Black Medium Current

Black Medium Current' is the sixth studio album by longstanding Norwegian avant-garde pioneers D?dheimsgard.

From their influential & successful beginnings as a raw & grim black metal outfit established during the ongoing swelling of the "second wave" in the early-mid 90's, D?dheimsgard has subsequently evolved into a truly eclectic behemoth with each landmark release; a band now undoubtedly adorned with the mastery of mood & texture through intricate, dark metallic wonderment & unnerving eloquence.

'Black Medium Current' continues on the path set by 2015's monumental & universally lauded 'A Umbra Omega' album; itself a deeply poignant & potent release of vast maturity & 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 & ultimately unmade through a process of belief & endless turmoil & contradiction & how it sews itself into our reality. 'Black Medium Current' also represents a very personal album for Vicotnik, riding the torrents of tribulation & loss, lusciously entwined within creation. Haunting, cathartic & exquisite moments of reflection, dissected & presented as a meticulously woven canvas of masterful & stirring music taking in a whole host of atmospheres & soundscapes encompassing the divine & the bizarre, from the depths of black metal, to sombre more classically centred piano pieces.

'Black Medium Current' was recorded & mixed at Top-Room Studios by Matias Aaversen & produced by Vicotnik himself, with cover art courtesy of Lukasz Jaszak.