Swedish death/doom/pagan metal act Runemagick presents new single and lyric video »After Chaos«
Swedish death/doom/pagan metal act Runemagick has released a lyric video for the second single »After Chaos« taken from their upcoming full-length album, »After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil«, due out on September 18th, 2026 via Hammerheart Records.
Tracklist:
01. After Chaos
02. Rune Magick Unbound
03. The Nocturnal Vigil
04. Urdr’s Cosmic Weave
05. Abyssal Continuum
06. Formless Dawn
07. The Vast That Knows No Shape
08. Into The Endless Continuance
Courtesy of Hammerheart Records:
Runemagick presents new single »After Chaos«, taken from the upcoming album »After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil«, out September 18th, 2026 on 2-CD, 2-LP and digital! Step away from the present. Enter the death/doom/pagan world of Runemagick! Listen in solitude to this journey and give it time to comprehend.
Pre-order »After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil« HERE.
»After Chaos« serves as the gateway into the album and continues the journey that began with »Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)«. The collapse has already happened. What remains is silence, presence and the first step into what lies beyond. Rather than looking back at what was lost, the song is about standing within the stillness that follows, where something ancient begins to move once more.
The album »After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil« is deeply rooted in runic symbolism, not as historical reconstruction but as living currents where the runes are approached as forces rather than mere symbols. That perspective naturally connects with my interest in animism and the experience of a living world filled with presences beyond human perception. »After Chaos« establishes that atmosphere from the very beginning and lays the conceptual foundation for everything that follows across the album’s eight songs and eight runes.
Like the album itself, this opening piece asks the listener to slow down and give it time. It is meant to be experienced rather than consumed, allowing the atmosphere, the lyrics and the gradual unfolding of the music to reveal themselves. Dísa Draugurinn’s melodic guest chants intertwine with my own vocals throughout the opening passage, helping to evoke the ritual atmosphere the song called for and inviting the listener across the threshold before the journey truly begins.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well