Artist: Bissesvinet
Title: Blodager
Format: LP, Digital
Label: self-released
Genre: Experimental Rock
Release Date: 08/11/2024
Welcome to Blodager! Out of Gothenburg’s rocky Kungsten Studios, the four prophets from the plains of Denmark step down and prepare to preach to the people! In their colourful chasubles, the middle-aged cavemen confess to their god Bissesvinet. With them, the preachers bring a vinyl record with ten exalted visions, in the form of songs, about human folly and the futile desire for love.
Bissevinet is a brand new encounter between two of the Danish music scene’s most unruly offspring: songwriter and singer Bisse and the experimental rock band Svin. Together they have created an expression that is electric and biting – like a blow to the chest – like a prophet’s divine revelation!
The collaboration was based on two simple dogmas: Svin composed the music and Bisse put words to it, alternately shouting and singing them as he pleased. This forced Svin to diverge from their typical instrumental soundscape, to allow space for screams and narrative elements. On the other hand, Bisse was forced to rely solely on his voice and lyrics within a musical realm he was unfamiliar with and unable to control. This artistic encounter, where everyone in their own way pulled up the anchor and surrendered to the rebellious sea of music, resulted in the ten revelations of songs that make up the album Blodager.
Bissesvinet comment: “Blodager is a place for the outcasts. In this bloody field, we stick our snouts in the mud and stir up all the cursed emotions of mankind. Join us for the outcasts, the unforgiven sins, the unholy and uncircumcised, the daughters and sons of perdition! We sing death laments for the strangers buried beneath our bloody ground and roar our anger, fear, scorn, envy, contempt, lust and hatred. We give vent to our shameful longing for violence, death and destruction. Let Blodager become a place of pilgrimage for those who weep. Those who are bad yet wanted it well. Come to us! Let us unite! Come to Blodager!“
In painter Joakim Drescher‘s disturbing vision of an album cover, we are introduced to the landscape of Blodager. We find ourselves on a plain at night where ghostly, overgrown lizards flutter around in the sky. The red earth is soaked in blood, the Danes’ detached houses are left looted and dilapidated, and hordes of mutated domestic pigs have broken out of the production halls and are now preying. Together with the harassed survivors of an unknown disaster, they are on a journey. As a small, peculiar entourage, they advance in this godforsaken night. In their glittering, colourful robes – purple as the sunrise, blue as the sky’s lapis lazuli, emerald green and topaz yellow – they are not helpless. They have seen the light. They have heard the angels! They are bringing an album. They are Bissesvinet!
Tracklist
1. Blodpenge
2. Bud
3. Dødsklage
4. Shulamit
5. Judasevangeliet
6. Veråb
7. Svinehyrden
8. Grædemuren
9. Samson
10. Harmageddon
Blodagerturen 2025
07. Feb. RAV • Brøndby, Dk
08. Feb. GIMLE • Roskilde, Dk
13. Feb. HUSET • Aalborg, Dk
14. Feb. RADAR • Aarhus, Dk
15. Feb. HARDERS • Svendborg Dk
20. Feb. GENERATOR • Ringkøbing, Dk
21. Feb. MOMENTUM • Odense, Dk
22. Feb. HOTEL CECIL • København, Dk
Links
Bisse Instagram: https://instagram.com/showbisse
Bisse Facebook: https://facebook.com/bisseminven
Svin Facebook: https://facebook.com/SVINmusic
Svin Instagram: https://instagram.com/svinmusic
Svin Bandcamp: https://svin.bandcamp.com
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