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Dødheimsgard Inferno and Roadburn shows

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I’m not usually the type to write these kinds of posts, but I feel I must.
Because I don’t want to seem like any of this has passed me by without meaning, or that I’m ungrateful for the beautiful things that have happened to me lately. Quite the opposite: I’m overflowing with gratitude and emotion, and I need to share it.
I’m still trembling after yesterday’s concert with DHG/Dødheimsgard Official at Roadburn Festival
Three days ago we performed in Oslo at INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL NORWAY and yesterday we brought last album «Black Medium Current» to life on one of the most breathtaking stages I’ve ever set foot on. The sound, the technical crew, the setting — everything was pure magic.
I had the immense privilege of singing backing vocals alongside my beloved Demonia Cristulcia , supporting and wrapping Yusaf Parvez voice, and playing the violin.
On stage, we stood as two flanks: the Spanish choral section on the left, and our wonderful Greek brothers on synths to the right: Pavel Ahouio and Vasily. There was an unspoken understanding between us, a beautiful complicity that transcended words and made the whole performance feel deeply connected and alive.
We spent long days rehearsing in Oslo: intense, beautiful, and soul-stirring sessions, not just musically, but personally. The conversations, the laughter, the silence, the mutual respect… those are memories I’ll carry with me forever.
Black Medium Current, although some may perceive it as a more accessible or straightforward album compared to what DHG has done before, is in fact an extremely complex and dark piece of work. It’s filled with raw, experiential nostalgia — a kind that feels real, lived, and haunting. I know from many people who truly connect with it that this is not an isolated feeling. Its depth is vast, layered like an onion — each listen reveals something new, like a plunge into the unknown. If you haven’t fully connected with it yet, I’d say: give it more time. It absolutely stands alongside DHG’s other albums in excellence, and perhaps even expands the emotional spectrum in ways that only become clear over time.
Together, we made many in the audience cry — and we cried too, overwhelmed by the emotional force of performing Black Medium Current in its entirety. Learning Norwegian to be part of this made the connection even deeper.
I want to thank every single person involved, and especially tag Yusaf Parvez and Cam for giving us the chance to feel useful, to show what we can do, and to be part of something greater than ourselves — a shared purpose: to stir hearts, bring tears, and remind people how powerful music can be.
And luckily… this is not the end. We continue next week in Barroselas, Portugal With full hearts, with all our energy and voices recovered,
and eyes still shining.
You can imagine a sentimental affection for the dying creatures of your childhood stories in Deemtee's experimental black metal landscape.
JVB
Scream Blast Repeat

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Entrevista con Nahrayan Podcast

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Ya se puede escuchar la entrevista que me hace el equipo de Nahrayan Podcast en el capítulo 36.

Ha sido un placer charlar con Juanj0))) sobre mi trayectoria, mis proyectos actuales y futuros, y algunos temas interesantes relacionados con la música, el cine, la literatura y los videojuegos.

Hablamos a fondo de:
💿 Hands of Necromancy 2 (2024) de Asciimov
💿 Strange Aeons & Deliriums (2023) de Deemtee
🎻 Y de As Light Dies y Garth Arum.

También hablamos de experiencia como músico en directo con bandas como DHG/Dødheimsgard Official y Void, además de reflexionar sobre el Avant-garde en el metal y más cosas interesantes.

🔗 Podéis escucharlo en las siguientes plataformas:
👉 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wI0AhH1DfzVXnralLhBss
👉 Ivoox
https://www.ivoox.com/capitulo-36-oscar-martin-as-light-dies-audios-mp3_rf_137718025_1.html
👉 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/cap%C3%ADtulo-36-%C3%B3scar-mart%C3%ADn-as-light-dies-asciimov-deemtee/id1628177036?i=1000683896107
👉 Deezer
https://www.deezer.com/es/episode/708371881?host=0&utm_campaign=clipboard-generic&utm_source=user_sharing&utm_content=talk_episode-708371881&deferredFl=1
👉 Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.es/podcasts/83f9e7f6-1025-496e-9d2a-af01d70dbe81/episodes/4932d210-205c-4ad6-b4fb-62633a6a6810/nahrayan-podcast-cap%C3%ADtulo-36-%C3%B3scar-mart%C3%ADn-as-light-dies—asciimov—deemtee?ref=dm_sh_XRbdI1jtajJ2HOxqApDhYyKFl&fbclid=IwY2xjawHzqj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVziyvwUO5WKuNyXg8qZDPpGTOsQ132gXd-dueB76OGzUHy8KfBmlVnrMA_aem_5qLnyxO2gyfFH991FdObiQ

