NYTT LAND - 'Fimbulvinter' 

CSR234CD (6 January 2017)
CD in 6-panel digipak (sold out)
Barcode: 0641871744886

CSR234CD (28 January 2021)
CD in 6-panel digipak
Barcode: 0641871744886





Second edition of NYTT LAND's 2017 album, which quickly sold out on first pressing.

Notably outstanding on the Russian scene and largely compared with the legendary Wardruna, NYTT LAND are unique in their devotion to ritual Northern music and tradition. Their approach, using genuine native hand-crafted instruments, and true Old Norse, help them to grasp the true spirit of ancient Northern music like no one in Eastern Europe has done before. Their music is mostly based on the sources from Poetic Edda, performed in original Old Islandic.

"Fimbulvinter" is enriched with instruments like bagpipes and trembita (Alpine horn), and throat singing skillfully used to illustrate the occurrence of the forces of chaos; chthonic monsters in the world of men and gods. Fear and powerlessness alongside belief in the coming revival, renewal.

All Scandinavian mythology is permeated with fatalism, humbleness to fate. The same mood saturates "Fimbulvinter". The first part is dedicated to the creation of the world and people, embodying the warm seasons. The second half to winter, the death of all living things.

6-panel digipak featuring all lyrics.

Tracklisting:

1. Dauði Balder (Völuspá, 31-35) (3:49)
2. Gullinkambi (Völuspá, 42-44) (5:49)
3. Ár Var Alda (Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, 1-4) (6:37)
4. Fimbulvinter (3:50)
5. Gjallarhorni (Völuspá, 46-48) (5:31)
6. Fenris Kinder (Völuspá, 40-41) (5:10)
7. Hittusk Æsir (Völuspá, 7-10) (5:01)
8. Sal Sér Hon Standa (Völuspá, 64-66) (4:32)
9. Surtr Ferr Sunnan (Völuspá, 52,57) (5:24)
10. Bróðurbana Sínum (Hávamál, 89-91) (8:02)
11. The Last War (5:11)
12. Winter Day (5:36)



Reviews:

"the use of instruments creating a particular ritual atmosphere is absolutely amazing. The bewitching female vocals and the unique somewhat deep-throated male vocals inject an extra ritual dimension to the work. You really get the impression to watch an imaginary series dealing with ancient rites. There’s a strong visual appeal emerging from the tracks. This work features 12 songs and there’s not a single cut to throw away... This is an album filled with magic getting the listener into a state of worship. This is also the kind of ritual music injecting a refreshing breeze to the usual standards of dark-ambient and related music genres. This will be for sure one of my favorite albums of the year!" (9/10, Side-Line)

"there are songs, an interest in the changing of the seasons, plus and the use of archaic instrumentation... Not for the faint-hearted; imagine a less benign version of Phurpa, allied to themes stripped of any hope of redemption. Not as atmospheric as our Pagan French chums above, but still a real chiller; the female voices are particularly strident and keening, and utterly remorseless in their delivery of what I can only assume is a message of deathly doom... Like Wardruna, I sense that these Russians are more interested in building a closed-off secret society, for which they alone hold the keys"(The Sound Projector)

"This is a beautiful, engaging epic release... To say this music resembles a film soundtrack does it nowhere near enough justice as it is far grander and needs no visual accompaniment to have impact. I cannot recommend this release highly enough." (Midlands Metalheads) 

"...a ritual, mesmerizing and shamanistic character... In the vein of acts like Skuggsjá, Danheim and the likes, yet especially Wardruna, this band permanently create a tension, building up, expressive, transcendental, hypnotic, spiritual, ritual and magical, taking the listener through dimensions of Old, visiting sacred and secret places long forgotten, crossing land of ancient glory, consanguinity and victory – not necessarily of the bloodthirsty kind, yet referring to the pride and coherence of old" (90/100, Concrete Web)

"To me, its their best album so far. New instruments were used and Natalya sings way more often than on the other releases. Real atmospheric, deep music that takes you on a journey while the Fimbulvinter begins..."(Heidan Frihals)

"Zvuk je božanstven. Nordijski bogovi su oko nas. To je ono posebno što cenim kod njih, a to su ručno pravljeni muzički instrumenti. Malo je bendova koji toliko polažu na tradiciju i očuvanje svoje i svetske kulturne baštine... Dosledno do samog kraja i sve napravljeno za uživanje!... Ovaj album je za sada njihovo remek delo!" (10/10, Celtic-Slavic)

"Rituales nórdicos dotados de melodía y equilibrio... doce temas que sorprenden por su cuidada composición y su variada instrumentación, mucha de ella automanufacturada... La mayor parte de los temas que estructuran Fimbulvinter nos ofrecen un estilo cargado de cadencia y belleza ornamentado a base de robustas percusiones, flautas que no cesan en ningún momento de regalarnos melodías independientes cuya finalidad es fusionarse en tempo a la estructura principal, enriqueciendo el resultado del sonido... " (NOmelody)

"Was die nordische Tradition betrifft, so sind Nytt Land einer der wenigen Vertreter, die sich damit intensiv befassen... Nichtsdestotrotz ist und bleibt "Fimbulvinter" eine interessante Angelegenheit und wer nordische Folklore und rituellen Folk in seiner Sammlung hat, der sollte sich diesen Silberling aus der Manufaktur Cold Spring Records nicht entgehen lassen." (Raben Report)