Experience MYrkur's Ethereal world in the monochrome video for new single "Juniper"

Over the last couple of years, Danish composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Myrkur (Amalie Bruun) has built a formidable reputation as a unique and highly divisive act within the world of black metal.  By incorporating traditional folk instruments, highly layered melodic vocal arrangements, and more accessible pop hooks into a core of savage and frostbitten blackened melancholy, she has gained considerable popularity from both admirers and "trve kvlt" naysayers alike.  Regardless of personal opinion, it is difficult to deny the legitimacy of her unprecedented and idiosyntractic style.

Having just announced an upcoming EP, Myrkur has now shared a video for the project's title track and first single, "Juniper".  With haunting black-and-white imagery underscored by bleak, droning, yet surprisingly catchy riffs, the clip is an apt representation of Myrkur's trademark juxtaposition of refined stoicism against raw emotion.  Based on this track, it seems that Bruun has finally broken through the volatile early stages of Myrkur's innovation and settled into her own easily recognizable sound, slowly transitioning from upstart curiosity to genre mainstay, a reputation I feel she readily deserves.

Juniper will be released via Relapse Records on December 7th, featuring two tracks recorded with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios in Bedfordshire, England.  You can pre-order the EP or stream the first track now on Myrkur's Bandcamp.

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