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Joining Void (UK)

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Next year I’m playing guitars in Void, a very good and veteran avant-garde black metal band from England with some members and ex-members of Dødheisgard. You should listen their music if you didn’t, but I specially recommend their last album Jadjow.

LINE UP CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
Cam out -> Oscar In!!
Yes folks, sadly it’s time to say goodbye to our dear Cam Giraudeau, the Drowned Witch @cam_drownedwitch , without whom the magic of Jadjow would never have happened. Cam is departing Void to free up more time for his other projects, which are all ramping up and demanding more attention: DHG/Dødheimsgard Official, @Doedsmaghird and Dreams of the Drowned. We wish him all the very best and commend him on finally realising you can’t be in every atom on every plane of existence at the same time. So Long Cam and thanks for all the riffs!
Void are delighted to announce that taking his place for our upcoming Live shows (and foreseeable) will be multi-instrumentalist @nnightmarerr Oscar Martín Diez-Canseco, of numerous avant garde metal and other genre projects, including: As Light Dies Garth Arum Asciimov and Deemtee
Join us in welcoming this amazing talent at the first Jadjow era Void show in London on February 1st at Dark CloudsOver Camden Retribution Alive: Dark Clouds Over Camden

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Dodheimsgard in Roadburn Fest 2025 (Tilburg, NL)

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After Inferno Fest, Cristina and I will join again Dodheinsgard for Roadburn Festival 2025 in Tilburg, to perform full Black Medium Current album.

