__________.____ ______________________________ .__ _______ ________ \______ \ | \_ _____/\_ _____/\______ \ |__|\ \ / _____/ | | _/ | | __)_ | __)_ | | \| |/ | \/ \ ___ | | \ |___ | \ | \ | ` \ / | \ \_\ \ |______ /_______ \/_______ //_______ //_______ /__\____|__ /\______ / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ artist: B├ñrkdum title: Journey to the Helheim year: 2025 genre: Black Metal type: Album label: Forgotten Dungeon Records language: English rel. date: 2025-08-08 source: WEB/MP3 quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo runtime: 00:38:27 size: 95.59 MB rip date: 2025-09-13 source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/785506041 tracklist: 1. Crossing Gjallarbr├║ 5:20 2. Nine Nights of Silence 7:32 3. The Watcher↓s Gaze 6:12 4. Shadows of Hel 9:16 5. Oath for Baldr 5:48 6. Return Through the Mist 4:19 release notes: Journey to the Helheim marks the rebirth of B├ñrkdum, and more than that, it reflects my own journey leading to this very moment. From the beginning, B├ñrkdum was never just a band, it has always been an extension of myself. A raw, personal, and inescapable expression. After walking many paths, exploring other projects, and enduring long periods of creative silence, I now return to where it all began. But I do not return as the same. I return transformed, shaped by the experiences, the losses, and the revelations that have forged not only the artist, but the man behind the sound. The journey of Herm├│├░r into Helheim, seeking Baldr, is the metaphor that carries the soul of this album. Just like Herm├│├░r rode alone through nine nights into the realm of the dead, this work represents my own descent into darkness, and the slow, painful ascent back to the light, with wisdom as the only reward. This album is not merely a collection of sounds. It is a ritual. It is silence, cold, and shadow turned into music. It is B├ñrkdum reborn, more introspective, more atmospheric, and more truthful than ever before. - Douglas (The Unwanted) Sinsuk