Metal-Rules.com just released a great new review of Vandari.
You can reade the review here: https://www.metal-rules.com/2023/01/01/cortege-vandari/
Also feel free to check out the album on your favourite streaming-service.
We are now 2 years in the making of a long-held dream of mine come true. Whispering Voice Records AS has become a company that is viable on it’s own, and we will start focusing on the next step of the dream, which is Whispering Voice Studios, and getting that up and running.
The label started 2022 by joining the Ifpi Norway family, which houses 23 members. Internationally Ifpi has 8000 members divided on 70 countries. This gave us some great tools to work with and gave us an even better overview of the result from our campaigns. At the end of the year we also saw the start of Music Nest Norway, which we joined as soon as applications were opened,
The first band out this year was the band Snøstorm. The duo residing in Norway and Bulgaria made a killer album called ‘Tales of the end’.
Tales of the end
Tales od the End was released 29th of april, and consisting of 7 tracks with lyrics in either Norwegian or English, the album was released both digitally and physically as a digipak.
The track ‘Slava Ukraine’ featured several languages, and the lyrics was written in English, Norwegian and Ukrainian, in honor of the Ukrainian people fighting against their oppressors
Mellom bakkar og berg
Snøstorm also released a digital singel, a cover of the anthem ‘Mellom bakkar og berg’ from the Norwegian poem ‘Nordmannen’ (the Norwegian in English). A lyric-video was released on the labels YouTube, which was filmed and produced by Whispering Voice Studios.
Fjord
2022 was also the year we signed the Norwegian newcomers ‘Nidhög’, who released their debut-ep ‘Fjord’. These talented guys wanted to put some of the old second wave Norwegian black metal back into play, and with the ep being produced by none other than Tom Kvålsvoll from Kvalsonic lab, the guys did just that. The band is working on their second release, and a lyric-video is also in the works
Vandari
The last release of 2022 was ‘Vandari’ by the polish band Cortege. The 12-track death-metal album was released late November, both digitally and physically. Vandari is the bands third full-length album
The band also recently released a musicvideo, featuring the track ‘Filth‘ from the Vandari-album.
Least, but not last, 2022 was also the year we finally got ‘Into the realm of the Occult’ by Arvas back on to the streaming-services. After many years of missing, it is now finally back and available. The album was originally released in 2013, and after striking a deal at the end of 2021, the label finally got ownership of the album, and made sure it got released online.
We’ve also supported the extreme version of the Norwegian metal-festival Northern Deception Metal Festival, which was held in September in Kristiansand. The festival featured band as Mork, Gehenna, Nordjevel and Crest of Darkness, and many other great bands.
We allready have a new signing in place, and there are also more albums to come, from new artists and artists that are allready in our rooster.
Arvas recorded a singel in 2022 that we hopefully will see the result of in 2023, but we will start of the new year with the release of a new artist.
In 2022 we saw what was the beginning of a brand new studio; Whispering Voice Studios. We will have a bigger focus on production in 2023, making the studio more live and buzzing.
We will also see the a brand new wepshop coming up in the early 2023, with loads of merch from all our artists, and also some cool metal-stuff in general.
We will continue to support Northern Deception Metal Festival, and hopefully we will see even more people in front of the stage.
So for now, we wish you all a happy new year, and hope you also follow us in 2023
The Mexican-based webzine Holy Noise just released an interview done with the guys from Nidhög, on their YouTube-channel.
The band talks about their debut-release, and at the same time also talks about what the future might hold for them. The debut-ep, which came out september 17th, has met a lot of good critisism.
Merch connected to the debut-ep ‘Fjord’ has been launch on the labels webstore, and is available. Feel free to check it out.
Vandari, which is Cortege‘s seventh release, and third full-length album, has finally gone live, and is now available on all streaming-services all over the world. You can find direct links to the major once here.
Vandari is a 12-track album, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered at Maq Records Studio, by Jarek Toifl.
