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First taste of “Urd” exclusively launched by Metal Hammer

BORKNAGAR – Launch first new promotional song and new band-photo!   Norwegian Avantgarde Metallers BORKNAGAR are premiering a first promotional song off their much anticipated new studio album, “Urd”, today via the website of Metal Hammer (Germany). Go check out the enthralling track “Roots” here: http://www.metal-hammer.de/video-audio/premieren/article133604   BORKNAGAR’s mastermind Øystein G. Brun checked in to [...]

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Urd cover artwork

Front cover artwork and tracklisting!

BORKNAGAR – Reveal new album’s front cover artwork and tracklisting!   Norwegian Avantgarde Metallers BORKNAGAR are now unveiling the front cover artwork for their much anticipated new studio album, “Urd”, to be released on March 26th, 2012 in Europe as well as March 27th, 2012 in North America via Century Media Records.   The album’s [...]

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Day one Fascination Street studio report

Day one Fascination Street studio report

Our first day in Fascination Street Studios finalizing the mix of our new album has now come to an end- and what a day!! We are simply stunned by the sophisticated wizardry that Jens Bogren is able to squise out from his monitors. Almost like he open the gates to a new dimension in terms [...]

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Tweaking and experimenting with sounds.

Another session in studio

Hey folks! A little update from the last studio session and some other stuff that might interest. As some of you may have noticed we we had an really intense and creative session in studio last weekend. Our mail goal for this weekend was to record Jens’ basic guitars and then do some bass work. [...]

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Reamp session at Toproom Studio

Reamp session at Toproom Studio

Hello folks! So, Jens and me joined up at Toproom Studio over the weekend to re-amp my basic guitars. For those not familiar with the term “re-amp”, this  basically means to record the Di signals(which I did in my home studio) and then run th Di signals through a amp/cabinet in a proper studio to [...]

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Borknagar vs Fascination Street Studios

BORKNAGAR PRESS RELEASE JULY 2011   BORKNAGAR mixing upcoming album in Fascination Street Studio   BORKNAGAR is currently recording the next album roughly planned to be released in February 2012 through Century Media Records. The album will be mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at famous Fascination Street Studios in Sweden in November.   Øystein [...]

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Borknagar - David Kinkade & Øystein G. Brun

Hello From Toproom!

Hey Folks! Just wanted to give you an brief update from studio. I arrived Toproom Studio yesterday evening. David was already there on my arrival and he had already spent the whole day setting up and tuning the drumkit. This time around he will actually record with his own drumkit- or “boots” as he choose [...]

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