No one carries the torch for Norwegian black metal with the same fire as 1349.
Four years ago, when live music was just crawling out from the shadows of the pandemic, the Norwegian black metal torchbearers exploded onto the stage in front of a sold-out crowd in their native Oslo. Now, fans everywhere can experience the band’s signature aural hellfire in the flesh with Winter Mass. This new live album includes songs from across their imposing discography, including early classic “I Am Abomination”.
Watch 1349 perform “I Am Abomination” live in Oslo.
Winter Mass comes out November 28 on Season of Mist.
Pre-order
https://orcd.co/1349wintermass
Pre-save on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/2zZcw3FlWSRP6sWvVChzlA?si=9JOvZOhRRUGR2aIMdz2I0A
Available formats
CD Digipack
2 x 12″ Vinyl Gatefold with poster (Black)
2 x 12″ Vinyl Gatefold with poster (Multi-Colored Splatter)
“I Am Abomination” first announced 1349 as a force to be reckoned in 2005 as the opening track from their landmark third album Hellfire. After two decades as a staple in the band’s set list, the song still blisters with unmatched speed on Winter Mass. Thrashing riffs and merciless blasts descend upon the Parakeet crowd like the black plague that bestow the band their name. “I will always be here / In all ways in all times“, snarls Ravn. What was once a proclamation is now a testament to their enduring firepower.
The same holds true for the album’s artwork, all of which bears the mark of Kim Diaz Holm. The Norwegian artist has captured more than 2,000 concerts, often while standing to the side of the stage. Holm has worked with larger-than-life artists like Abbath but developed a special connection with 1349 after drawing them at both Inferno Festival and Hulen in 2012. Over the past 13 years, he has continued to document the band’s incendiary live shows and even designed their merch. What he’s created for Winter Mass draws fans even closer to fire. Sketched while he was headbanging in the pit, these drawings leap off the page with the same raw, dark spirit as their muse.
More praise for 1349
“They will still take your face off from a mile away” – Metal Hammer
“…1349 is truly an aural assault on the listener” – Lambgoat
“Hair was flying and bodies were swarming in the pit untilt he very end” – New Noise
“…a band that has not fallen into irrelevance in the wake of the Norwegian black metal scene of the 90’s and that clearly has a firm idea of where they are going” – Angry Metal Guy
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