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Recorded and mixed by Ihsahn at Symphonique Studios in Notodden, Norway (the studio owned by Ihsahn and partner Heidi Tveitan), additional work was completed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Amon Amarth) at Fascination Street Studios and Borge Finnstad (Mayhem, Borknagar) at Toproom Studios. Commenting about the record’s musical collaborations, "Asgeir (Mickelson) did such a great job on my last album (The Adversary, Candlelight 2006), that while in preproduction for angL I programmed a much more generic drum track to leave more creative license for him. It was on Asgeir’s recommendation that Lars (Koppang Norberg) contribute to the album. They both recorded at Asgeir’s studio (Multimono Studios) and it came together nicely." Working with Mikael (Akerfeldt), "Mikael and I go back as friends since the early nineties. We met up when Emperor headlined Wacken in 2006 and had a great time watching bands together. We talked then about doing something together at some point and in spite of busy schedules on both sides this luckily came to happen. Rough mixes of "Unhealer" with lyrics were sent to Mikael with the idea for both clean and growl vocals. He worked on it during his off-time recording the new Opeth album. I could not be any happier with the results." Writing for angL began early in 2007 and picked up momentum after the Emperor US performances early last summer. "I knew to a greater extent where I wanted to go with this album, though I feel all albums are a kind of struggle to overcome. Regardless of how many you make, it never gets any easier." An aggressive schedule to complete the album, in addition to recording projects for Hardingrock (in which Ihsahn also contributes) and Starofash (released February 26), Ihsahn completed album tracking in early December. With mixing and mastering completed early this year, the musician is already starting promotion with for the album; efforts that will take up much of his time over the coming months leading up to album release.
In other news AMON AMARTH have confirmed a few more festival appearances. “We are proud to announce that we will do our very first appearance in Serbia this summer. The show will take place at the Castle Festival on July 4. We are also happy to announce that we will be appearing at this years Lorca Rock in Spain on July 25.” AMON AMARTH have replaced the now apparently defunct Swiss metal band Celtic Frost on the billing of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 3-9, 2008 in Tolmin, Slovenia. Commented AMON AMARTH in a statement: "Despite the unfortunate circumstance, we're happy to return to Tolmin."
from the dark essence records web shop at www.darkessencerecords.no. You can also check out samples from the album on the same site. The album will be released worldwide on 21.04.08, and contains 9 tracks of epic and dark Viking metal. This is the sixth album from one of Norway's oldest and most revered viking metal bands. You have never heard Helheim so epic, dark and diverse before, and the band has progressed a lot since the celebrated album, "The Journeys And The Experiences Of Death" from 2006. Musically, this time Helheim focuses more on the monumental and epic versus speed and brutality. You can also expect more progressive and experimental part s this time, and the return of former member Lindheim is contributing on keyboards. There's also guestvocals from Marius Lynghjem (Corvine), Royce (HellHikers) and Bjørnar Nilsen (Vulture Industries) who also produced the album. "Kaoskult" describes the energy and force that lies behind the Northern creation. It describes everything from the vast emptiness to the creative energy through different uses of symbols. The band has also returned to Norwegian lyrics again, which really sets the atmosphere on the album.
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