Borknagar unveil new song “Summits;” new album arriving in February

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2023 has been an incredible year of new music as we’re still sorting through thousands of releases to decide which ones were our favorite this year. And now, with the announcements for 2024, we are in for another great year for fresh tunes. One of the many that have been dropping the news just a few short weeks left of the year is Norwegian progressive black metal legends Borknagar. The group has announced the follow-up to 2019’s True North with album number twelve, Fall, arriving this winter on February 23rd via Century Media Records. To coincide with the announcement, the band has unveiled a visualizer, created by Wanderley Perna /W Designer, for the album’s first single and opening track, “Summits.” The record was mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Kreator) and features cover artwork by Eliran Kantor (Testament, My Dying Bride, Sodom).

Borknagar mastermind Øystein G. Brun comments:

“We are extremely proud to present you all with our twelfth 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. 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.”