Following the expansive taster of ‘Abyss Perihelion Transit’, Dødheimsgard return with their spectacular second single ‘Det Tomme Kalde Mørke’. Translated from its native Norwegian, the track means ‘The Cold Empty Darkness’ and after the slow burn of the first single, the second track instead proves just how much of a venomous bite is in Dødheimsgard’s theological bark. Beginning with furious blast beats, the track ebbs and flows exuding emotion and dynamism with flourishes of electronica that season the melting pot of subgenres.

Regarding the single Vicotnik had the following to say:

“This lyric feels oddly deterministic. Where will represented through self-image and your destiny doesn’t match up. The currents will hold your hand downstream. It is your story for better or worse.

The sense of defeat, not necessarily all negative, but rather intrinsic path towards self-honesty. Willingly giving into destiny, and thus, in a sense free? Do I have moral liberty, or is my  freedom of will rather restrained to whether I choose to be honest about what I am? I acknowledge will, whether it is free or not.”

Vicotnik continues:

“Maybe this is my key to my false dilemma? The compatibilist notion that my world has to be deterministic for there to even exist a will. This cold empty darkness, where you find yourself, void of your special pleading. My greatest failure and triumph, acknowledging who I am”.

Accompanying the single is a video made entirely by Victotnik himself. The clip features moments that were documented by NASA itself from it’s The Universe film as well as the 1973 animated film ‘Fantastic Planet’. Dødheimsgard have often been regarded as a force that transcends it’s musical confines and this fantastic and otherworldly video reminds of just why that is.

Regarding the video Vicotnik had the following to say:

“This video portrays a journey through the cold empty darkness, with the many features of perceived realities, both rising and crumbling. I am thinking, that what story it has to tell, I would like to leave it to the person making the journey. We won’t all see and hear the same thing and that is kind of the point.”

‘Black Medium Current’ track listing:

1.  Et Smelter [10:19]
2. Tankespinnerens Smerte
3. Interstellar Nexus [08:01]
4. It Does Not Follow [08:24]
5. Voyager [01:46]
6. Halow [09:37]
7. Det Tomme Kalde Morke [07:35]
8. Abyss Perihelion Transit [10:59]
9. Requiem Aeternum [05:13]

• CD (Digipak)
• Black gatefold LP
• Digital