Swedish hard core Viking rockers BROTHERS OF METAL tease November album with cinematic masterpiece, ‘Filmbulvinter’

SWEDISH eight-piece hard core Viking rockers BROTHERS OF METAL today release a wonderfully, crazed, over the top cinematic video for ‘Fimbulvinter,’ the title track of November’s album, released via AFM Records.

“‘Fimbulvinter’ is ‘the great winter’ in Norse mythology,” said guitarist, Dawid Grahn. “A winter that is colder and darker than all other winters and lasts for three years. It’s one of the first significant indications that Ragnarök is coming.”

BROTHERS OF METAL are a spectacular phenomenon on the metal scene, their shows a mixture of powerful songs, martial outfits – including archaic weaponry – all paying homage to heavy metal, and the Norse gods.

Their first two albums, ‘Prophecy Of Ragnarök,’ and ‘Emblas Saga,’ quickly earned the Swedish outfit a glowing reputation, with forthcoming studio LP ‘Fimbulvinter’ set to showcase not the band’s individual strengths, but also a number of new elements. 

“The core sound is still there, but we’ve evolved as songwriters, so the songs have more depth and width than before,” adds vocalist Mats Nilsson. “Our songs follow the same themes as before even though we’ve ventured into new territories and explored new stories. We always aim to have one song that fits everyone on each album, with the result that our hymns tend to sound like a lot of different genres of metal. That’s how we like it. We’re Brothers of Metal, we can play whatever we want to!”

The majority of songs were penned by Grahn, singer Ylva Eriksson, and drummer Johan Johansson, with the other band members, Nilsson and Joakim Lindbäck Eriksson (both vocals), guitarist Pähr Nilsson, bassist Emil Wärmedal, Johansson and new live guitarist Christian Larsson

all involved in the songwriting process.‘Fimbulvinter’ was recorded at the Massiv Musik’s Studio in Mockfjärd, Sweden, and produced by Erik Berglund.

Further info and details of November’s EU tour:  https://www.facebook.com/brothersofmetalofficial/

(Main photo (c) George Grigoriadis)