Faroese singer-songwriter Eivør Pálsdóttir released 'Tungl' on Friday, October 16, her first album for Nuclear Blast Records and the follow-up to 'ENN' (2024). The title is the Faroese word for "moon," and the ten-song record arrives with a music video for 'Og Mánin Græt / And The Moon Cried', the song that opens the tracklist. The release is part of the partnership between Shinigami Records and Nuclear Blast, and physical copies can be ordered via ventas@shinigamirecords.com.
"The song is about a distant memory that still lingers, almost like a dream," Eivør explains. "I remember looking at the moon in the dark sky when I was little, wondering why it always looked so sad. I imagined all kinds of reasons and my imagination just got carried away." The video was directed by Gwenaël Akira, who, in Eivør's words, "understands my music in such a visual way" and captures "raw emotions, nature and a dreamlike, distorted reality." The director describes the work as a shared process: "For me, memory is water: it is always falling, even if it is only sometimes visible. Making this with Eivør was a real exchange. She listens and challenges, and every idea came back to me deeper than I sent it. We built this film together, the way a song is composed."
'Tungl' was announced in July after a long lead-in. First came 'Healer', released in May as her first new music since 'ENN': a dark track built on a steady pulse, distorted piano bass and cinematic strings, with a black-and-white video directed by Katrin Joensen-Næs. The album announcement brought 'Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden', which began as a poem finished with Marjun S. Kjelnæs and which Eivør produced and recorded with Tróndur Bogason and her band; its video, shot over two days in Svínadalur, Iceland, was directed by Kristinn Arnar Sigurðsson, known as Krassasig. August brought 'Verjugarðar / Walls', which the artist described as an epic, dark electronic rock ballad about two people who have lost what once bound them together. "'Tungl' explores the ever-changing cycles of life," Eivør said when unveiling the album, which she also called a gentle guide through life's darker passages. The record also features Faroese singer Elinborg on 'Fangað / Trapped'.
Eivør spent the summer in Europe, between headline shows and festival slots at Paléo in Nyon, Switzerland; Brutal Assault in Jaroměř, Czechia; Summer Breeze in Dinkelsbühl, Germany; and ArcTanGent in the southwest of England. To mark the release she plays three special concerts: tonight and tomorrow at the Nordic House in Tórshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands, and October 23 at Harpa's Eldborg hall in Reykjavík, with Una Torfa opening the night as special guest.
From there she heads to North America for 19 headline dates, from October 28 at Racket in New York to November 22 at the House of Blues in San Diego, with stops in Washington, Montreal, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, the Denver area, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among other cities. The European and UK tour begins February 24, 2027, at Store Vega in Copenhagen, reaches the Olympia in Paris on March 6 and London's O2 Forum Kentish Town the following night, and ends March 27 at Pustervik in Gothenburg. Tickets and information are available on the artist's official website.
Across a career of more than two decades and a catalogue that has moved through folk, rock, jazz, pop and electronica, Eivør has won the Nordic Council Music Prize and taken her voice into television and video games: she contributed to the music of the series The Last Kingdom and to the soundtracks for God of War and God of War Ragnarök. Much of the metal audience knows her through 'Trøllabundin', a throat-singing piece that became an unofficial anthem among fans of Nordic pagan folk. 'Tungl' is available on digital platforms, on CD and in several vinyl editions.
