

She was Director of Music at Nidaros Cathedral 2002-2012. In 2010 Nidaros Cathedral Choir premiered Torbjørn Dyrud's passion music "Out of Darkness" in a scenographic performance in the cathedral.Ĭonductor Vivianne Sydnes was educated as an organist and choirmaster at the Norwegian Academy of Music and has a diploma in conducting from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

In 2010 the choir released their album NIDAROS which included samples from these works. In the course of Vivianne Sydnes's ten years as artistic director, the choir has commissioned and performed a number of works by both young and established composers, among them Ståle Kleiberg, Henning Sommerro, Torbjørn Dyrud and Wolfgang Plagge. The choir regularly contributes to church services at Nidaros Cathedral and has established itself as a major player in the musical life of the city of Trondheim. Nidaros Cathedral Choir was started in 1946 and consists today of about 40 singers. Life is the light of mankind, and we can rise out of the darkness. Out of Darkness continues through the kingdom of death and out of the grave, leaving us with the gospel of love that overcomes and endures everything, a gospel of grace and forgiveness. The work is not a passion in the traditional sense, since it does not end with Christ's death. Allow yourself to be moved by Nidaros Cathedral Choir, Sarah Head and the musicians in their presentation of Dyrud's dramatic music. New music and album pre-order info coming soon.Torbjørn Dyrud's work OUT OF DARKNESS presents you with the most famous story of Christian culture - Christ's passion, death and resurrection - in a form you have never heard before. As always, we are Living Darkness and so are you.” We are always conjuring ways to keep our live shows visually stimulating while delivering some ass kicking heavy metal.

As far as live gigs, we are looking into planning a tour for 2021 and are looking forward to seeing everyone’s beautiful fucking faces out there. We will be filming our debut music video soon and we plan to release it prior to our album release. However, we have created a coherent musical world of metal that allows us to get thrashy with tracks like “Swimming in a grave” and “Evil Embrace,” while venturing into more melody with songs like “Delusion” and “Blood On Fire.” We are one of those bands that can have different musical feels without losing our sound. We consider ourselves to be a straight-up heavy metal band. Our debut album titled The Bishop will surely plant a seed into our listeners’ brains. Metal Assault is exactly what Living Darkness needs and we are proud to join forces. We wanted to be part of a label that not only would allow us to wave the metal flag, but one that would truly allow us to be who we are as a creative group of musicians. “We are absolutely ecstatic to be officially part of Metal Assault Records. Living Darkness had this to say about the signing, the album and immediate future plans: The band has hereby revealed the cover art for the album, as attached below for your viewing pleasure (click the image for a hi-res view): LIVING DARKNESS – The Bishop cover art

The 42-minute LP boasts ten scorching, face-melting tunes that are most certainly destined to satiate fans of all things sonically heavy, particularly those of the traditional heavy metal ilk. Living Darkness will release The Bishop on October 9 via Metal Assault Records. Following last week’s announcement of Los Angeles heavy metal group LIVING DARKNESS signing with Metal Assault Records, we are now pleased to reveal the cover art and details surrounding the band’s debut album.
