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Booker:
Jack Kijne
jack@targetgroup.dk

Creating “Sinister Thing” was one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences for Statement. Determined to craft an album that felt distinct from their previous four releases, the band revisited their entire discography – not for inspiration, but to reflect on their musical growth and evolution. This introspection helped them refine their direction, ensuring the album maintained the essence of Statement while incorporating fresh, powerful elements.

Musically, the album started in drop D tuning before transitioning to drop C, allowing for a darker and heavier sonic landscape. To fully immerse themselves in the creative process, Statement took a week-long retreat, dedicating themselves entirely to songwriting. This intensive period resulted in tracks like “The Hive”, “Raised in Hell”, “The Right Kind of Love”, and “My Last Goodbye”. The experience not only strengthened their artistic vision but also reinforced their bond as a band.

Lyrically, “Sinister Thing” is deeply personal, drawing inspiration from real-life experiences, opinions, and stories shared by friends and family. Each track underwent multiple rewrites to ensure the perfect balance of emotion, melody, and heaviness, leading to some difficult but necessary creative decisions.

To achieve the album’s bold new sound, Statement collaborated with renowned producer Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studio. Having previously worked with Madsen on their first two albums, the band knew he was the ideal choice to bring their heavier vision to life. His expertise helped shape “Sinister Thing” into a record that maintains Statement’s melodic foundations while embracing a more intense metal influence.

With “Sinister Thing”, the Danish collective pushes their musical boundaries, offering fans an album that is both familiar and refreshingly bold. The combination of powerful riffs, emotionally charged lyrics, and a darker, heavier atmosphere ensures that this release will captivate listeners and solidify Statement’s position in the hard rock and metal scene.

“Sinister Thing” will be released on LP (black vinyl limited to 200 copies and transparent red vinyl limited to 100 copies), CD and digital on 09.05.2025, via Mighty Music.

Jannick Brochdorf – vocals
Niels Alex Larsen – lead guitars, backing vocals
Lars Ulrik Le Fevre – guitars, backing vocals
Martin Poulsen – bass
Daniel Nielsen – drums

Booker:
Lars F. Larsen
lars@targetgroup.dk

“A Certain End Of Everything” consists of seven new tracks, including the already released first single “One Thousand Lights”. The music has the well-known Blazing Eternity atmosphere and fingerprint – a melancholic, epic and atmospheric doom/gothic metal mix with weeping guitars and harsh vocals. The album is bleak and melancholic, but with a certain beauty shining in the darkness – and with very personal lyrics dealing with death, depression, and personal tragedies. But with a gleam of hope in the end…

Will appeal to fans of early Katatonia, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost.

“A Certain End Of Everything” was written and arranged by original members Peter Mesnickow, Morten Kroll Lybecker and Lars Riis Korsholm – with additional synth arrangements by Flemming Kaspersen from electronic act Delayscape.

Blazing Eternity was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1993 and released two successful demo tapes in 1996 and 1998 leading to a deal with German Prophecy Productions. This resulted in the two albums ”Times And Unknown Waters” (2000) and ”A World To Drown In” (2003) as well as performances on big festivals such as Roskilde Festival and Wave Gotik Treffen.

After 2004, the band was not active anymore – until 2011/2012 when Blazing Eternity reformed for four concerts in Denmark and Germany.

After this, the band went into hiatus but secretly started working on new material in 2018. But with big challenges in the process. First the death of vocalist Peter Mesnickow’s long-time wife Lilja, and secondly the death of Blazing Eternity live-keyboardist Jens Hansen. Two events that have affected the new songs a lot – but at the end leading to the brand-new album “A Certain End Of Everything”. to be released in April 2024.

Recorded with Jacob Gundel (Withering Surface, Invocator etc). Mixed and mastered by Markus Stock Schwadorf (Empyrium, The Vision Bleak, Alcest, etc), who also produced the first two albums by Blazing Eternity.