Very excited to play Roadburn next year.
In a genre where «special» sets always means playing decades old records, makes it extra special that Roadburn wanted a special set consisting of a record made last year. A dream come true for yours truely for sure.
I wanna share some thoughts my close friend Mat McNerney took the time and care to compile on his own initiative. Thank you, both thoughtful and insightful as always my friend:
«An important thing to happen I feel, where a truly innovative and ground-breaking Norwegian Black Metal band DHG/Dødheimsgard Official gets booked to Roadburn. A critical tipping point perhaps for the genre if I may be so bold, and in my humble opinion.
Roadburn is well known for booking bands that push the boundaries of heavy music and their tagline, «Redefining Heaviness», amplifies their intent to do so. Yes we have seen minor and trad Black Metal bands or new fangled ones claiming to be, of all shapes and sizes play Roadburn before. Sometimes to my ears it’s felt that, some of those newer Black Metal acts are uninformed, newb outsiders, co-opting or «culturally appropriating» the genre for want of a talking point, rather than actual genre-shifting music. It’s all good. New stuff has to come out and be championed and Roadburn is essential for that. However, I cannot think of another true Norwegian Black Metal band that has had such a real and definite influential impact on the genre, being able to sit beside an act like Michael Gira of Swans or Steve Von Till from Neurosis and command the same artistic weight and merit as DHG.
All the while, throughout the years, Yusaf Parvez and his musicians (rather than characters and meme-geists that some of the old 90s Norwegian BM media fame seekers have become), refuse to become a tribute act resting on the laurels of an increasingly irrelevant past (ahem Dimmu Borgir etc). My criteria for using that term, «true Black Metal» about DHG is of course my own and there are those purists who will refuse to accept that the genre can ever be more than a very restrictive definition. It’s a «one false move and you’re out of the club» scenario for them. Fine, it’s your cake and you can eat it. However, as someone who has briefly been in Dødheimsgard, come into it from the outside and lived to tell the tale, I know without a doubt that the band has been and always will be from that true source. A listen to the album that they have been booked to play, Black Medium Current, and why it is such an important album for them to play in this context, reveals that they remain true to that spirit of individualism that made the scene what it was at the time (yes Kronet Til Konge was actually as late as 1995, but who with any little sense doesn’t put that album in the pantheon of the greats?).
As Kerrang said, they are «still throttling into the unhinged unknown» or Blabbermouth about them: «just as they have done since the end of the 20th century, Norway’s premier eccentrics are dealing with bigger ideas and grander ambitions than most». Black Medium Current does the unthinkable, it actually musically innovates and updates the genre in 2024. Not from the place of someone who wasn’t there in the early 90s but from one of the bands who defined it. That’s part of why the album has been on so many top 10 lists I reckon and surprisingly why the old guard have taken it to their hearts, perhaps including re-appraising the bands past, now they can see the red line through their creative arc? Of course you can ignore Black Medium Current and what it means. Stay hung up on the blueprint of spikes and leather your whole life if you want. I shamelessly love retro Metal. Nothing wrong with cosplay. But an Instagram camping essentials kit list does not a hiker make!
If we go back, it’s hard to even explain what a seismic impact Satanic Art and 666 International had upon their release, but there was palpable shock, awe and I would say a nervousness within the bands of their national scene. Like all truly great art it was then controversial and met with some kick back from the stuck in the mud traditionalist international audiences (if we think about the tour after 666 with Dimmu Borgir for example). Ulver, I would say, left the genre behind so long ago and if we take the example of say Enslaved, they have brought elements of retro Prog into their work, but isn’t it merely swapping one retro element for another (and I say this from a place of admiration for their work) rather than changing the game? I think about Deathcrush and the Conrad Schnitzler intro – Silvester Anfang and where we can see that influence of ideas better now in a Norwegian band of this era than in DHG? Fearlessness about genre clashing and embracing non traditional cultural musical references (ie things that are not acceptable or deemed cool) are what for me opens intellectual dialogue in a more effortless way than gestures about an artistic aesthetic or political ideology, no matter how genuine or worthy. Even scientific studies say music transcends cultural boundaries, louder than politics. But there too, unafraid to stare cancel culture in the face, DHG have played a controversial festival like Steelfest and taken the discussion head-on. As someone so rightfully commented on Roadburn’s page: «they have replied and explained why they played there. They are not a right wing band, whether or not one agrees with playing that fest or not seems besides the point.»
Vicotnik, of Indian descent, was wearing colourful makeup, sequined top and a skirt in 1999, shooting you with a wink and a plastic toy gun, and yet it’s only now that a dialogue about race, sexuality and/or gender in Black Metal is somehow ultra-modern?!
Perhaps I’m a grumpy old gatekeeper or still a niave fanboy without a clue, but I think it’s a brave and bold booking and I just wanted to express my excitement. To Walter and Becky and Yusaf I tip my hat. I have never hidden my unbridled enthusiasm for both Roadburn and DHG. Now two worlds collide in a way that makes my own sonic universe sit right. ALL WITHIN, WE WILL WIN!»
Mat Mcnerney

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Dodheimsgard in Inferno Fest (Oslo) 2025

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Cristina R Galván and I will be part of Dodheimsgard show in Inferno Fest, Oslo in 2025.

Being my home turf, we’re gonna prepare something quite unique.

DØDHEIMSGARD
In the vibrant spirit of collaboration and artistic expression, DHG (Dødheimsgard) is set to deliver a memorable performance at the esteemed Inferno Festival during Easter 2025. This special show promises to be a remarkable fusion of avant-garde black metal and experimental soundscapes, showcasing DHG’s evolution as a band while honouring their roots. Fans can anticipate an immersive experience, featuring a carefully curated setlist that will highlight an innovative presentation of new and old material. With the Inferno Festival’s reputation for celebrating the best in the extreme music scene, we have bestowed upon DHG the honour of opening the 2025 event with extended stage time starting at 16:15. In return, DHG promises to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime performance with multiple twists and turns.

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Dodheimsgard in Servants of Chaos festival!

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I’ll be joining DHG/Dødheimsgard Official once again, performing at the Servants of Chaos festival in Oberhausen, Germany. 🎶🔥

For those who don’t know, I’ve had the honor of collaborating with them live on violin during their concert in Barcelona, and now I’m thrilled to join this incredible band once more, along with their new side project, Doedmaghird. It’s going to be equally epic and apocalyptic.

See you there!

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