Does this contrast of the ancient and the contemporary also play a role in your everyday life? Your music in general has a pretty archaic aesthetic, although you work with various kinds of modern styles of music. I’m pretty sure that started as the original idea but David wanted to move in another direction and we all agreed that it fits, the sparseness suited how we all felt at the time. I’m not so sure I could answer this with any authority, as David is the master of art in the band – but the artwork inside the jacket is extremely detailed and intricate. Was that a conscious decision in terms of the lyrical concept? The artwork of „Eventide“ looks a lot more subtle and symbolic than those of your previous records. There is a perspective that becomes apparent when you realize how far away everything is. When I was young, I would go outside – regardless of the weather – and just stare at the sky if it was clear – observing the stars and anything else. What memories and impressions do you personally associate with the night? The album does not have a theme, but the songs share an element of darkness, endings, death and sacrifice – so the title seemed to fit for this particular collection of songs. However, the song titles also suggest different song contents. The album’s description coming from your label and the artwork suggest that the mysteries of the night constitute the basic theme of your new album „Eventide“.
Who doesn’t enjoy validation? I don’t keep after it that much though, I’m more focused on the next few things… I’ve read a couple positive reviews, which is always encouraging. How did you perceive the reactions to your new record? That’s a hard question to answer – I think it was just circumstantial, there were some band tensions throughout this last album (Justin Siegler is no longer with TFOS), different life pressures, a changing world, job demands, the list goes on… Recently, you take a few years to release new albums. In your early days you released new material pretty quickly. Has the pandemic also affected the creation process or the song material of your new record „Eventide“?Īctually, no – the material for this album was started as far back as late 2017, and we had the album finished by 2019 – the pandemic just delayed the release. It’s really too bad we did not pull together as a country to end it once and for all, but we cannot do such things anymore in the USA it would seem. I am not afraid of science, so I took the vaccine – so I am ready for it. The thing I miss the most is live music, so I hope to partake in that again soon. How have you been coping under these circumstances so far? Whether you consume it at an intimate campfire or throughout stormy evenings, with Skadi they have created one of their most passionate and artistic recordings to date.In the USA, the situation with the pandemic seems to be slowly getting back under control.
From pulsing waves of doom and stoner, decorative rock and prog to expanding glances into folk spiked with black metal-esque sparks. There is a certain fresh simplicity in structure, though the further you delve in, the more complex and soaring it becomes.
The flight of sleipnir v full#
Skadi creates another extraordinary venture, full of extreme metal and polarizing tension. Taking inspiration from earlier recordings which work as the creative drive, they forge their trademark sounds ahead once again in Nordic spiked splendour wrapped in a new life-form. Following on the heels of the 2014 album V, the sixth full length Skadi shows the Colorado individualists The Flight of Sleipnir more focused and settled.
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