Cover artwork is done by Kamil Szuszkiewicz and album layout is done by Eweline Trojanowska
All music is done by Artur Ambrozy
All lyrics is done by Sebastian Bartek
There are also some cool Vandari-merch available, so please check out our online store. More merch, and also limited merch, will be added soon.
The band has just done shooting the musicvideo for the track ‘Filth’, and will be released in a short while.
Check out the new album on your prefered streaming-service.
Finally the date has arrived, and Nidhögs debut-ep is live. The ep delivers powerfull and melodic black metal. The quartett sets out to bring the second wave of Norwegian black metal back, and is on the path with this debut.
‘Fjord’ er også et prisverdig stykke arbeid til å være første gang Nidhög gir lyd fra seg, og byr på akkurat passe velprodusert, melodisk og kraftfull svartmetall.
Metallurgi.org (In Norwegian)
The ep is produced, mixed and mastered by none other than Tom Kvålsvoll at Kvalsonic Lab, who’s done mastering bands like 1349, Arcturus, Emperor, Borknagar and Darkthrone, to mention a few.
The band is allready working on what is to become their second release, and their first full length album. It’s not hard to see what goals the band sets for themselves
Let’s just say that the next one is more of melodic blackend death metal, should also say that the third disc should be back to atmospheric black metal. We want variety, but no matter what, everything is Nidhög.
Adrian
So lots of exhiting stuff to look out for from these guys in the future.
Anyways, the album is out on all streaming-services and also available in our store.
Nidhög is presenting the cover for their debut-ep ‘Fjord’. The artcover is taken from the National museum, and is a picture of the Norwegian Geiranger Fjord, taken in 1888 By William Dobson Valentine.
The release-date for ‘Fjord is set to 17th of September, and the ep will be available on all streaming-services. Presales of the ep will be announced in a short while.
Presales have started on both bandcamp and our own webshop. Limited merch will also be up and running soon.
We’ve also put together a promo-video for you to check out.
The date is now set for the release of ‘Fjord’, the debut-ep from Nidhög. The Norwegian black-metalband Nidhög signed with Whispering Voice Records not too long ago, and is now ready for their release to hit the shelves. ‘Fjord’ will be released on September 17th on all streaming-services.
‘Fjord’ is produced, mixed and mastered by none other than Tom Kvålsvoll at Kvalsonic Lab.
Nidhög online
We’re closing the office for 10 from 16th of july, and will be back 26th.
Perhaps not a big news to post about, but we WILL be back with bigger news when we’re back from this years summer vacation.
We have several releases coming up in the coming fall, and also a big festival that we’re sponsoring.
So we’ll take some time to recharge and hope you all have a great summer. Stay hydrated, use sunscreen and have a good time.
Have a great summer.
It’s always exciting to sign a new artist or band to our label. Kind of like a christmas eve, for a headbanger. And once again we are excited to announce that we have signed a new band, this time from the westcoast of Norway
Nidhög is a quartet consisting 4 young guys from Ålesund, a small town not particularly known for black or extreme metal. But that’s something these guys plans on changing. Despite their young age, these guys are very talented at what they do.
The band will release their debut-ep ‘Fjord’ early this fall. The ep is recorded and is now the hands of Tom at Kvalsonic Lab, and we can’t wait to release it.
The quartet signed with the label for the release of their debut-ep ‘Fjord’, but are allready working on material for their next release. What format that will be is yet to be determined.
What lies ahead for these guys, future will tell. We in Whispering Voice Records are excited to be the one to kickstart their career. The road to Ålesund is painted with black intentions.
The band draws inspiration from bands like Bathory, Burzum, Darkthtone, Death, Entombed and early Mayhem, but also from some underground-bands like Crypt Crawler and Taetre. So what this band has in store for their debut-album is really something to look forward too.
We will announce the release-date of ‘Fjord’ as soon as we have it. Until then we welcome Nidhög in to the Whispering Voice Records-family.
