International heavyweights Norna unleash brutal new single »Shadow Works«; self-titled sophomore album out August 30th via Pelagic Records!

International atmospheric sludge metal trio Norna share the third single »Shadow Works« taken from their self-titled sophomore album, set to release on August 30th, 2024 via Pelagic Records.

Tracklist:
01. Samsara
02. For Fear Of Coming
03. Ghost
04. Shine By Its Own Light
05. Shadow Works
06. The Sleep

Courtesy of Pelagic Records:

Apocalyptic international power-trio Norna have shared new single »Shadow Works«, taken from their self-titled second album, set for release on 30th August, 2024.

Hailing in parts from the icy Swedish northlands and the glacial expanse of the Swiss Alps, named after the three Norse goddesses of fate who wove the very tapestry of fate underneath the mythical World Tree, Norna aren’t messing around. Their debut album, 2021’s »Star Is Way Way Is Eye« was saturated filth; uncompromising, unrelenting ugliness. However, their eponymous sophomore offering digs its claws deeper into the dirt. Sharpened, hungry and desperate, born of the moment and yet years in the making; »Norna« liberates an old rage that has been suppressed for far too long.

Photo by Hughes de Castillo

Despite only forming in 2020, the three pillars of Norna bring decades of experience with them. Consisting of Swedish post-hardcore pioneer Tomas Liljedahl (Breach, The Old Wind) and Swiss stalwarts Christophe Macquat and Marc Theurillat (both of instrumental juggernaut Ølten), Norna came together as a perfect storm of abrasive influences, harnessed by friend and producer Magnus Lindberg (Cult Of Luna), to create something new, limitless and horrifyingly heavy.

Rather than binding themselves from the outset to any structure or semblance of a song, Norna instead carve their mammoth riffs from a roiling mass of distortion and chaos suspended in the clouds; each member remotely adds oppressive layer upon layer over time before the band gather together in the studio to harness only the most vicious combinations.

Latest single »Shadow Works« is potent proof of this caustic process; alive with a seething, deep-seated fury as angular, syncopated riffs spiral deliriously above pounding, pummelling drums whilst Liljedahl’s harrowing vocal delivery desperately searches for catharsis amidst the carnage.

»Norna« is out 30th August, 2024.

»Shadow Works« is out today.

Norna on »Shadow Works«: “»Shadow Works« will submerge you to the deepest part of decadent darkness. We will all pass through there at some point during our illusionary path through the suffering world.”

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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well