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Die isländisch-amerikanische Black-Metal-Band MARTRÖÐ wurde 2015 von einer Gruppe etablierter Künstler gegründet, die sehen wollten, was entsteht, wenn aus individuellen Wünschen eine gemeinsame Vision entsteht. Das erste Werk dieses Kollektivs – bestehend aus den Kernmitgliedern A.P. (SKÁPHE) und H.V. Lyngdal (WORMLUST) – war die gefeierte EP „Transmutation of Wounds“ aus dem Jahr 2016, ein düsterer Abstieg in vielschichtigen und intensiven Sound als Spiegel existenzieller Brüche.

Nach einer langen Zeit der Stille – MARTRÖÐ „spricht“ nur, wenn es etwas Wichtiges zu teilen gibt – erscheint 2025 eine neue Version des Projekts, um ihr beeindruckendes erstes Album „Draumsýnir eldsins“ („Traumvisionen des Feuers“) zu präsentieren.

The band comments:

"MARTRÖÐ remains what it has always been: a convergence of ideas and visions. While the outer circle has changed over the years, the two principal songwriters, A.P. and H.V., have remained constant, with the addition of Jack Blackburn, Magnús Halldór Pálsson, and a number of collaborators carrying the project’s essence forward. What ultimately defined "Draumsýnir eldsins" was time itself, not as a neutral container, but as an active force. The album emerged slowly, fragment by fragment, over nearly a decade. Its framing draws on the medieval tradition of the dream vision: the idea that through dreams we process what reason cannot grasp, and that within the surreal and fleeting there lies a higher truth."

To propagate their ominous vision, MARTRÖÐ has entered a pact with Debemur Morti Productions to issue the entity's debut full-length on December 12th. A foretaste of what's to come will be revealed on October 23rd, accompanied by pre-orders.

Concerning "Draumsýnir eldsins", MARTRÖÐ state:

"We are exploring the fragility of creation, thought experiments like the mortality of gods, and ultimately the dissolution of form, the waking nightmare. Our work is an exploration of collapse: angels constructed from broken remnants, divinity suspended in endless death, and reality revealed as a dream on the verge of vanishing. The darkness we try to channel is a portrait of being itself, a confrontation with nothingness until the dream ends."