DODHEIMSGARD - Black Medium Current [2lp] (2LP)

‘Black Medium Current’ is the sixth studio album by longstanding Norwegian avant-garde pioneers
Dødheimsgard. From their influential and successful beginnings as a raw and grim black metal outfit
established during the ongoing swelling of the 'second wave' in the early-mid 90s, Dødheimsgard
has subsequently evolved into a truly eclectic behemoth with each landmark release; a band now
undoubtedly adorned with the mastery of mood and texture through intricate, dark metallic
wonderment and unnerving eloquence.
‘Black Medium Current’ continues on the path set by 2015’s monumental and universally lauded ‘A
Umbra Omega’ album; itself a deeply poignant and potent release of vast maturity and insight. And
now mastermind Yusaf ‘Vicotnik’ Parvez returns with this expansive 70 minute venture through the
fettered layers of the bleak existential cosmos. The result is an absorbing exploration through the
fragility of the mind - nurtured and ultimately unmade through a process of belief and endless
turmoil and contradiction, and how it sews itself into our reality.
‘Black Medium Current’ also represents a very personal album for Vicotnik, riding the torrents of
tribulation and loss, lusciously entwined within creation. Haunting, cathartic and exquisite moments
of reflection, dissected, and presented as a meticulously woven canvas of masterful and stirring
music taking in a whole host of atmospheres and soundscapes encompassing the divine and the
bizarre, from the depths of black metal, to sombre more classically centred piano pieces.