Morten Veland (SIRENIA, MORTEMIA and founder of TRISTANIA) released the fifth Mortemia song from ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’ today. The track is entitled ‘Kråkevisa’ (The Crow’s Hymn) and features Lindy-Fay Hella from the band Wardruna on guest vocals, it’s available on all digital platforms as of today the 29thof September 2023.
Here follow quotes from Morten and Lindy-Fay:
Quote – Morten Veland:
I’m proud and honoured to welcome Lindy-Fay Hella from Wardruna as my special guest for ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’. The song we have done together is an old traditional Nordic folk song called Kråkevisa. It’s a song that both me and Lindy-Fay learned to sing in elementary school, and we’ve both loved the song since then. We have made our own version of the song that is quite different from the original, we slowed down the tempo quite a bit and made it heavier and more melancholic.
I feel truly privileged and thankful to have Lindy-Fay on board this project, and I am really pleased to be sharing this song with you all. The song is available on all digital platforms now.
Quote – Lindy-Fay:
Hi, I am Lindy-Fay Hella and am the guest on Mortemia’s new track, Kråkevisa, the Crow’s hymn. I was absolutely thrilled when Morten asked me to do our very own version of this traditional, Scandinavian song. An old favourite. It is about a man in the forest and his battle against a giant crow. One of the lines goes something like this: “Never have I heard something that shameful! Have you ever heard of a crow capable to kill a man?”
After 11 years of silence Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Morten Veland activated his solo project Mortemia during the early stages of the Covid 19 pandemic, this time with a brand new concept consisting of collaborations with multiple guest singers. ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’ was a series of singles released on a monthly basis, each song featuring a well known and highly profiled guest singer from the metal scene. Now he is ready to endeavor on the next project entitled ‘The Covid Aftermath Sessions’, once more the project will feature multiple amazing guest singers.
So far the following singers has contributed for his collaborations:
Madeleine Liljestam (Eleine)
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Ayreon, MaYaN, Dark Horse White Horse)
Alessia Scolletti (Temperance, ERA)
Liv Kristine (Liv Kristine, ex-Theatre of Tragedy, ex-Leaves Eyes)
Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum, The Dark Side of the Moon)
Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers)
Maja Shining (Forever Still)
Erica Ohlsson (Metalite)
Heidi Parviainen (Dark Sarah, ex Amberian Dawn)
Zora Cock (Blackbriar)
Linda Toni Grahn (Anima Veil, ex Follow the Cipher)
Caterina Nix (Chaos Magic)
Federica Lanna (Volturian)
Ulli Perhonen (ex-Snow White Blood)
Ambre Vourvahis (Xandria)
Fabienne Erni (Eluveitie, Illumishade)
Lindy-Fay Hella (Wardruna)
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