ARSTIDIR LIFSINS - Aldrlok 2CD DIGIPAK

Released May 31, 2024.

If you have not yet, the time to dwell into the genius of this band is now.

Árstíðir lífsins return with their much anticipated sixth album titled ‘Aldrlok’. Similar to previous albums, ‘Aldrlok’ features nine songs with a total playing time of 82 minutes, and contains both modern and classic Black Metal elements, as well as ambient folklore patterns supported by dark chants and classical instruments.

‘Aldrlok’ is sung entirely in Old Norse-Icelandic and contains lyrics with heavy use of Skaldic and Eddic poetry. The story is based on both societal and mythological topics, and plays out in some of the most turbulent times of change in Iceland: in the first half of the eleventh century, some forty years after the Christianisation in 999/1000. The album depicts a fictional story set in a period of Icelandic history of which generally little is known. Nevertheless, it was a turbulent time where older customs became obsolete and gave way to new traditions and, not least, new forms of belief. It is these particular circumstances which the title of the album alludes to, since ‘Aldrlok’ can be translated to ‘End of an Age’, or simply ‘Death’.