Besvärjelsen - Didn't Come to Party

 

 

Besvärjelsen - Didn't Come to Party

I don’t know about you… But I've been hearing the music. For even though we all can see the iceberg closing in, the band keeps playing. And sometimes I've even felt like chucking it all in, sitting down, listening to the tunes and wait for the final collision. But those weeks away, getting in touch with nature helps... But some things are worth waiting around for... Like new Besvärjelsen music! Ever since they blew me away with their Atlas album, I've been eagerly awaiting this. And there is a new album on the horizon now… Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem will drop on August 28th through Magnetic Eye Records and the first single and video dropped a few weeks ago while I was losing and finding myself in the mountains… Didn't Come to Party kicks down the door in expert and fitting fashion!

As the first glimpse into Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem, Besvärjelsen's third full-length, it dances through a room already teetering on collapse. It turns the celebration into spectacle and any  comfort you might have felt into chaos. The band never actually points an accusing finger, but the world's fractures echo through every note, every unsettling grin, every moment of beautiful disorder. Darkly playful and quietly devastating, the Didn't Come to Party single peers into the abyss with a crooked smile. A leering smirk! If this is the threshold of oblivion, Besvärjelsen make it impossible to look away. In fact… 

BESVÄRJELSEN comment: "There's a scene in the Titanic movie that has always stayed with me, when the musicians keep playing as everything falls apart around them", vocalist Lea Amling Alazam muses. "This is one of my all-time favorite moments in cinema, because it captures something important about music: the devotion, the need to create, and to hold onto something beautiful, even in the face of disaster. Like, we're literally going under, but hey, let's play. Dance to the sirens. In this day and age, it's hard not to be affected by the chaos of the world. 'Didn't Come to Party' is not a political statement but rather a cry of frustration. We're living on this incredible planet, so why are we destroying it? Why war, why poverty, why harm the most vulnerable, when we have the resources to make life better for everyone? This quite reminds me of people who show up to parties just to ruin it for everyone else. Why is there such a drive to hurt, to dominate, to tear things apart in the pursuit of power? It's senseless." 

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