AN NCS PREMIERE: MORVIGOR — “MIDDEN IN DE WERELD”

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Jan 292024
 

By sheer coincidence, this marks the second premiere we’re hosting today from a band who are returning with a new recording seven years after their last one. This time the band is the Dutch quartet Morvigor, coming back from their hiatus with a new EP named De Spiegel that will be co-released on February 26th by Onism Productions and Vita Detestabilis.

We also hosted a premiere in the run-up to Morvigor‘s last album, 2017’s Tyrant. At that time, having overlooked the band’s full-length debut (2014’s A Tale of Suffering), we didn’t know what to expect. But when this same writer first heard that song we premiered, I wrote that “it felt like someone had stuck a live power line straight into my brain stem, by which I mean it is an absolutely electrifying surprise — one of the best new discoveries of this rapidly waning year”.

Having been stunned by Tyrant, this time it will be more difficult for me to come away surprised by Morvigor‘s multi-faceted, genre-bending sounds and their adventurous approach to song-writing. But that doesn’t make De Spiegel any less startling, as you’ll discover for yourselves when you listen to “Midden in de wereld“. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: MORVIGOR — “NO REPENTANCE”

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Oct 172017
 

 

In many instances I have a decent idea what a band’s new song is going to sound like before I hear it, either because I’m familiar with their previous work or because it’s preceded by descriptive verbiage from press agents that ticks off genre boxes in a familiar way. But not so with Morvigor.

When I was given the opportunity to listen to the song you’re about to hear from this Dutch group’s new record, I went in blind, unfamiliar with their 2014 debut album and without benefit of any carefully crafted PR rhetoric. And the band’s own list of influences (ranging from Mayhem to Pink Floyd, and from Morbid Angel to Joy Division) was so diverse that it didn’t really help much — though it was certainly intriguing.

And then I heard “No Repentance“, and it felt like someone had stuck a live power line straight into my brain stem, by which I mean it is an absolutely electrifying surprise — one of the best new discoveries of this rapidly waning year. Continue reading »