Martröð began as an international dissonant black metal project in 2014, comprising members of Wormlust (H.V. Lyngdal), Skáphe (Alex Poole), Chaos Moon (Jack Blackburn) et al, and a cast of contributors have produced a fevered maelstrom of transformative proportions: waves of percussive supremacy propel orchestrated arrangements of event-horizon riffage and unhinged vocals, revolving into dimensions where the mind turns in on itself. Following up sole previous release
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Martröð began as an international dissonant black metal project in 2014, comprising members of Wormlust (H.V. Lyngdal), Skáphe (Alex Poole), Chaos Moon (Jack Blackburn) et al, and a cast of contributors have produced a fevered maelstrom of transformative proportions: waves of percussive supremacy propel orchestrated arrangements of event-horizon riffage and unhinged vocals, revolving into dimensions where the mind turns in on itself. Following up sole previous release, 2016's lauded Transmutation of Wounds EP, a work that did not seek catharsis but rather confrontation, a descent into layered sound as a mirror of existential fracture. After this, Martröð entered a long period of gestation. What now emerges years later is not a continuation but a transformation: The project's inaugural full length Draumsýnir Eldsins (Dream Visions of the Fire) blazes through four transcendent, maniacal tracks that revel in organised chaos and infernal surrealism, as swarming Black Metal bludgeon meets avant-Classical and psychotropic noise, where humanity dreams its own apocalypse, angels are stitched from remnants, divinity is suspended in endless death, and creation collapses as the dreamer stirs awake. Martröð has remained intentionally outside the categories of stage, permanence, or identity. It exists in the unwaking hours, in the liminal space where visions take form. Its essence is the alignment of forces that briefly converge to give voice to dissolution, not performance, but invocation; not continuity, but the persistence of a nightmare that survives only through its recording. In the words of Martröð: "Draumsýnir Eldsins is a rite of vision, built around the structure of the medieval literary device “dream vision”, where sleep becomes the gateway to veiled knowledge. Sleep is not rest; it is a passage. Dreams are ritual space, a sacred current connecting the human mind to cosmic forces. What unfolds is symbolic truth seen through veils of nightmare and trance. Each lyric functions like a sigil or a visionary mirror, invoking a symbolic feedback loop of creation and collapse, presence and absence, silence and revelation."
