Norwegian heavy/thrash/doom trio Coffin Storm drops new music video for »Open The Gallows«; debut album »Arcana Rising« out now on Peaceville Records!
Norwegian heavy/thrash/doom metal trio Coffin Storm (feat. members of Darkthrone, Aura Noir, Infernö & more) premiere new music video for the song »Open The Gallows« from their debut album, »Arcana Rising«, out on March 29th, 2024 via Peaceville Records.
Tracklist:
01. Over Frozen Moors
02. Arcana Rising
03. Open The Gallows
04. Eighty-Five And Seven Miles
05. Ceaseless Abandon
06. Clockwork Cult
Courtesy of Peaceville Records:
Norwegian heavy metal trio Coffin Storm have unveiled their blistering track »Open The Gallows«. The 10-minute epic, taken from their 2024 debut album »Arcana Rising«, comes alongside a brilliant new video by Matthew Vickerstaff steeped in medieval and supernatural brutality.
Featuring Kolbotn veterans Apollyon (Aura Noir, Lamented Souls) and Bestial Tormentor (Infernö, Lamented Souls), the lineup is completed by Fenriz of Darkthrone on vocals.
Speaking on the new video and his inspiration behind the track, Apollyon said:
“»Open The Gallows« is the longest track I have ever made. Initially we were thinking instrumental old Metallica style with loads of guitar melodies and shit. Apart from the opening/ending though, there’s not much Metallica in there. The main riff is Kreator-inspired if anything. Fortunately, we ended up having Fenriz sing on it after all because the vocal lines are amazing.
This being an all Kolbotn project we invited Arild from Obliteration / Abhorration / Necromantheon / Black Viper to do a legendary long-ass guitar lead as well.”
»Arcana Rising« contains six sprawling metallic epics covering the 45 minute running time, and was recorded at a variety of studios in the band’s native Norway, with work originally commencing back to 2021. With production overseen by Apollyon himself, »Arcana Rising« truly channels & encapsulates the spirit of the 80s, with inspiration from such masters of metal as Candlemass, Pentagram, Metallica & early Kreator, with musical nods to early Paradise Lost & Cathedral from the more extreme side of the doom spectrum, as well as including traces of the DNA from Apollyon & Bestial Tormentor’s own prior work together with their cult doom act Lamented Souls, to create a sensational and majestic opus.
Mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door (Darkthrone), the cover art appears courtesy of Polish artist Maciej Kamuda.
»Arcana Rising« is available on CD, limited orange vinyl, and black vinyl with orders available HERE!
Fenriz explains the origins of the band:
“Kolbotn is a hilly foresty place directly south of Oslo, Norway. When Ole Jørgen and Olav and me grew up there in the 80s we had easy access to all the metal in the massive amounts of record stores in Oslo. Olav and Ole Jørgen started playing doom metal together in the 90s (Lamented Souls) but in 2020 they teamed up again and making riffs in the slow thrash/doom/classic heavy metal style. When the songs started to take form, Ole Jørgen took his place on the drum throne and soon started to record them. Wanting it to be a 100% Kolbotn project, they asked if I wanted to lay down vocals for it and after a couple of sessions in 2021 and 2022 Coffin Storm was born.”
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well