🎶 Evig Natt
🌎 Karmøy, Norway
📀 Vaketimen
® WormHoleDeath
📅 20/02/2026
EVIG NATT is an experienced Doom/death metal band. Since their founding in 2002, they have released 3 studio albums and are getting ready for the fourth with the title «Vaketimen», which translates as «wake up time», taking a step forward in their creative path.
If we even combine the meaning of the band’s name, which is «the eternal night», then we can easily guess the style and atmosphere created by this particular album. This combination of Doom, Gothic and Death Metal with Black and Folk touches creats an apocalypticand suffocating atmosphere and offers us 10 songs that talk about loss, grief and death. The feeling that the listener gets is that of absolute emptiness and despair expressed through the combination of growl vocals by Stein Roger Sund and clean, ethereal vocals by Kirsten Jorgensen. Essentially we are talking about the two sides of the same coin. The same tragic event is narrated by two different people who experienced it from upclose.
What sets EVIG NATT’s music apart is the dual character of their music. Sometimes dynamic and sometimes soft, like the rollercoaster of emotions that someone experiences in such difficult circumstances. In the first half of the album, we could say that the participation of the two singers is quite balanced and the tension is higher. Towards the end, Kirsten takes the lead, but Stein Roger also has an important contribution. The use of English, Norwegian and Sami gives an exotic beauty to the album and emphasizes the folk character that exists in several songs, for example in the introduction of «Grataslaget». Personal Favorite moments of the album are the perfectly balanced «Sorrow My World» with the addicting chorus, the heavier «Death» and also the atmospheric «Eahparas».
«Vaketimen» is not an album that is easy to listen to but that is what makes it so special. Emotional attention is needed and the listener needs to dig deep in his soul to feel for the pain of the artists.
★ 8,5/10
✍🏻 Kostas Boudoukos
