Anterbila - Avart

Deep in the Swedish hinterlands, Änterbila have forged “Avart” (‘Aberration’) - a blackened folk metal descent into the darker currents of national folklore. If their debut opened the door to a world of superstition, “Avart” strides further inside, told not from the perspective of the wandering listener but through the eyes of the adversary. - Here dwell the outcasts and the damned: the murderer fated long before the act, the smith whose forge burns with otherworldly fire, the troll king ruling unseen, the man cursed to live and die as the ulv. - The stories are told without compromise, the music captured in stark immediacy - recorded with almost no retakes, shaped collectively yet still guided by the band’s founding vision. - The sound shifts between the unruly and the enchanted - riffs caked in grime, melodies veiled in the haze of old superstition. Echoes of Arckanum, Taake, and Panphage linger, yet Änterbila occupy a realm entirely their own. Violins, bagpipes, and spectral female vocals - courtesy of Thomas von Wachenfeldt, Halte Galten, and Malin Runefelt - weave bright threads through the darkness. What emerges is both vicious and spectral - the clash of steel in a torchlit hall, the weight of unseen eyes in a twilight forest. “Avart” doesn’t merely tell its tales; it traps you within them.