With several line-up changes and turmoil, Tusmørke is re-inventing themselves on their 13th album, “Balderdom,” released on March 20, 2026 via Karisma Records. To celebrate the release, the band have unveiled the official music video for the single “Vi er et kollektiv,” available via the YouTube player below:
“The day belongs to the night
The four songs on side A came about in November 2022 for a winter solstice celebration at Oslo Badstuforening. Our take on this was that the solstice invites reflections on the relationship between night and day. Does the day spring out of the darkness of the preceding night or does the night follow and swallow the light of the day? Is it Saturday Night or Sunday Morning? Are we running from the past or catching up with the future? Moving from A to B, Lidskjalv has existed as a demo since the 90s. Many versions have been made, but this is the first proper recording of the song.
The passage of time is the future becoming the present. It moves forward in circles like a rolling wheel. Balder, Osiris and Jesus are all vegetation gods emulating the turn of the seasons in their eternal return. After the death of winter, life emerges anew. But not only this; there is also the promise of each dawn bringing a Better Day. According to Snorre, after the Fimbul Winter and Ragnarok, there is a new Earth. From the ashes emerges a better place. This holds also the idea of progress. It is at the core of being a prog band; each album is an improvement on the last, an exploration of new territory, a different perspective.
And just as the new and better world with Balder’s resurrection from Hel only comes AFTER Fimbul and Ragnarok, so each album goes through this phase, in its becoming, of struggle, adversity and slowing down to imperceptible glacial movement. Maybe this is more so with this album than before, with multiple personnel changes during the process. The future, however, springs ever green; from our personal Fimbul and Ragnarok, we bring you the rebirth of Balder. The night belongs to the day, each dawn more glorious than the last, in the rerun of forever and ever until the gears shift and a different sun shines on a new horizon.” – Benediktator
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Tracklist:
01. Svensk drøm (4:06)
02. Balderdom (Tres Jolie) (4:36)
03. Rerun of Forever (Stravinsky) (6:01)
04. Vi er et kollektiv (5:11)
05. Lidskjalv (20:54)
Lineup:
Brennesle / Drums, Percussion and Electric Guitar (5, intro and outro)
Kusken / Drums (Tracks 1-4)
Selve Kraften / Hohner Symphonic 30, Pianet T, Fender Rhodes, Spectral Modular Synthesis System, Mellothor and Yamaha Upright Piano
Krizla / Flute, Recorder, Vocals and Moog Minimoog Model D on “Lidskjalv“
Benediktator / Bass, Vocals, Electric Guitar, Mellotron M4000D, Moog Minimoog Model D, Roland SH-2, Roland TR-08, Glockenspiel, Percussion, Roland RE-201 and Handclaps
Oslo Badstukor was:
Conductor: Judith Utz
Soprano: Heidi Yvonne Paulsen, Synnøve Pedersen-Nafstad and Hege Langlo
Alt: Sara Febra, Hedda Sollerød and Maria Kaada
Tenor: Lasse Skovdahl, Derek Kiu and Line
Bass: Henrik Schirmer, Jørn Jensen, Lars Hallraker and Eva Düllo