IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal

Stagnant Waters album gets release date

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:14:04 -0700

Stagnant Waters, the French/Norwegian avant/black metal act featuring Svein Egil Hatlevik (Zweizz, Fleurety, Umoral, etc.), has finally confirmed that their self-titled debut album will be out on October 29 via Adversum. Check a sample tune here.

Umoral in the studio (video)

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:40:31 -0700

A quick behind-the-scenes glimpse of Umoral in the studio, working on their new album. Expect a February 2012 release, assuming all goes according to plan.

Umoral recording album

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:24:20 -0700

Norwegian nihilistic/porn-obsessed black metal act Umoral (feat. members from Mayhem, Nidingr, Zweizz, etc.) have, at long last, begun work on recording their debut full-length "Der hvor sola aldri skinner". No word on when it'll be out or who will release it, but I'll keep you posted.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:43:11 -0700

Norwegian filth-obsessed black metal act Umoral has a new track on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/umoral

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:15:24 -0800

Vendlus are offering a special Valentine's Day deal for the new Umoral 7": http://www.vendlus.com/?p=43

Top 10s for 2007: Svein Egil Hatlevik (Zweizz)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Ok, so I looked through the lists that have already been published, and it's clear to me that I should not write a list with some half-assed concept, nor should I write a list of all the fantastic things that happened to me this year -- seeing that I did not even get to point four on any of those egocentric lists that people submitted. Sometimes laziness is a good thing, because I was about to write one of those myself.

Here is my list:

Best Scandinavian albums of 2007 (although I probably missed out on a lot of good stuff), in no particular order:

Hans Appelqvist "Sifantin och Mörkret"

Bergraven "Dödsvisioner"

Manes "How the world came to an end"

Ulver "Shadows of the sun"

Shining "Grindstone"

Hild Sofie Tafjord "Kama"

Mayhem "Ordo ad chao"

Sten Ove Toft "Lit de parade"

Momrakattakk "Masters of Momrak"

Jens Lekman "Night falls over Kortedala"

I guess there are too many Norwegians on that list. I'll check out more music from other Scandinavian countries next year. Let that be my new year's resolution..

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Svein Egil Hatlevik performs under the alias Zweizz and is also involved in many other music projects such as Pronounced "Sex", Umoral, Fleurety and probably a whole lot of other names I'm forgetting. Oh yeah, he's also a respected Norwegian journalist.
www.myspace.com/zweizzmusick
www.myspace.com/umoral
www.myspace.com/pronouncedsex
www.myspace.com/fleurety

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Antenna talks to Svein Egil Hatlevik (Zweizz, Umoral, Fleurety, etc.) about what's up with his many musical endeavors: http://www.antenna.nu/zweizz/news2.php

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700

The mastering for the new Umoral 7" is done, so now there's a track posted on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/umoral
Umoral is a Norwegian black metal act featuring Zweiss (Fleurty, ex-DHG), Teloch (Nidingr, 1349) and drummer extraordinaire Hellhammer (too many bands to list). The record is due out in July via Vendlus.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Vendlus confirmed March 28 as the release date for Zweizz's new album "The yawn of the new age", but then Zweizz mainman Svein Egil Hatlevik learned that his old band DHG set March 26 as the release date for their new album so of course he had to one-up them and move his to March 24. Phew!
In other Zweizz-related news, Svein Egil Hatlevik has started a few new collaboration projects including something with Austrian black-metal act Abigor and something else with weirdo electronic? act Joey Hopkins' Midget Factory. He's also doing a new 7" with his old band Fleurety to be released on Duplicate Records post-summer, another band called Umoral featuring Teloch from Nidingr, and an as-yet unnamed ambient project with artist Kim Sølve. For more details and links to samples, go here: http://blog.myspace.com/zweizzmusick