Third in our round of interviews from Leeds’ Damnation we were able to speak to long time Black Metal underdogs Vreid. Having released their brand new album Solverv we spoke to frontman and all around nice guy Jarle Kvåle. Speaking about the album’s recording process, why the singer doesn’t discuss lyrics and the all important writing process where Jarle locked himself in a woodland cabin to conch the new album is Trve Kvlt. Listen to the full unedited interview below!  

About the new album, correct me if I am saying this wrong, is it Solverv?

Yeah that’s it!

What can you tell us about the new album?

It’s an album that we have been working hard on and it differs  from the previous album, whereas I usually just write and album or record an album for three or four months but this time I spent a lot of time with it and found a lot of old ideas that we hadn’t used before. So the album is, I would say it’s more of a product of what we have done from the last twenty years not just what we are doing now. There are songs there that were kind of created, well the ideas for the songs were created for ten or fifteen years back you know? I noticed that this album was going for a more extreme, a more black direction for the band so I kind of took back some of the first ideas we had for the band and rewrote those. In that way it’s come across as a bit different from the previous ones I guess…

Do you write all the music yourself?

Yeah

And then as a democratic decision,

Semi democratic haha! Well I write the music now and lyrics and then I work a lot p, especially with the drummer for the arrangement and then we include the guitar players and they do their stuff. Everyone is strongly involved but in the writing process I do it alone.

What was the writing process like for Solverv?

It was good! I actually went back and took over an old family cabin in a small remote valley in Norway. So I was just spending time rebuilding this cabbage… Cabbage, that’s good haha!

It’s very Black Metal,

VERY Black Metal haha!

So I spent a lot of time there and it was just good you know,, being isolated and just focusing on the music itself. Distancing yourself from envy day life and taking time off from normal reality more or less. It was a really good quiet and peaceful process to create the music.

What about the recording process?

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