Former Thorr’s Hammer Frontwoman Reissues Solo Album; Now Streaming
Runhild Gammelsætter is probably best known as the former frontwoman of Thorr’s Hammer, whose doom ran so deep that the depths of 1996’s Dommedagsnatt (their only album) have not yet been plunged.
That band would go on to spawn Burning Witch, SunnO))) and a host of other acts, and Gammelsætter initially released the solo offering Amplicon in 2008. If you’ve never heard it, it sounds completely and utterly fucked.
Amplicon is reissued this week via Little Black Cloud Records digitally and on vinyl (no love for CDs these days), and in honor of that, here’s the complete album stream from Gammelsætter‘s Bandcamp page as well as some PR wire-type info on the release. In case you were wondering what “experimental” means, here’s this:
Runhild Gammelsætter boasts an impressive resume of accomplishments, both musical and otherwise. At 17 years old, while a foreign exchange student, she formed the influential doom metal band Thorr’s Hammer. Since that time she has gone on to create music with a variety of collaborators, including the drone doom project Khlyst and SunnO))). As if her musical accomplishments are not enough, Gammelsætter also holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from the University of Oslo, is a Fulbright scholar, a model and a painter.
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n 2008, she released her first solo record, Amplicon, on Utech Records. Now, thanks to Little Black Cloud Records, Amplicon is finally seeing a digital and vinyl release, both for the first time, and with new cover art done by Gammelsætter herself.
Amplicons are pieces of DNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events. Amplifying from a minute non-tangible idea creates something larger which may be experienced with the auditory sense. Amplicon sees Gammelsætter as a creation operator, increasing the number of particles in a given state, undertaking the operation necessary to amplify ideas to sound.
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