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The long-awaited debut album from the Icelandic/US Black Metal ensemble MARTRÖРis now officially released. A profound, unsettling, and cataclysmic work, “Draumsýnir Eldsins” (‘Dream Visions of the Fire‘) channels dark primal energies into a vast and psychedelic netherworld. The album is available on CD and vinyl – including t-shirts – and can be streamed in full through Bandcamp and DMP’s YouTube channel.

“A cacophonous symphony of transcendental insanity!” (Toilet ov Hell)

Composers A.P. (SKÁPHE) and H.V. (WORMLUST) discussed the album’s creation in an interview with Rock Hard Italy:

AP: “Musically, the writing sessions for “Draumsýnir eldsins” felt almost dream-like. An experience that isn’t fully understood in the moment yet reveals its patterns and thematic threads only in hindsight upon reflection. It became a kind of mirror into the creative subconscious. My own writing began as a stream-of-consciousness exercise, deliberately silencing the overly analytical part of the mind and avoiding any conscious external influence, only working within the boundaries of a high-level vision. The process was simple: allow ideas to surface freely, then return to review, refine, and repeat. I think this approach is audible in the final work. There’s a cyclical quality to the compositions, mirroring the album’s unfolding narrative. While the record forms a self-contained story, each track may also exist in isolation as their own entity.“

HV: “MARTRÖРas a concept explores dream states in various forms and the divides between them and ‘true’ life, if there is any and ultimately through that the supranatural. It is about looking into dreams like pools of water that hold within them reflections of their surroundings, reality and beyond that the metaphysical. Through my own studies I decided dream visions not only fit thematically but also were time tested in revealing of what can be filed under hidden knowledge. You can impart upon the reader what you have learned in your own mental journeys through shared words and literary references.  Since dreams are forced upon you then they flow from the stream of the subconscious, which in turn reflects how the music was created.“

“Draumsýnir Eldsins” is available on CD, vinyl and digital. A special t-shirt design accompanies the launch. Orders are possible via DMP’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.

MARTRÖÐ began in 2015 not as a band, but as an experiment in convergence. It was never about the individual, but about what emerges when singular wills dissolve into a shared vision. In this sense, MARTRÖÐ functions as both seed and symptom: the impulse that later unfolded into Mystískaos, but also a form of collective dreaming in its own right.

The first articulation of this came with the “Transmutation of Wounds” EP in 2016, a work that did not seek catharsis but rather confrontation, a descent into layered sound as a mirror of existential fracture. After this, MARTRÖРentered a long period of gestation. What now emerges years later is not a continuation but a transformation: the full-length “Draumsýnir eldsins“, a cycle of dream-visions 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.

MARTRÖРhas 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.