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.
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.
There’s nothing more we would love than for news about our artists and their music to reach you. That is what we are here for, to promote our artists music.
And this year we are putting more music out there then ever before, increasing our rooster and releases. .
In other words, there’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in our label these days, and we will of course update you on all our stuff as they happen, on all our social media.
Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up to some great news in your inbox too? We promise not to spam you mail. In fact, we’re going to start sending our newsletter on fridays only, to kick off your weekend with great news. And as usual, news are always first in our newsletter, then second on our social media.
So if interested, then all you have to do is to subscribe below. You can always unsubscribe if you don’t like it. Unsubscribe-link is always included in the newsletter.
We are co-organizer for the dark Norwegian metalfestival Northern Deception, which is taking place 18th and 19th of march, next year. The festival is taking place in Kristiansand (Norway), at the Theatre.
Tickets are available here:
