TROLLFEST PREVIEWS ARTWORK AND TRACK LISTING FOR UPCOMING ALBUM

Oslo’s self-styled True Norwegian Balkan Metallers TROLLFEST have today unveiled (below) the artwork for their upcoming album “Brumlebassen”, which is due for release on NoiseArt Records in August of this year.   Responsible once again for the amazing images that vividly depict the story of what will be the band’s fifth full-length album, is Swedish cartoonist Jonas Darnell, who originally created the iconic metal duck from TROLLFEST’s “Villanden” album, and has worked with the band ever since.  Terje Johnsen, who has been working on the design side of TROLLFEST’S releases since the “Brakebein“album, has once again teamed up with Darnell to produce the finished package.

Like all TROLLFEST’s albums, “Brumlebassen” tells a story about one of the characters that inhabit the fantastical universe created by the band.  This time the story is about Brumlebassen the Bee Keeper, whose task it is to care for the bees and brew the Honey Mead that is much loved by the Trolls.  Brumlebassen adores his bees so much that he would secretly like to become one of them himself and he is therefore depicted wearing a bee costume!  Track listing for “Brumlebassen”, which will be available as a Gatefold vinyl and limited digi pack including 12 tracks plus a bonus track, is as follows:

01. Brumlebassen 
02. Böse Tivoli 
03. Illsint 
04: Hevlette 
05. Finsken, Norsken and Presten 
06. Mystisk Maskert 
07. Apis Mellifera 
08. TrinkenTroll 
09. Verboten Kjærleik 
10. Bråk 
11. Sellout 
12. Rundt Bålet 
13. Konterbier (bonus track)

TROLLFEST, known for their exuberant stage performances which have won them myriads of fans wherever they play, recently announced that Tor Einar Rognhave (stage name St Beinhard) would be joining the band as a permanent member, to replace Per-Olav Wiik, whose personal commitments no longer allowed him the time needed for the extensive schedule of live appearances.  Immediately after their show at Norway’s Inferno Festival the band set off for a 20-date European tour with KORPIKLAANI in April, followed by appearances at ExtremeFest in Austria, Germany and Switzerland in July, MetalCamp in Slovenia in August (where something special has been planned), and the Heidenfest Tour in Europe  in October and November.   A tour blog for the April tour will be available here. More information about TROLLFEST can be found on the band’s website.

Below you can see the official video for the track “Karve” from the album “En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral”

Below can be heard  the track “Skogsfest”, a previously unreleased song that "TROLLFEST" recently uploaded for its fans.

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TROLLFEST’s “Brumlebassen” First Studio Trailer Available!

TrollfesT by Jonas Darnell

Work was set to begin this month on the fifth full-length album from TROLLFEST, the band that has eschewed musical convention by combining local folk sounds from their native Norway with those from the Balkans, and mixing them together with occasional melodies that could originate anywhere from the Latino countries to the Middle East, and topping it all with head banging metal and a generous dose of humour, in order to form their own genre of “True Norwegian Balkan Metal”. The band entered the Strand Studios a while ago to spend three weeks in the company of engineer Marius Strand to record drums, bass, guitars and main vocals, and then move on to their own “Trollskogen Recording Facilities” to record the extra vocals, choirs, and instruments. Updates on the recording, including photos and video, will be available on the band’s blog.

Watch below the first studio trailer:

The album will be called “Brumlebassen” and as with all TROLLFEST’s previous releases will tell a story involving Trolls and a certain amount of drinking. Without wanting to give too much away at this early stage a spokesperson for the band said that the storyline will revolve around a brewer called Brumlebassen who is charged with making the mead much beloved by the Trolls. Cover art for the album will once again be in the hands of Swedish artist and cartoonist Jonas Darnell and designer Terje "Andy Wartroll", both of whom have worked with the band for several years, and whose work on the band’s last album “En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral” has yet again proved to be a huge hit with the fans and an integral part of the overall TROLLFEST “experience”. 

“Brumlebassen” is set for release early next year on NoiseArt Records.

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