Brothers Of Metal’’s third studio album, Fimbulvinter, is due out 1st November via AFM Records. Ahead of that is their lates single, ‘Nanna’s Fate’.
Commenting on the single, Vocalist Mats Nilsson said: “‘Nanna’s Fate’ is very special for me since some parts of the song was written already 25 years ago. The intro I wrote when I was 15 but I never found the right song to connect it with until me, Ylva Dawid started writing the song.
“The lyrical theme is about a love so strong that it persist even through death. The god Balder dies and on his funeral ceremony his wife Nanna dies from sorrow as his ship is set ablaze. She is put together with him on his ship so that they can reunited in death.”
Available to stream here, you can check out the lyric video to the single here at RAMzine, as you can their previous single.
The Swedish collective recorded 13 new album tracks, that feature their typical mythological Nordic focus, but in addition, there are songs such as ‘Heavy Metal Viking’, that are somewhat unusual for the band. This was the band’s previous single. As Nilsson explained: “‘Heavy Metal Viking’ has a sort of 80s southern hard rock feel, which is far from what you’d expect us to be doing.”
Brothers Of Metal are a spectacular phenomenon on the international metal scene, their catchy yet powerful songs and martial outfits, including archaic weaponry, paying homage to both heavy metal and the Norse gods. Their first two album releases Prophecy Of Ragnarök (2017) and Emblas Saga (2020) have earned the Swedish band an outstanding reputation, and now, ready to take the next step: their forthcoming studio album Fimbulvinter showcases all of the eight-piece’s strengths, but is said to include some significant new elements.
“The core sound is still there, but we’ve also evolved as songwriters, so the songs have more depth and width than before,” Nilsson pointed out. “Our songs follow the same themes as before even though we’ve ventured into new territories and explored new stories, as it were. We always aim to have one song that fits everyone on each album, with the result that our hymns tend to sound like a lot of different genres of metal. That’s how we like it. We’re Brothers Of Metal, we can play whatever we want to!”
For those not up on their Norse mythology, Nilsson explained the album title’s meaning: “Fimbulvinter is the great winter in Norse mythology. A winter that is colder and darker than all other winters and lasts for three years. It’s one of the first significant indications that Ragnarök is coming.”
Most of the songs for the record were penned by guitarist Dawid Grahn and singer Ylva Eriksson. The other band members were also involved in the songwriting process, namely Mats Nilsson and Joakim Lindbäck Eriksson (both vocals), guitarist Pähr Nilsson, bassist Emil Wärmedal, drummer Johan Johansson and some additions from new live guitarist Christian Larsson.
Fimbulvinter was recorded at the Massiv Musik’s Studio in Mockfjärd, Sweden and, like its predecessors, produced by Erik Berglund. Artist Sallai Péter contributed the cover design again, emphasising the tracks’ Nordic flair visually. Speaking of which, if you can’t wait to see Brothers Of Metal live on stage, you will have the opportunity to do so from November onwards when the band embarks on an extensive European headline tour through nine countries, alongside selected festival appearances this summer, albeit there’s only one UK concert announced and that at the 02 Academy Islington in London on 20th November,
You can order Fimbulvinter here.
