Myrkur

Myrkur may be the one-woman atmospheric dark metal task of Danish songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Amalie Bruun. The term “Myrkur” is normally Icelandic and means British as “darkness.” Blessed in Copenhagen in 1985, Bruun continues to be an active studio room and touring musician since 2006, provides released two albums and different EPs under her very own name (non-e of which had been dark metal), and it is a member from the pop duo Ex girlfriend or boyfriend Cops. She’s been a style model, especially in the Bleu de Chanel advertisement aimed by Martin Scorsese. Myrkur agreed upon to Relapse Information and released a seven-track, self-titled debut EP in Sept of 2014. Using the launch came media interest concerning her identification. She exposed it within an interview with Bandcamp, and stated that Norwegian dark metal rings Darkthrone and Ulver, aswell as composer Edvard Grieg, had been her affects. Bruun created and performed all tools but drums. It had been accompanied by the demonstration solitary “Skađi” in Dec. In June of 2015, a fresh Myrkur recording was announced through the project’s Bandcamp web page; it was followed from the digital solitary “Onde Børn.” The full-length, basically titled M, premiered by Relapse in August. Documented in Oslo, Norway, the arranged was co-produced with Ulver’s Kristoffer Rygg (aka Garm) and presented contributions from people of Mayhem and Nidingr, aswell as horn and string players. Myrkur’s first-ever live show was headlining the “dark stage” at Denmark’s Roskilde Event. For the one-year wedding anniversary of M, Myrkur released Mausoleum, a live documenting through the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo, Norway, followed from the Norwegian Women Choir and previous Ulver guitarist Håvard “Lemarchand” Jørgensen. The arranged provided stripped-down acoustic reinventions of seven tracks from the prior recording, a Bathory cover, and one fresh track.