Posts Tagged 'Bjornar Erevik Nilsen'
KEVIN STORM RELEASES AUSTRALLIANCE CHARITY SINGLE & VIDEO WITH ASSISTANCE FROM MULTIPLE MUSICIANS & THE METAL COMMUNITY
Posted: January 23, 2020 in DARK ESSENCE RECORDS, OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASES, Uncategorized, VULTURE INDUSTRIES
Tags: Australia, Australliance, Bjornar Erevik Nilsen, Costin Chioreanu, Dark Essence Records, Kevin Storm, Vulture Industries, Wires Wildlife Rescue
Moved by the devastating Australian wildfires, Heavy Metal musician KEVIN STORM, has recruited a plethora of fellow musicians, including VULTURE INDUSTRIES frontman Bjornar Erevik Nilsen and Dark Essence Records artist and video producer COSTIN CHIOREANU, to form AUSTRALLIANCE to take part in a single released to raise money for the Wires Wildlife Rescue (https://www.wires.org.au) which will receive any and all proceeds from the single.
You can buy, or donate as much as you want for the single, titled "Can't shut it off", directly from Kevin on Bandcamp at www.kevinstorm.bandcamp.com
As well as from all the usual streaming and downloading services via https://darkessencerecords.fanlink.to/Australliance
Romanian musician, artist and video producer COSTIN CHIOREANU, has also created a video for "Can't shut it off" which can be seen at https://youtu.be/wXnuXmsY-lI
According to Kevin the song "starts as the loudest scream of despair yet ends with a sigh of hope," and he explains how not just fellow musicians, but also major companies involved in the metal scene, including Norway's Dark Essence Records, and the metal community in general, rallied to his call to produce produce "Can't shut it off":
My name is Kevin Storm, I am a professional heavy metal musician that tours the globe and last Sunday the news of Australia's wildfires had me in tears. I couldn't sleep and wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes, and the day after started recording a charity song during a 10-hour live stream. After this I started inviting fellow musicians to contribute.
The whole thing grew out of hand as the community started to gather around it and in one week we had 16 musicians, some VERY well known in the heavy metal community, who all contributed to a heartbreaking song that is mixed in one of the best recording studios, backed by major companies And so much more is happening in the campaign.
The song ends in a 24 piece-choir and musicians taking part include:
Kevin Storm – Lyrics and Songwriting, Guitars, Keys
Shawter (Dagoba) – vocals
Bjornar Erevik Nilsen (Vulture Industries) – vocals
Daniël de Jongh (Textures) – vocals
Cammie Gilbert (Oceans Of Slumber) – vocals
Louis Soenen (Fields of Troy) – additional vocals
Nils Courbaron (Sirenia) – guitar lead
Chris Gedge (Mocha Metal) – additional guitar
Eligio Tapia (Crepuscle) – additional guitar
Christina Earlymorn – Dermon (Finsterort) – additional guitar
Veli-Matti Kananen (Kalmah) – keyboards, bass
Frank Schilperoort (Dictated,..) – drums
Carmen Agtsteribbe – additional vocals
Harri Koskela (Lost in Grey) – choir
Anne Lill (Lost in Grey) – choir
Emily Leone (Lost in Grey) – choir
Drums for "Can't shut it off" were edited by Daniel Medley at Ten South Sounds and was mixed by Bjornar Erevik Nilsen and Mastered by Herbrand Larsen at their Conclave and Earshot Studios in Bergen, Norway.
KEVIN STORM
Kevin Storm Facebook: www.facebook.com/kevin.storm
Kevin Storm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevin_storm_guitar/
Dark Essence Records YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DarkEssenceRecords
Dark Essence Records Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkessencerecords/
Dark Essence Records Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarkEssenceRec
Dark Essence Records Webshop: https://www.darkessencerecords.no
Dark Essence Records North American Webshop: http://darkessence.aisamerch.com/
Dark Essence Records Australian Webshop: https://www.heavymetalmerchant.com/bands/d/dark-essence-records/
Costin Chioreanu Website: https://twilight13media.com/
Costin Chioreanu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/costinchioreanu/
Costin Chioreanu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/twilight13media
Costin Chioreanu Twitter: https://twitter.com/twilight13media
Vulture Industries Website: http://www.vulture-industries.net
Vulture Industries on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vultureindustries
Vulture Industries on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VultureIndustr1
Vulture Industries on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/vulture-industries
Vulture Industries WebShop: http://vultureindustries.bigcartel.com/
Management & Booking: Propulsion Music: http://www.propulsionmusic.no/
Booking: bjornar@propulsionmusic.no
DEVAR RELEASE SECOND SINGLE AHEAD OF UPCOMING FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
Posted: August 25, 2017 in DEVAR, OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASES, Uncategorized
Tags: Avant-Garde, Bergen, Bjornar Erevik Nilsen, DEVAR, Metal, Norway
With their long-awaited sophomore full-length album "Mausoleum" due for release on the Gymnocal Industries label on the 29th September, Norwegian Metallers DEVAR have given fans a second taste of what to expect with the release of the title track in digital format.
DEVAR's unconventional approach to music draws its influences not only from the Extreme and Black Metal genres, but also from Avant-garde Metal and 70's Prog. Matched with a lyrical concept that takes listeners on a journey down the paths of fear, insanity, darkness and death in order to explore the decline of man, the resultant sound is one that is both original and unique.