“I absolutely loved to mix and master this album of my old friends Blazing Eternity. Not just because of reasons of nostalgia but because it is an absolutely beautiful and soulful album that lives in the past and the here and now“ Markus Stock Schwadorf.

“A Certain End Of Everything” is out now on LP (black vinyl), digipack CD and digital formats via Mighty Music.

Peter Mesnickow – vocals
Morten Kroll Lybecker – guitars, bass, synths
Lars Riis Korsholm – drums

Additional live members:
Kim Larsen – guitars
Magnus Ringling – bass
Anders Ro Nielsen – keyboards

Booker:
Jack Kijne
jack@targetgroup.dk

Booker:
Jack Kijne
jack@targetgroup.dk

Booker:
Thomas Haxen
haxen@targetgroup.dk

Efter udgivelsen af demoerne Svundne Tider (2006) og Tvende Ravne (2007), udgav SVARTSOT tre albums på Napalm Records: Ravnenes Saga (2007), Mulmets Viser (2010) og maledictus eris (2011). Albummet Vældet (2015) blev udgivet i samarbejde mellem bandets eget selskab, Of Wood And Iron Productions, og det ungarske selskab Nail Records. Efterfølgeren til Vældet med originaler værker blev skrinlagt af diverse årsager i 2018, og idéen om at udgive en samling folkeviser og middelalderlige sange, der havde inspireret bandet gennem årene, blev til. Albummet, der har fået titlen Kumbl, som er olddansk for ’mindesmærke’, skulle oprindeligt have være en del af SVARTSOTs 15-års jubilæum i 2020. Af forskellige årsager, kunne pladen dog først indspilles under pandemien, og Kumbl udkom i 2022 på det danske selskab Mighty Music. I 2023 er SVARTSOT i gang med at arbejde på materiale til et sjette studiealbum.

SVARTSOT er nu et etableret band på folkmetal-scenen såvel i Danmark som i udlandet og har spillet koncerter på festivaler og turnéer med flertallet af de allerstørste navne inden for folkmetal-genren og i store dele af Europa, mm. Bandet har opnået et ry som live-band med fansene i fokus, hvor koncerterne præges af den unikke oplevelse og fest til tonerne af det på én gang brutale, men melodiske folkmetal.

Booker:
Lars F. Lrsen
lars@targetgroup.dk

Nicklas har et bugnende CV hvor han bl.a. har været opvarmning for mastodonterne Metallica i Royal Arena, Rammstein i Horsens Fængsel, samt flere optrædener på nogle af Europas største metal festivaler, såsom Copenhell.

”Freedom” er Nicklas Sonnes bud på en melodi grandprix basker, der for første gang, i dansk regi, kobler den tunge guitarlyd med melodi grand prix’ets grandiositet og store omkvæd. En sang hvor Nicklas har komponeret, skrevet, indspillet, produceret og indsunget det hele fra bunden. Sangen kommer med store armbevægelser og skiller sig gevaldigt ud fra feltet med sit metalliske udtryk, og fræsende guitar solo. Efter flere års tilløb, udfolder multiinstrumentalisten, produceren og kæmpe lyd-nørden sig til dansk melodi grandprix, på sine egne præmisser. 

Nicklas Sonne er en af dansk metals største musikalske blæksprutter, og den karismatiske frontmand har allerede en solid following i Danmark og i udlandet. Nu går han for første gang alene i front for sit soloprojekt, han har haft et brændende ønske om at udleve i flere år.

Booker:
Thomas Haxen
haxen@targetgroup.dk

Booker:
Lars F. Larsen
lars@targetgroup.dk

Bandet kombinerer på smukkeste vis thrash, power og prog metal, så man får en totaloplevelse af flere genrer, samlet under en paraply og top-anmeldelserne for deres album vælter ind, i øjeblikket.

Booker:
Thomas Haxen
haxen@targetgroup.dk