Nortt Returns with Dødssang

Nortt is back. Dødssang [Danish for death song] drops March 28, 2025, via Avantgarde Music. After nearly a decade of silence, the Danish funeral doom master returns with an album that sounds like the void itself. No light, no relief. Just slow decay.

Carrying forward Nortt’s signature blend of oppressive darkness and spectral melancholy, Dødssang is a descent into the void, a continuation of the artist’s singular vision of despair and death. Stripped of light and hope, the album embodies the weight of mourning, weaving desolate funeral dirges with the cold nihilism of black metal. Each track unfolds like a slow collapse, where cavernous echoes and skeletal melodies drag the listener into the abyss.

Dødssang is the voice of decay and desolation; Bøn til døden being my favorite song of the album, it begins with a few melancholic piano notes that blend into slow, repetitive riffs, reverbs and distortion, followed by drums and deep, doom-filled growls – creating the sound of nothingness itself.

Time hasn’t changed Nortt. It’s only made him sink deeper. Dødssang is funeral doom at its bleakest—a suffocating atmosphere, unrelenting gloom, and a total absence of life.

“Dødssang,, marks Nortt’s first release since 2017’s Endeligt, yet time has only deepened the artist’s dedication to sonic misery. With its suffocating atmosphere and unrelenting gloom, the album reaffirms Nortt’s place at the forefront of funeral doom’s bleakest expressions.”