Seattle pagan black/doom metal/neofolk collective Isenordal presents new full-length album »Requiem For Eirênê«, out today via Prophecy Productions

Seattle, Washington based pagan black/doom metal/neofolk collective Isenordal presents their third full-length album, »Requiem For Eirênê«, which was just released today, March 8th, 2024 via Prophecy Productions.

Tracklist:
01. A Moment Approaches Eternity
02. Await Me, Ultima Thule
03. Requiem For Eirênê
04. Epiphanies Of Abhorrence And Futility
05. Saturnine Apotheosis

Bonus tracks (artbook only):
01. Hymn Of Immortal Grace
02. Orpheus’s Lament
03. Requiem For The Dying God
04. Hymn Of Immortal Grace (Dungeon Mix)

Courtesy of Prophecy Productions:

Isenordal are different. Not fitting easily into the given stylistic drawers can often turn out to be both a blessing and a curse for a metal band. The six-piece from Seattle, WA in the United States is particularly hard to pin down. If push comes to shove, they could be described as a funeral doom act, although this hardly does their wide musical range justice. There are also notable influences of black metal, especially the harsh vocals but also the occasional vicious outbreaks of blizzard-riffs.

Then again, the metal elements are diligently balanced by beautiful acoustic passages of American neofolk. On their third full-length, »Requiem For Eirênê«, Isenordal have driven the interplay and cohesion of their musical core elements to a new level. The epic, meandering, and multi-faceted songs on this album each tell a dramatic story. Lead by various types of vocals, both female and male, that flow organically into each other, a wide array of instruments paints highly dynamic and lush sonic pictures.

Each song of »Requiem For Eirênê« reveals a chapter of an overarching conceptual story that spans the whole of the album. The tale was written by drummer Brian Spenser and reflects personal experience that has been transformed into a profound mythological world, which is musically illustrated by Isenordal. In its course, the band is drawing from ancient myth, occultism, astrology, and the tarot among other symbolic systems to express a spiritual journey involving love, loss, grief in all its stages, hope, disappointment, exploitation, spiritual revelation, surrender, and finally, apotheosis.

With »Requiem For Eirênê«, Isenordal dare to face the curse that creating different and unique music can bring, and they conjure the blessing that an excitingly new and skilfully achieved magical sound may award. May the American funeral doom innovators reap the fruits of what they have so bravely sown!

Pre-order »Requiem For Eirênê« HERE!

Line-up:
Kerry Hall – Guitar, Vocals
Jeff King – Bass, Cello
Brian Hazard Spenser – Drums, Percussion, Vocals
G. G. – Guitar
Eva Vonne – Viola, Vocals
Nate Rogers – Piano, Organ, Keyboards

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