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Northern Gothic

by Vederkast

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shutts This is a proper rock album. Fab deep, moving vocals compliment the heavy musicianship. I have read reviews classing this as stoner, maybe, but with a nordic twist and all the better for it. Favorite track: The View.
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FDJ (Desert Psychlist) Norwegian stoner metal with a little prog leanings, clean throaty vocals and riffs aplenty! Favorite track: Skirmish.
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1.
Skirmish 05:36
Go away, leave today Let your body rest again Stay behind and you will find This will never see the end You kept on going home Claiming that you sleep alone And then you’d let me in Leaving traces of our sin Forlorn and torn Your blood evokes a thorn Give way for shame Give way for lust Years have passed, you stand fast It has drained all that I had When will I come inside? You will thank me once you’ve tried You hear my restless voice Shouting out to you, the coy Deep down you know what’s real Still you pretend you cannot feel Forlorn and torn Your blood evokes a thorn Give way for shame Give way for us Yet you look nowhere to find What keeps me alive (it’s you) You stop at nothing to hide Yourself from their eyes
2.
The View 04:49
Put me in the safety box Don’t ever open up All seems lost, the state I’m in Hard to reach the top The love you give’s not good for me Cannot comprehend Trust in me will get you lost I’ll show you the view from Where I stand My world My plan begins My world My plans Your fall begins Fences around me float away Now it’s up to see All this space it grows on me Lifts me from my knees Moving eyes they stare and wait Doubting every step Closer to the floating fence I’ll show you the view from Where I stand My world My plan begins My world My plans Your fall begins
3.
Malison 04:14
Drag me back into the black hole The light of day wrecks my soul Find it closing in Seasons of joy have left me Find the path, don’t look back Once I‘ve found it my soul can rest Lower my hands, I touch the ground My head rises up, but there’s no sound Still there’s no sign of depths from below Stay on the path, I’ll get there Find the path, don’t look back Once I’ve found it, my soul can rest Moment of truth has confronted me I know where I am, where the ground leads Dazed and confused, don’t know where I stand No matter where, this will be my end Found the path, I looked back Don’t know where my soul can rest Found the path, look straight ahead Take my last steps
4.
My Burden 07:06
Stroke your silky hands on my wounded soul Heal all of me, take your time I won’t go Years of abuse takes its toll, now I’m sold To your everlasting sin Let it begin Lay my burden in your hands, then blows away Swirling hefty then it lands Back in place Darkest corners of my mind, were hard to bear But now I breathe and I have found You are there Chase out the storm and set it free Fed by your warmth, the greatest thing Chase out the storm I wish I lost A million miles ago and a million to go Deep seas plunging over me, hard to breathe Force myself to rise above On my feet This, my final battle’s come to show me To stand alone in the dark I will be
5.
Cold night, flashing lights Eyesight, left to right Searching for one last thrill Don’t stop at anything Take it further into a dark hole Lose your mind and just let go Undefeatable, you know When it’s your time to shine In the darkest of times Leave them behind Just one thought in your mind Crossing the line Slowly slipping into place Burning rubber finds its way Until the end I will live my friend Come with me, I will set you free Over and again Push it till the end Nothing will be the same This will make a change Take it further into a dark hole Lose your mind and just let go Undefeatable, you know When it’s your time to shine In the darkest of times Losing your mind Just one thought in your mind Crossing the line Slowly slipping into place Burning rubber finds its way Until the end I will live my friend Come with me, I will set you free Found my friend at last Memory from the past Trust in who we are We have come this far
6.
Take the heat and turn it into Your own strength, cause you need to Find your place, where you belong to Face the past and turn it into Time will fade and time will heal Can you see what is real? Look up on the giant wheel Grinds and turns, never stops Let go of your time Just be free Lean into the unknown Let it be Take the heat and turn it into Your own strength, cause you need to Find your place, where you belong to Face the past and take it with you Let go of your time Just be free Lean into the unknown Let it be Pull Crawl Through the dirt you Slept Woke All the time you Dreamt Saw Yourself be in charge Now you can finally see
7.
You brought me into this world I would never choose another way What can I say when it is over? We’ll meet again another day Sorrow, remorse and anger The day your river lost its flow I had to see you leave The day your beacon lost its glow Why take you, the brightest star of all? So here I am, alone I stand Wish you could be here for the days to come I’ll make the best of them, I swear You’ll never see me giving up You’ll never see that I don’t care So here I am, alone I stand But I’ll never forget, your legacy lives on And when it’s time for me to follow you I hope you’ll help me guide the way through And that you’ll open up the gates for me Then with you once again I’ll stay
8.
Meliora 05:25
Saw through the glimpse of my own sin There will be hope for everyone Losses will come, shaping our path We will have won, together we stand What comes around here won’t go away Fighting our demons, force them to stand Building our strength, to once rise again Learn from our loss, from that we’ll gain Follow the stream guiding our way Closing us in, see through the glimpse What comes around here won’t go away Facing our demons, force them to stand Saw through the glimpse of my own sin Losses will come, shaping our path We will have won, together we stand What comes around here won’t go away Facing our demons, force them to stand Losses will come, shaping our path We will have won, together we’ll stand
9.
Remain 08:44
Bits and pieces crumbles into the mash Coming together then tears it apart Repeating itself The future we built gave some hope for us all We came from nothing now it falls apart It’s starting again We hide in the woods to stay clear from the fall Roots that surrounds us build fences up high No one’s getting in Sensing that time is coming for us all Keep our heads down, waiting for the call We will rise again Free from it all Blisters in my hands leaves a trace of hope One by one falls Forgotten, in the end we will remain Time is standing still as we wait The silence will break at the end of the day The only one standing gives me a place to be safe Time is standing still as we wait Free from it all One by one falls

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Vederkast is a band emerging from prolific music scene of Northern Norway. The members come from diverse musical backgrounds: stoner; metal; hardcore; and pop bands. This experience is forged into melodic, heavy hitting, riff laden stories of loss and redemption on their debut album Northern Gothic.

The album is full of forceful musical ambition respectful to, but not bound by, traditional elements of hard rock. The band aims at creating songs that connect to the audience, while at the same time surprising the careful listener.

The band is based in Tromsø, a town above the Arctic Circle, where dramatic nature has a profound influence on culture. In Northern Norwegian myth vederkast are enchantments that creatures from the underworld wield wilfully upon the innocent.

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released October 23, 2015

Produced by Yngvar Mehus & Vederkast
Engineered, mixed & mastered by Yngvar Mehus at GRStudios
Recorded at Lydproduksjon studio, Tromsø

All music by Vederkast
All lyrics by Vederkast

Paul-Rene Aronsen - Vocals & bass
Finn Fodstad - Guitar & backing vocals
Sindre Bakland - Guitar
Magnus Tornensis - Drums & percussion

Additional guitars and bass by Yngvar Mehus
Skirmish - Cello by Bernt Simen Lund
Malison - Organ by Tarjei Antonsen
My Burden & Meliora - Strings by Bernt Simen Lund,
Julia Neher, Brynjar Lien Schulerud & Andreas Haug

My Burden - String arrangement by Kjetil Andreassen

PR & creative consulting by Maja Sojtaric

Cover design by Sunniva Johannessen

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