Jordfäst – Blodsdåd och hor
Jordfäst – Blodsdåd och hor
Black Lion Records
Release Date: 25/07/2025
Review by Metalphysicist
9/10
Jordfäst is a Småland,/Sweden based band that have just released their new album, “Blodsdåd och hor” – an awesome mix of melancholic post-Black Metal vibe guided by fingered guitar riffs and inspired drums sections. There is also concession to grandeur landscapes to open space to Epic and Melodic Heavy Metal passages, establishing “Blodsdåd och hor” overall sonority somewhere between sombre Nord Forests Black Metal ambience and folk pagan insertions completing the music section references.
The fact is that “Blodsdåd och hor” is a hell of an interesting musical voyage through 8 parts of two conceptual songs – ‘Ett altare av skärvor’ and ‘Dit gudarna trälar är’ – which, of course, makes sense to be heard as a whole (the album has only 36 running time). Actually, “Blodsdåd och hor” boasts on an intricated concept behind the musical and lyrical proposal, as well explain on the EPK:
“The first half, “Ett altare av skärvor” (An altar of shards), combines fragments from Völuspá with imagery of violent manipulation and mental torture to explore the everlasting desire in humans to make sense of their existence. The later half, “Dit gudarna trälar är” (Where the gods are thralls), journeys through centuries of Swedish history, shaped by steel and iron industry and defined by relentless warfare.”
That is exactly what you get on “Blodsdåd och hor”: Epic Black Metal as its best. The similar band that came on to my mind was Arkhona and, to establish common ground between the afford-mentioned bands, they’re both guided by ferocious and intimidating vocal lines. Arkhona has a new era freaking Witch as a singer – Maria “Masha Scream” Arkhipova – at the same time that Jordfäsp counts with brutal singing intense interpretation by Olof, that guide us all the way through the raw and punishing songs, played in sequence, conjuring the dark and bloody Earth bellow our feet step by step.
It would be senseless to highlight one or two songs to write my impressions about, so I’d rather tell you that the compositions are
amalgamated by different sorts of sonority on an Epic Metal vibe, transcending from atmospheric passages, melancholic Post-Black Metal lines and also inspiring guitar solos and Nord Folk chants’ melody.
I totally recommend the full audition of “Blodsdåd och hor”, if you are into that kind of sonority aligned with obscure lyrical concept that, even though it is sung on an eccentric foreign language (at least,for the most of us), yet, you can understand the encrypted message behind it – straight from the Olympus of the Norse gods.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Ett altare av skärvor, pt. 1
02. Ett altare av skärvor, pt. 2
03. Ett altare av skärvor, pt. 3
04. Ett altare av skärvor, pt. 4
05. Dit gudarna trälar är, pt. 1
06. Dit gudarna trälar är, pt. 2
07. Dit gudarna trälar är, pt. 3
08. Dit gudarna trälar är, pt. 4
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