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Norwegian Viking Metallers HELHEIM are set to debut a track from their upcoming album “Heiðindómr ok Mótgangr” on Derek Rice’s “Raise the Dead” show on the US Community Radio station KDVS, Davis 90.3FM.  As well as debuting the track, titled “Viten og Mot (Stolthet)”, the show will feature an interview with HELHEIM vocalist/bassist V’gandr (TAAKE, AETERNUS).  “Raise the Dead” will air at midnight on Friday 18th March California time / 08:00 a.m. Saturday 19^th Central European Time – and can be streamed live at http://www.kdvs.org/show-info/1466.  Following its airing on the show, the track will be available on the band’s MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/helheimnorway

“Heiðindómr ok Mótgangr” will be HELHEIM’s seventh full-length album, and it follows on last November’s release of the MCD “Åsgards Fall”, which served as an introduction to the new album.  Recorded at Conclave and Earshot Studio in Bergen with producer Bjørnar Nilsen (VULTURE INDUSTRIES, BLACK HOLE GENERATOR) at the helm and mastered by Herbrand Larsen (ENSLAVED), the nine-track album includes guest appearances from TAAKE’s Hoest, Gunnar Emmerhoff (EMMERHOFF & THE MELANCHONY BABIES), PV Staff and Trine Mjanger.  The first edition of  “Heiðindómr ok Mótgangr”  will include a bonus-DVD containing concerts from the 2009 With Full Force and Inferno Festivals, as well as the videos for ”Dualitet og Ulver”, ”Stones To The Burden” and ”Jernskogen”.

Due for release in Norway on the 1^st of April and world-wide on the 23^rd of May, “Heiðindómr ok Mótgangr”  will be the band’s first release to be sung entirely in Norwegian since ”Blod og ild” in 2000.  Commenting on the track that the band will debut, V’gandr explained:  “Viten og Mot (Stolthet)” means Knowledge and Courage (Pride).  It is one of four lyrics on the album that are based on the words of Odin (Håvamål).  Stolthet (Pride) is about preparing yourself to meet your enemies armed with both wisdom and skill.  It’s about looking your enemies straight in the eyes and showing them who you are, rather than looking towards the heavens for protection or guidance.  In the long run we are all alone and only through Knowledge, Courage and Pride can we achieve our goals”.

Below you can see the video of HELHEIM’s “Dualitet og Ulver” which features a guest appearance from TAAKE’s Hoest.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Helheim MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/helheimnorway
Helheim Website: http://www.helheim.com
Helheim Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/helheimnorway
Helheim  YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/frosjo
Band Contact: helheim@helheim.com
Promo & Additional Info: post@karismarecords.no

Following the release in November of “Åsgards Fall”, Norwegian Viking Metallers HELHEIM have released a video for a track taken from the MCD.  “Dualitet og Ulver”,  which features a guest appearance by TAAKE’s Hoest, both on the track itself and on the video, was filmed in the mountains surrounding the band’s home town of Bergen.  The video can be seen on HELHEIM’s YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fw_nsSHeA

Always a band that celebrates and respects its ancient Nordic heritage, HELHEIM has taken the story of two wolves, Hati and Skoll, for “Dualitet og Ulver”, which translated means “Duality and Wolves”.  Legend has it that the two wolves tried swallow the sun and the moon, and the song uses this imagery to illustrate that there can be no light without darkness and no day without night. If either is destroyed, be it by natural catastrophe, or human actions, only primordial chaos will remain.  Both are hanging by a fragile thread that can easily be torn apart by the wolf, which is one of earth’s natural predators.  The duality of light and darkness must therefore be preserved and balanced not only by nature, but also my humans.

The six-track “Åsgards Fall” MCD, which was released on Dark Essence Records, contains two epic new tracks, written especially for this release, as well as a new recording of the HELLHEIM classic “Jernskogen”, originally found on the “Blod & Ild” album. “Dualitet og Ulver” itself is the video-mix of the track that will appear on the band’s forthcoming full-length release “Heiðenðomr ok Motgangr”, due out at the beginning of 2011.  Recorded at the Conclave and Earshot studios in Bergen, “Åsgards Fall” was produced by HELHEIM and Bjornar Nilsen (VULTURE INDUSTRIES, BLACK HOLE GENERATOR), and was mastered by Herbrand Larsen (ENSLAVED, AUDREY HORNE).

The next live appearance by HELHEIM will be at the launch of “Heiðenðomr ok Motgangr” at Kvarteret, Bergen.  More information about the band can be found on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/helheimnorway

Below you can see the video of HELHEIM’s “Dualitet og Ulver”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Helheim MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/helheimnorway
Helheim Website: http://www.helheim.com
Helheim Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/helheimnorway
Band Contact: helheim@helheim.com
Promo & Additional Info: post@karismarecords.no