Angry Metal Guy

Vintersorg // Jordpuls
Rating: 4.5/5.0 — The Perfect Record for Spring
Label: Napalm Records
Website: myspace.com/vintersorganic
Release Dates: EU: 2011.25-28.03 | US: 04.05.2011

After a wintry silence of 4 years about a new solo record, Vintersorg is finally releasing the long awaited follow-up to Solens Rötter. If you consider the early solo career of Mr. V, this is actually pretty surprising. His fecundity has been next to almost none, producing a record a year, as well as having a myriad of other excellent projects (like Otyg, Waterclime, Havayoth, Gravisphere, being in the mighty Borknagar and I’m sure someone will correct me on something I’ve missed). But for this Angry Metal Guy the new record coming has been a worrisome thing, as the taste that was left in my mouth by Solens Rötter was a bit bitter. To date, the record is my least favorite of everything that has been released under Mr. V’s solo moniker and the decision to ditch the amazing Steve Digiorgio and Asgeir Mickelson and bass and drums, respectively, was definitely felt. So I guess the question for Jordpuls was… what next? Continue reading

Well, apparently this is another two (or possibly three if you count Gravisphere) Andreas Hedlund (Vintersorg, Otyg, Havayoth, etc.) record year. The first of the year will be the February 22nd release of Universal by Borknagar! Yes, yes, yes! I’m very interested to hear this album, as the stuff that I’ve heard thus far has been fantastic.

Here’s the official press release from Indie Recordings:

Borknagar’s upcoming album Universal will be launched for a worldwide release the 22^nd of February 2010 through Indie Recordings.

Comment about the artwork:

“We are really proud to finally reveal the cover for Universal. It has been a long process to circle in and establish the perfect visual approach for this album. A cover that is able to visually represent the album. We firmly believe that we have achieved that with the new cover and the general designs (including CD,CDL, LP and CD BOX) represent nothing less.”

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Havoc
2. Reason
3. The Stir of Seasons
4. For a Thousand Years to Come
5. Abrasion Tide
6. Fleshflower
7. Worldwide
8. My Domain (featuring guest vocals by I.C.S Vortex)

The artwork is also totally awesome.

Wow, more news today.  And, frankly, I think I’m probably the first to actually update this stuff.  So I was on the Vintersorg forum today when I came across an update that was written by him.  It basically sounds like things are pretty much in gear for him recording an album over the rest of this summer and into the fall.  Maybe we’ll have something from him in Q1 of next year?  I hope so!

Some news: I’ve now written 5-6 new Vintersorg tracks that sound really cool with a lot of folk touch but somehow it also has a touch of CG atmosphere. Just going to start to record some stuff during this summer.

A new Waterclime album is now completed, at the moment I’m noe shure who will release it. It’s a leap up in song quality and also productionwise compared to the earlier two albums.

Fission: not much happens at this time…we’re just filling up the right a mount of inspiration to start working on some stuff.

Borknagar: Concentrating on Wacken and looking forward the realese the new album “Universal“.

Cronian: Not much is actually going on at the time…we have like two-three new tracks going.

Gravisphere: Working on the recording of an album. So far keyboards are kind of completed..but you never know as it’s zillions of ‘em.

just found about ten really atmopheric track in my recording computer the other day…don’t know if I ever will do anything with it…but some ideas were special.

In other news, I’m actually awaiting an interview back from Mr. V and Stenlund from Gravisphere, so that should be cool when I get it.