Already when SEIGMEN released their album Resonans in 2024, it was revealed that this was the first step in an ambitious series of three albums over as many years.
The road to the next album, Dissonans, began that same year with the single : «Dyret 23 Bud» — a grand and powerful track with the signature Seigmen sound.
The journey continued in May this year with the release of Disiplin, a catchy up-tempo single bordering on punk, nodding back to early Seigmen.
On August 29, the band is set to release the third and final single before the new album comes out on October 23.
So what exactly is Dissonans?
Noise, untuned energy, or pieces that just don’t quite fit? Perhaps.
But dissonance can also mean contrasts — the soft against the hard, the love for beauty confronting the fascination of ugliness. Light and shadow. Enter: Så nært.
Listen to the singlere here: https://ffm.to/sanartseigmen
No one would have expected Seigmen to release a soaring ballad, yet here it is — a calm and steady song with a subtle yet seductive chorus. After more than 30 years, Seigmen still manages to surprise. Nothing about Så nært was predictable; the song itself came about by “accident”: a jack cable missing the input on a black Gibson SG guitar.
You can’t get sound from an electric guitar without a cable, and it needs to be plugged into an amplifier. During a rehearsal, guitarist Sverre missed the input jack, and the plug instead struck the guitar’s pickguard. It buzzed harshly, like an electric shock — but with a harmonic tone close to G. That became the seed of a beat, a pulse — and the song wrote itself, as it often does, reveals songwriter Kim Ljung:
“For me, music is like a jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces are there, somewhere in the air — you just have to pull them down in the right order. I’m not saying it’s easy, but that’s how it works. Don’t stress — if it’s meant to be, everything will eventually fall into place.”
And sometimes a song comes along that just soars. Så nært is one of those. Filled with hope. With air. With life. A song where vocalist Alex Møklebust lifts the choruses with an unusually intimate and personal vocal, creating space for the voice to rise where the steady monotony of the verses gives way and the chorus breaks in. Like when a rain shower suddenly ends and the sunbeams break through the clouds. That’s what sparked Så nært.
The upcoming album, Dissonans, is set to be released on October 23 — exactly 30 years to the day since the release of the legendary Metropolis, Seigmen’s major breakthrough.
Så nært is mixed by Mike Hartung at Propeller Music Division.
Recorded by Christer Krogh at Velvet Recording.
Produced by Alex Møklebust and Kim Ljung.
Mastered by George Tanderø.
Cover design by Sigurd N. Kristiansen.
SEIGMEN:
Alex Møklebust – Vocals
Kim Ljung – Bass, Vocals
Noralf Ronthi – Drums
Marius Roth – Guitar, Vocals
Sverre Økshoff – Guitar
ABOUT SEIGMEN:
It was an unfinished band that took to the stage when Seigmen (formerly known as Klisne Seigmenn) played their very first show during Christmas of 1989. However, even then, they had something unique that set them apart from the others, and their sound was undeniably different from all those they shared stage with. Even the conservative paper Tønsbergs Blad reported the next day that “Klisne Seigmenn outperformed the others.”
Fast forward to 1994, the year they released the EP “Hjernen er alene” and their third studio album “Total.”
From there on, Seigmen and their heavy and grandiose, yet catchy melancholy, defined the 1990s.
“Total” was later recognized as one of Norway’s 100 best albums of all time, and their fourth album “Metropolis” dominated the charts back in 1995 won a Spellemann award for Best Rock Album.
In 1997, “Radiowaves” went straight to number one.
Then it all came to an end, as out of nothing, the announcement came that the band was disbanding because guitarist Sverre was leaving. One for all and all for one. A few months before the previous millennium came to an end, Seigmen played their farewell show for a packed Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway.
But it wasn’t meant to end there; it’s almost unnatural to just let go of a good thing and old friendships forever. In 2005, the band reunited on stage for the first time in Dødens Dal in Trondheim, and in 2008, they were the first Norwegian band to be invited to play at the new opera house in Bjørvika.
However, the biggest event of the new millennium came in 2015 when Seigmen surprisingly released “Enola,” a full 18 years after “Radiowaves.”
Then on April 12, 2024,Seigmen released “Resonans,” their first album in nine years.
The choice of Velvet Recording as their studio is not a coincidence; it’s the same place “Total” was recorded back in 1994.
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