TSJUDERstreams full album “Helvegr”
Black Metal legends TSJUDER is now releasing their newest vigorous album “Helvegr” in advance of the release date! Their gem will be released onto this desolate planet via Season of Mist on the June 23, 2023, but can already be listened to via the Black Metal Production HERE.
TSJUDER comments: “Helvegr is raw Norwegian Black Metal. No synthesizers, no wimpy vocals, NO FUCKING COMPROMISES!”
But there’s more!
The bonus album “Scandinavian Black Metal Attack” (an special ode to BATHORY) will also be available on all digital platforms HERE and can be viewed on the official Season of Mist Youtube today at 5PM CESTHERE.
TSJUDER comments to this special release:
“It’s so great to be back to bring you five new evil recordings with Tsjuder, from some of the gruesome material Quorthon, Jonas, and I played when we started Bathory in our dark cold cellar rehearsal room back in 1983.”
Shop for “Helvegr” are available HERE, while the album can be streamed HERE. (Some vinyl’s are already sold out)
The cover artwork for “Helvegr” can be viewed together with the track-list and further album details below.
Track-list:
1. Iron Beast (3:37) [WATCH HERE]
2. Prestehammeren (4:01) [WATCH HERE]
3. Surtr (6:59)
4. Gamle-Erik (3:46)
5. Chaos Fiend (4:02)
6. Gods of Black Blood (5:19) [WATCH HERE]
7. Helvegr (7:36)
8. Faenskap og Død (3:08)
9. Hvit Død (2:52)
Photo by Chantik Photography
Style: Norwegian Black Metal
FFO: 1349, Nattefrost, Gorgoroth, Taake, Bathory
Since their inception in 1993, Oslo’s TSJUDER have been responsible for some of the most hate-filled ferocity perpetrated under the banner of TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL.
The band’s unholy fire was initially lit when founding members NAG (vocals/bass), BERSERK (guitar) and DRAUGLUIN (guitar) grew weary of playing death metal and sought out engorged levels of extremity to sate their increasingly profane ambitions. The time was ripe to inaugurate a ceaseless campaign committed to an uncompromising strain of brutally raw black metal, influenced by the primal thrash blasts of Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Sarcófago and early Sepultura; black metal first wave trailblazers such as Bathory and Hellhammer; and, most vitally, Mayhem’s seminal Deathcrush, and Darkthrone’s game-changer, A Blaze in the Northern Sky.
Assuming the TSJUDER name, a moniker plundered from a mythical, murderous Northern tribe, various embryonic line-ups gathered around the all-conquering core of Nag and Draugluin, laying the fearsome foundations for what was to follow with two demos – Ved Ferdens Ende and Possessed – recorded between 1995-96. But it was with 1997’s EP, Throne of the Goat, that the black metal underground really began to sit up and take notice, the release establishing TSJUDER’s reputation as a blasphemous bulldozer hellbent on crushing the insipid and nostalgic in relentless blizzards of sub-zero riffage, punitive blast beats and blood-curdling screams.
Recordings for an inaugural full-length in 1999 were lost to a computer virus, but from the scavenged remnants of these sessions would emerge the Atum Nocturnem demo, an obnoxious foretaste of the group’s debut album, Kill For Satan, an international breakthrough slathered in slime-encrusted sacrilege. That damnable release saw the aptly-named ANTI-CHRISTIAN open his TSJUDER account, the drummer blasting a succession of gateways though the underworld, pulverising a punitive march to the band’s malevolent maelstroms.
Demonic Possession (2002) and Desert Northern Hell (2004) sustained the band’s focus on death, devils and destruction, while ratcheting up the production levels on a barbaric brace of flesh-strippers conjuring a landscape of frost-bitten wastes and foul abyssal realms. With the music press busy dishing out plaudits, the band’s burgeoning confederacy of fanatics were becoming desperate for some TSJUDER live action. Heeding the clarion, the band embarked on a full European tour with fellow countrymen Carpathian Forest. They also recorded a pair of gloriously powerful live performances in 2005, in Norway, which would subsequently be documented on the group’s Norwegian Apocalypse DVD.
TSJUDER would take a deserved hiatus in 2006, with members finding other musical outlets for their creativity; Nag launching heretical black metal outfit KRYPT; Draugluin and Anti-Christian doing time with the thrashier TYRANN.
But it wouldn’t be long before the irresistible call of TSJUDER would exert itself once more. The band reconvened, reenergised and eager to make up for lost time, returning to live performances in 2010 before finally unleashing the mighty Legion Helvete (2011), a typically uncompromising comeback interspersed with pronounced Motörhead influences on punkish hyper-blasters such as ‘Slakt’.
It would be another four years before TSJUDER issued the merciless Antiliv (2015), a snarling lycanthropic howl of a record, heavy-loaded with vindictive black’n’roll swagger and lashings of buzzsaw guitar.
TSJUDER quickly set about creating the follow-up to Antiliv, but musical differences and protracted disputes led to a parting of the ways, with Anti-Christian bowing out after an impressive 20-year tenure with the group. Undaunted, Nag and Draughluin enlisted doyen tub-thumper JON RICE to provide the requisite drum artillery and continued to work on new recordings – fine-tuning guitar tones and sharpening mixes.
Then COVID-19 struck, the pandemic further stymieing the album’s release as the world tumbled from its fragile axis. But humanity is now benignly settling into its most chronic phase of perpetual abnormality and TSJUDER are steeled again to hoist their inverted cross above the barricades of conciliation. Their latest opus, Helvegr, is a devastatingly savage offering, one which fully adheres to the band’s eternal credo of “NO FUCKING COMPROMISE”.
Recording Line-up:
Nag – Bass & Vocals
Draugluin – Guitars & Vocals
Jon Rice – Drums
Guest musicians:
Guitar solo on ‘Gamle Erik’ by Pål Emanuelsen
Guest vocals on ‘Gods of Black Blood’ by Seidemann (1349)
After the departure of Anti-Christian, Jon Rice and Eivin Brye has shared the drum duties on TSJUDER ‘s live performances.
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/tsjuderofficial
https://www.instagram.com/officialtsjuder
Mixing + Mastering: North Waves Studios by Pål Emanuelsen
Artwork: Jonas Svensson and Laura Nardelli
TSJUDER live
27 May 2023Thronefest (BE) 2023
16-19 Aug 2023 Midgardsblot (NO) 2023
Biography: Spencer Grady
Photos: Chantik Photography – www.chantik.nl
Management + booking: Photograve Management – Håkon Grave www.photograve.net
Shop:https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/Tsjuder-HEL
Pre-save: https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/tsjuder-helvegr
Formats:
Digital
CD Digipak
Cassette
CD Clamshell box (+ Bathory cover album)
Vinyl in various colours (WHITE IS SOLD OUT)
LTD Box Vinyl (+Bathory cover Vinyl)
