NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL OUTFIT MINNERIKET RELEASES VIDEO IN SUPPORT OF THE PREVENTION OF SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM AMONGST YOUTH

“WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE DARKNESS….” 

“We Need to Talk About the Darkness…” has been the constant thorny theme throughout Minneriket’s “Anima Sola” album. It’s an unpleasant topic: painful, awkward, distressing, uncomfortable… and largely unspoken of. Silent tragedy kept behind locked doors, words left unsaid, memories suppressed. 

With “Time for Suicide”, fittingly the final song on the album and the last video drawn from it, the topic is not only dragged violently into the light, but forced to the forefront as the viewer’s eyes are involuntarily pinned open to watch the representation of a jagged, festering wound in video format. Laying open the mind’s fatal infection is the only way to release the purulence and “Time for Suicide” does just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwj_7xHOEk&feature=youtu.be

With the release of this video, Akslen guarantees that 100% of the proceeds from the Minneriket webstore from now through the end of January will be donated to non-religious and non-political organizations working with the prevention of suicide and self-harm among youths. All prices have been dropped to an all-time low, but for those who may wish to add additional support for the movement there is the option to pay more when you place your order. 

Shop-link: https://minneriket.bandcamp.com/merch

In reverence to the September 10th World Suicide Prevention Day, all proceeds from the Minneriket webstore between Sept. 10th and Oct. 31st will be donated to non-religious and non-political organizations working with the prevention of suicide and self-harm among youths. 

All prices have been dropped to an all-time low for the occasion, but if you wish to support the case there’s always the possibility to pay more when you place your order. 

Shop-link: https://minneriket.bandcamp.com/merch 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jJuWRiEJo9wwyO6dnrzyl 

Official website: https://minneriket.com/ 

Lyric videos taken from Anima Sola: 

Tro, håp og kjærlighet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb97OfnX6go& 

An all too human heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T94IgerfmJ0 

Alle hjerter banker ei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpfCNJLXAM

Even on All hearts day, we'll take the time to remember that not all hearts beat... The lyric video for "Alle hjerter banker ei" (Not all hearts beat) premiered this Valentines day.

The single "An all too human heart" from Anima Sola is featured on this months Metalegion Magazine.

PIck it up here: http://www.metalegion.com/content/product/metalegion-magazine-2/

"Tro, håp og kjærlighet" from Anima Sola is featured on the Black Death compilation by Blackened Promotions.

Free download of the compilation is available here: https://blackenedpromotions.bandcamp.com/album/black-death

The single "Tro, håp og kjærlighet"  from Anima Sola is included on the covermount CD of this months Zero Tolerance magazine.

The magazine is available from http://store.ztmag.com/product/zero-tolerance-magazine-current-issue

Pre-orders of ANIMA SOLA are available NOW at

https://minneriket.bandcamp.com/album/anima-sola

Prices:

Digital album: 39 NOK

Limited edition CD with digital download: 120 NOK

Bundle with limited edition CD, digital download, patch and t-shirt/tank top: 180 NOK

The fourth full-length album from Minneriket “Anima Sola”, was created because we need to talk about the darkness. The previous two full-length Minneriket releases were lyrically thoughtful and introverted; “Anima Sola” instead speaks directly and frankly to the listener, offering an intimate look into the timeless melancholy that drives Minneriket. This album speaks of solitude and ineptitude, loss and yearning; humorless Black Metal with music and lyrics equally painful and raw. This album is a fist to the face, the sonic equivalent of an open wound.

The title and artwork are based on the catholic imagery of the lonely spirit burning in purgatory. The soul which is burning forever, but is never entirely consumed by the flames. It’s the war between spirits and matter, and fire as both a destructive force of nature and the kindle in your heart. 

“Anima Sola” sees official release on January 2, 2018 and is available in CD and digital formats; tracklisting is as follows: 

I. Tro, håp og kjærlighet 
II. An all too human heart 
III. When life gets sick the dead grow strong 
IV. I am the Serpent Son 
V. Between infinity and melancholy 
VI. Det lyset jeg ikke kan se 
VII. Sorger er tyngst i solskinn 
VIII. Alle hjerter banker ei 
IX. Smerte, skjønnhet og Satan 
X. Time for Suicide 

Pre-orders open at Dec. 22nd.

Artwork by Anna Marine
Mastering by Steve Nagasaki at Nagasaki Sound

The supermoon of December, the full cold moon has arrived, and so have the second single from Anima Sola: "Tro, håp og kjærlighet"!

In anticipation of the debut of what will be the band’s fourth full-length album in 2018, the single and music video for the track “Tro, håp og kjærlighet” can be seen and heard here:

Free/Pay-what-you-want download available at bandcamp:
https://minneriket.bandcamp.com/album/tro-h-p-og-kj-rlighet-single

“Tro, håp og kjærlighet” (“Faith, Hope and Love”) is a song with a sharp and accusatory pointed finger. This is the opening track, and the leading line «Can you believe in God when children wish to die?» (transl.) sets the tone for the rest of the album. While it is a peremptory indictment against blind faith, it also speaks volumes about the state of the world. It’s about self-destructiveness, about reaping what you sow, and about the brutality of merely existing. It revolves around loss, and uncomfortably asks all the questions we really don’t want to answer about ourselves. 
– Stein Akslen, Minneriket (2017)

Credits
“Tro, håp og kjærlighet” video conceived and produced by Stein Akslen 
Logo by the legendary lord of the logos Christophe Szpajdel 
Artwork by renowned goth artist Anna Marine www.instagram.com/annamarineart 
Mastered by Steve Nagasaki at Nagasaki Sound www.nagasakisound.com

Samhain is upon us, and Minneriket is proud to present the first single from the new and upcoming album!

Announcing the album “Anima Sola” to be unleashed January of 2018, and in anticipation of the debut of what will be the band’s fourth full-length album, the single and lyric video for the track “An All Too Human Heart” can be seen and heard here:

Free/Pay-what-you-want download available at bandcamp: https://minneriket.bandcamp.com/album/an-all-too-human-heart-single

Spotify-stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/52HmJZPpJdYXsQJM9nEQ8z

“An all too human heart” is the culmination of a mental fire and ice. The forces of Muspell and Nivl collided into a frenzy of poetic lyrics and hard riffs, willing this song to be a revolt against myself and my own myth. It echoes the works of Aleister Crowley and John Muir, and certain lines of the lyrics were written all the way back in 2005. It’s the most personally challenging and painful song I’ve ever done, because I had to work through so many demons in order to clear the right path for it to take shape and become what it wanted to be. To me this song is like looking into a broken mirror, not knowing if the cracks are in the glass or in yourself. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the darkness? – Stein Akslen, Minneriket (2017)

Credits:
“An all too human heart” lyric video production by YOD Multimedia https://www.facebook.com/yodmultimedia/ 
Logo by the legendary lord of the logos Christophe Szpajdel 
Artwork by renowned goth artist Anna Marine www.instagram.com/annamarineart 
Mastered by Steve Nagasaki at Nagasaki Sound www.nagasakisound.com