Seidr - A Vision From Hlidskjalf From "For Winter Fire"

SEIDR: New Track Streaming Now At Brooklyn Vegan

Today, Brooklyn Vegan has posted the public's first exposure to SEIDR's upcoming album For Winter Fire. The crushing, epic album opener, "A Vision From Hlidskjalf," can be heard now at this location.

  Seidr - A Vision From Hlidskjalf by brooklynvegan

Although SEIDR's roots lie in classic death/doom á la early Katatonia, they seamlessly blend an impressive host of other influences that ultimately make the band hard to peg down. Where For Winter Fire truly succeeds is in its use of American folk-based aesthetics, channeling the profound sorrow of early blues and bluegrass into something entirely more vicious and crushing. The album is paced like a glacier, giving ample time to digest its innumerable nuances. Moreover it is the rich layering that earns it the profundity to draw listeners in and get lost for the album’s hour-and-thirteen-minute running time.

Set for release in North America on May 24, and in Europe on June 7 via The Flenser, For Winter Fire is a monumental achievement in the genre of doom, and SEIDR undoubtedly encourage progress in the ancient art of doom metal.

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For Winter Fire Track Listing:

1. A Vision From Hlidskjalf

2. On the Shoulder of the Gods

3. Sweltering

4. In the Ashes

5. The Night Sky and the Wild Hunt

6. A Gaze at the Stars

7. Stream Keeper

SEIDR: Debut Album Details Revealed

  Seidr "For Winter Fire" Teaser by FlenserRecords

For Winter Fire Track Listing:

1. A Vision From Hlidskjalf

2. On the Shoulder of the Gods

3. Sweltering

4. In the Ashes

5. The Night Sky and the Wild Hunt 

6. A Gaze at the Stars

7. Stream Keeper

Indie metal entity The Flenser, who recently announced the signing of Louisville, Kentucky's avant-doom unit SEIDR to their potent label roster, today confirm more info on the band's debut full-length, For Winter Fire.

SEIDR's recently completed For Winter Fire debut boasts gargantuan, organic doom metal riffing displayed in an epic yet harrowing display of force. A slight post-metal atmospheric edge envelops the otherwise crushing tectonic force of the album's blackened-doom core. With direct ties to black metal act Panopticon -- also a part of The Flenser's label family -- SEIDR is already a name a diehard core of underground metal fiends are aware of, making the For Winter Fire release a label priority for the year.

Set for official release in North America on May 24, and in Europe on June 7, eager fans can actually pre-order For Winter Fire direct from The Flenser at a discount rate for a limited time. Check out an audio sample featuring several clips from the album and pre-order it at this location now.

Seidr “For Winter Fire” Pre-Order + Teaser Clip

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  Seidr "For Winter Fire" Teaser by FlenserRecords

“It is a rare delight to find an album that totally removes you from your surroundings and immerses you in a rich and deep universe of its own; this is precisely what Seidr have done with their debut For Winter Fire. Although the band’s roots lie in classic death/doom á la early Katatonia, they seamlessly blend an impressive host of other influences that ultimately make the band hard to pin down. Where the album truly succeeds is in its use of American folk-based aesthetics, channeling the profound sorrow of early blues and bluegrass into something entirely more vicious and crushing. For Winter Fire is paced like a glacier, giving ample time to digest its innumerable nuances. Moreover it is the rich layering that earns it the profundity to draw listeners in and get lost for the album’s hour-and-thirteen-minute running time. For those too lazy to use their imagination, Seidr’s most direct comparison is to the late great Bay Area funeral doom troop Asunder. Although there are musical similarities (funeral paced doom, somber clean vocals, acoustic instruments, etc.) where the two are most akin are in aesthetic. Similarities aside, Seidr is ultimately much more varied both musically and in terms of pace and thereby being a more attractive band to those praising musical diversity over strict aesthetic traditionalism. In the end, For Winter Fire is a monumental achievement in the genre of doom and there is no doubt in my mind that Seidr will encourage progress in the ancient art of doom metal. “ D.L.

Seidr is a doom project out of Louisville Kentucky featuring Panopticon’s Austin Lunn and Crow from Wheels Within Wheels.

The CD of this master piece is up for pre-order now. For the first 4 days of the pre-sale the cost will be only $7.50US/$9.50 World post paid. After the first four days the pre-sale price will go up and then up again when the record is released. Please support independent music.

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The Flenser To Release Debut From Animate Metal Sorcerers SEIDR

The avant-garde metal craftsmen at The Flenser are proud to announce the signing of the unique entity SEIDR to the label's growing roster. SEIDR's debut full-length release For Winter Fire is in its final stages of completion for the label and will be unveiled to the public in late Spring 2011.

With only a handful of self-released demos and EP's to their credit since their 2009 inception, the unit known as SEIDR are brand new to widespread metal legions as of now, but their organic postrock-influenced black/death/doom output is sure to fascinate forward-thinking fans of the contemporary bastardization of extreme metal. With the bulk of the band's lyrical content mainly centered on spirituality, nature and the cosmos, musical comparisons to the SEIDR sound can be traced to acts ranging from Asunder to Katatonia to Fauna and well beyond, with dramatic progressions raging from the beautiful elements of Alcest to the hallowing funeral crush of Disembowelment within the same hymn at times!

Formed in the open-minded music haven of Louisville, Kentucky, one of SEIDR's most notable aspects may be that one of the two main songwriters is Austin Lunn, the solo artist behind anarcho-black metal solo act Panopticon, with recent releases also a part of the Flenser family. Together Lunn (guitar, vocals, recorded drumming) and his songwriting counterpart Wesley Crow (guitar, vocals, recorded bass) wrote all of For Winter Fire, and recently revamped the band's full-time lineup to include live vocalist Jack Hannert and bassist Adam Nicholson. SEIDR completed several mini-tours of the East Coast and Midwest US in 2010, and already in 2011 completed a mini-tour with Falls of Rauros and Lake of Blood.

Expect sporadic touring from SEIDR throughout 2011 in support of the upcoming debut full-length, and expect the final details for this intriguing album to be released in the coming weeks.

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