Newly Formed Danish Bissesvignet Reveals Second Single Dødsklage from Upcoming Album.

Dødsklage is the second single from the newly formed supergroup BISSESVINET, which consists of two of the most unruly offspring of the Danish music scene: singer-songwriter Bisse and experimental rock band SVIN.

The band will release a vinyl record with ten exalted visions, in the form of songs, about human folly and the futile desire for love. The album is called Blodager and will be released on November 8th.

Second single Dødsklage is inspired by the Book of Amos in the Old Testament. Here, Amos the sheep farmer has a vision in which he predicts the Lord's punishment on Israel.

In Bissesvinet's interpretation, it becomes a universal lament for the wrongs people commit against each other. The song promises them death and misery, and lets no one off the hook. Even the carefree and trusting far from the war will be punished for the wrongs committed by their brothers and sisters.

With muted drums, a guitar sound and composition reminiscent of the hymn and folk tradition, and not least the graceful clarinets, we experience a completely different side of Bissesvinet on their second single.

Listen share: Bissesvinet - Dødsklage (official single): https://orcd.co/dodsklage

No one could have predicted the unique energy that emerged when songwriter and singer Bisse contributed to experimental rock band SVIN's latest Danish Music Awards winning release Introducing SVIN (2022). The result was the song Bøn, which, based on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, is a sombre and desperate plea for people to ask for forgiveness for their sins. In SVIN's primitive and nightmarish music, Bisse's lyrics are redeemed so that you feel for the poor prophet of doom in the song.

The collaboration whetted their appetite for more, and in December 2022, the four now self-proclaimed high priests travelled to Kungsten Studios in Gothenburg to record an entire album together. Here, Mathias Glavå recorded Bissesvinet's ten new songs directly to analogue tape in four days. 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.

Svin's music is sensuous and dynamic with its processed saxophones, jagged strings and Thomas Eiler's unorthodox, tribal drum syncopations. It is at times chanting and monotonous, suddenly unpredictable - never far from outbursts of anger or sudden contemplative fervour. With Henrik Pultz Melbye and Lars Bech Pilgaard's pulsating ostinatos as the driving force, the listener travels great distances in the length of the songs. Bisse's artistic response to this wild, and in some ways ancient, music is drawn from the Holy Scriptures. From both the Old and New Testaments, the false prophet paraphrases these marvellous parables and visions from the depths of ancient history. And he does so as the devil himself reads the Bible.