Both the single "Masoleum", and the entire album, were recorded by Bjørnar E. Nilsen (VULTURE INDUSTRIES, TAAKE, HELHEIM) at the Conclave & Earshot Studios in Bergen, along with Devar at the Alternate End Studios, and Ottoegil at Internasjonalt Farvann. "Masoleum" is mixed and mastered by Herbrand Larsen (ENSLAVED) at the Conclave & Earshot Studios.
Cover art for the single "Masoleum" is by Tom Korsvold, photography is by Ronny A. Sangolt. It is available in digital format from https://devar.bandcamp.com/track/mausoleum-single as well as from the following:
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/-/id1268987900
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZOtDx6lyMlfzqFu5lvKTL
Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/77128601
The band was originally formed as a solo project by frontman Devar in 2002, who, upon realising what was needed if he wanted to bring his vision to fruition, put together a full lineup that today consists of Devar on vocals, Obdsaija on Drums and Percussion, Aadland on Guitars and Ottoegil on Bass and Keys.
Since the release of the band's 2009 full-length debut "Alternate Endings", "DEVAR" has matured into a more reflective band, and the resultant sophomore album reveals songs that are much more focused and with a more progressive touch. As with the single, artwork for "Mausoelum" is by Tom Korsvold and photography by Ronny A. Sangolt. Tracklisiting is as follows:
1. Mausoleum
2. House of Bones
3. Dead End Moon
4. Shadow Straggler
5. Cold black Rain
6. Narcissa Oriane
8. Dead Wounds
"Mausoleum" is now available to pre-order in Digipak CD, Gatefold DLP and Digital formats from www.gymnocal.com
"House of Bones", the first single taken from "Mausoelum" can be heard below and at http://devar.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-bones
More information about DEVAR can be found on the band's website at http://www.devarband.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/devarband/
Devar Website: http://www.devarband.com
Devar Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/devarband/
Devar Bandcamp: http://devar.bandcamp.com/
Devar Twitter: http://twitter.com/devarband
Devar Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/devarband/
Band Contact: devarband@gmail.com
Gymnocal Industries website: http://www.gymnocal.com
Gymnocal Industries facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Gymnocal
Gymnocal Industries Bandcamp: http://gymnocal.bandcamp.com/
Gymnocal Industries Twitter: http://twitter.com/Gymnocal
Gymnocal Industries Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gymnocal_industries/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2hHITzAr8OQCKoDBoZFrrH
Info and Promos: gymnocalindustries@gmail.com
BLACK HOLE GENERATOR ALBUM DETAILS AND ARTWORK REVEALED
Posted: October 6, 2016 in BLACK HOLE GENERATOR, DARK ESSENCE RECORDS, OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASES
Tags: Bergen, Bjornar Erevik Nilsen, BLACK HOLE GENERATOR, Black Metal, Dark Essence Records, Helheim, Norway, Taake, Vulture Industries
Fans of BLACK HOLE GENERATOR have had a long wait since the release of the band's "Black Karma" MCD – ten years in fact! But now the wait is over, with the band's much anticipated debut full-length album "A Requiem for Terra" set to hit the streets on Dark Essence Records on the 18th November in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
BLACK HOLE GENERATOR is the project of VULTURE INDUSTRIES front man Bjørnar E. Nilsen, and, given his work schedule, it is hardly surprising that a new album has been so long in the making. Not only has Nilsen been kept busy with the ever-increasingly successful VULTURE INDUSTRIES, he is also one of Norway's most noted producers, working with bands such as TAAKE and HELHEIM, as well as owning Bergen's Conclave and Earshot Studios with ENSLAVED's Herbrand Larsen and Arve Isdal. Not to mention the fact that he is one of the people behind the burgeoning success of the Dark Essence Records and Karisma Records labels.
So what exactly can we expect from "A Requiem for Terra"? Aside from Nilsens' distinctive and highly charged vocals, "Requiem for Terra" contains enough stand-out riffing to satisfy the souls of any guitar aficionados, with Arve Isdal (ENSLAVED, AUDREY HORNE) on guitars, Gjermund Fredheim (TAAKE, ORKAN) performing lead guitars on three of the tracks, and additional guitars by Dag Terje Andersen.
The seven-track album shifts between the bleak aural landscapes that depict a desolate world, and the frantic torrent of the abyss. From the doom laden opening title track, to the mesmerizing riffing of "Moloch", via the catchy "Beneath a Chemical Sky" to the fierce "Emerging Pantheon", "A Requiem for Terra" offers the listener a wide dynamic range.
With artwork by the Romanian artist and designer Costin Chioreanu, and the video single "Moloch", tracklisting on "A Requiem for Terra" is as follows:
A Requiem for Terra
Beneath a Chemical Sky
Emerging Pantheon
Earth Eater
Spiritual Blight
More information about BLACK HOLE GENERATOR can be found at https://www.facebook.com/blackholegeneratorofficial/
The official video for the title track from BLACK HOLE GENERATOR's "Black Karma" MCD can be seen below and at https://youtu.be/FonKkiDOFN4
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackholegeneratorofficial/
BandCamp: https://blackholegenerator.bandcamp.com
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/black-hole-generator
Contact: bjornar@propulsionmusic.no