Today the legendary metal pioneers in EINHERJER release their long-awaited 10th studio album “Lifeblood”. The album is a reflection around belonging, heritage and roots – both as individuals and as a band. After over thirty years of making music, they look back toward what shaped them and the forces that have followed through all these years.
Following the release, the focus-track “Gone” is accompanied by a captivating lyric video made by Costin Chioreanu in Twilight Media. Costin Chioreanu is also the artist behind the visually striking album artwork. The song “Gone” is about memory, grief, and continuity, a hardhitting and dynamic track.
The songs on “Lifeblood” revolve around the idea that beneath modern life, there are deeper currents still moving through us – instinct, memory and the echoes of those who came before us. The sea, the tides and the narrow straits that run through the landscape of the western shores, became natural symbols for these forces.
Founder, Frode Glesnes, explains about the meaning of the album:
For me, this album is about continuity. About how the past never truly disappears, but flows through us like a current. In many ways it feels like reconnecting with the lifeblood that has always been there – both for us as people, and for Einherjer as a band.
Time has not diminished EINHERJER. It has refined them. Hammers raised. Fire alive. Lifeblood unbroken.
”Lifeblood” is available for purchase in physical format in the By Norse Webshop and on Bandcamp.
Bio
EINHERJER was founded in 1993, on the western shores of Norway – where the Viking kings once ruled the passage that gave Norway its name. From this inheritance, EINHERJER rose. Not as followers of a movement, but as part of its own creation.
In the early years of Norwegian extreme metal in the 90s, EINHERJER stood among those who gave voice to a distinctly Norse expression within metal.
Their early recordings did not imitate tradition – they helped establish it. What later became known as Viking Metal was not conceived as a genre, but as a natural extension of identity, history, and place and Einherjer became one of its defining forces.
Through classic albums such as Dragons of the North, Odin Owns Ye All and Blot, and later works including Av Oss, For Oss and North Star, both nominated for a Norwegian Grammy, the band has continually evolved without losing its core. Their sound remains unmistakable – resolute, atmospheric, and grounded in the weight of heritage, yet never bound by the past. Their music does not seek to recreate a lost age. It stands as proof that its spirit endures. The same horizon that called the seafarers westward still lies open. The same impulse to create, to endure, and to leave a mark remains unchanged.
For more than three decades, EINHERJER has stood as one of the defining voices of Norse heavy metal, and with their 10th album Lifeblood the band prooves why they still are distinct and defining in the genre – not as an echo, but as a presence.
