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Svart | Relentless Downfall | 2024

Italian Symphonic Black Metal

Artwork by Sözo Tozö

Six Senses Svart, Holandsfjorden fjord, Norway,

The hotel is the first building to be designed and built after the highest energy efficiency standard in the northern hemisphere. It will harvest enough solar energy to go back into the system, covering the hotel, adjacent operations, boat shuttle, and the energy needed to construct the building – rendering it independent from the power grid. 

Such energy-positive buildings could deliver 89 per cent of the 45 per cent decrease in emissions required to reach the scenario where global warming is limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. 

As such, Six Senses Svart is the northernmost implementation of the Paris Agreement, demonstrating that carbon neutrality can be not only feasible in a sophisticated development at an eco-sensitive site, but can also be profitable.

It will also be self-sustaining, complete with its own waste and water management, recycling, and renewable infrastructure. The team will work with existing sustainable fishing and farming operations and engage local like-minded suppliers for the restaurants and bars.

Designed structurally by Snøhetta, the 94-key Six Senses Svart will combine a futuristic design, led by interior design studio, Space Copenhagen.

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin - Suspira - Live Soundtrack Experience LP

Lichtvrees by Doodswens

Dutch duo Doodswens plays an elemental sort of black metal, by turns vigorously engaged by the form’s kvlt rootedness in tradition (cold and raw) and simultaneously, rapturously open to contemporary atmospherics (grand and cathartic). So, it’s elemental in a double sense: sometimes reducing the music to base substances, and sometimes reaching toward the stars, from whence all elements come. The band’s new LP Lichtvrees commences with “In Mijn Bloed,” a song that concentrates on paying tribute to black metal’s Northern European orthodoxy. It’s a sensible move for a young band to make. Doodswens has been releasing music for only a couple years, and anyone who has paid even minimal attention to the kinds of chatter that circulate through the black metal underground knows the deep significance attached to terms like “ancient,” “primitive” and “reverence.” The twist? Doodswens comprises two young women, Fraukje van Burg, who plays guitar and sings, and Inge van der Zon, who provides percussion. Tradition?