Faber Horbach has traced our connection with the sun through the music of Sowulo, but his upcoming concept album “journeys into darkness.” The album titled NIHT arrives on August 29th, 2025 via Season of Mist.

Written while grieving the loss of both his father and stepfather, “Sōl ond Māni”, the new single from NIHT, is “a mythopoetic lament.” Looking to Norse cosmology,  “Sōl ond Māni” explores “the loss of both light and life by using a broken instrument to give death a voice.”

“Sōl ond Māni” takes inspiration from Scandinavian mythology. The grieving vocals tell the story of the Sun and the Moon being chased by two mythological wolves until the time of Ragnarök.

Horbach says:

The wolves will catch the sun and moon when that fated time comes and their light will spill like blood until there will be no light left. This will leave the world in fimbulwinter, when only darkness and conflict remains.

Last year, Horbach lost both his father and stepfather. Their absence echoes throughout “Sōl ond Māni” through the strings of a broken Nyckelharpa. This fiddle-like instrument accidentally fell onto the ground following one of Sowulo’s live performances.

Horbach continues:

Writing this song became a way to give the death of this instrument a voice. To let it sing through its brokenness and turn that into something meaningful.      

The music video for “Sōl ond Māni” was filmed and directed by Vincent de Fallois. Color grading was done by Micky Huijsmans.

Sowulo will make their return to Castlefest this Friday, August 1, 2025.