FREDLØS

What do you write to someone who shaped your life but is no longer in it? Amira Liv Hernan, known from the Danish death doom band Konvent and formerly of Danish black metal legends Solbrud, answered with Fredløs, which means outlaw in Danish but also holds the meaning of being without peace. It began while Solbrud was still running and became her whole focus once that band was over. The self-titled debut, Fredløs (Over The Under Records, 2026), is what grief sounds like when it has stopped holding back: ravaged, desperate, and almost unbearably beautiful. It took two years to make and is written as farewell letters about loss and about love, not least between friends. Around Hernan gathers a circle of musicians from Scandinavian DIY scenes.

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The music keeps two extremes within reach and lets both stand as equally true. Guitars ring out in long, echoing tremolo lines, drummer Jonas Bangstrup of Offernat (DK) stays at the front of every song and drives it forward, and three string players thread through the whole album, giving the heaviest passages a mourning edge. Hernan speaks, growls, and screams, sometimes within the same song, so the words arrive like a letter read aloud before they break open. Black metal is the root, but streaks of blackgaze, indie, and catchy melody keep surfacing, and the sound thins out into stretches of real tenderness, where the quiet feels as exposed as the heavy.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Fredløs is only just finding its way onto stages, and that makes this a chance to meet it while it is still new and definitely raw. How a seventeen-minute farewell letter, a string section, and a voice that moves between whisper and scream, between rage and calmness will travel from record to room is a question worth being there for.