Fjord – Out now

September 17, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

Finally the date has arrived, and Nidhögs debut-ep is live. The ep delivers powerfull and melodic black metal. The quartett sets out to bring the second wave of Norwegian black metal back, and is on the path with this debut.

‘Fjord’ er også et prisverdig stykke arbeid til å være første gang Nidhög gir lyd fra seg, og byr på akkurat passe velprodusert, melodisk og kraftfull svartmetall.
Metallurgi.org (In Norwegian)

The ep is produced, mixed and mastered by none other than Tom Kvålsvoll at Kvalsonic Lab, who’s done mastering bands like 1349, Arcturus, Emperor, Borknagar and Darkthrone, to mention a few.

The band is allready working on what is to become their second release, and their first full length album. It’s not hard to see what goals the band sets for themselves

Let’s just say that the next one is more of melodic blackend death metal, should also say that the third disc should be back to atmospheric black metal. We want variety, but no matter what, everything is Nidhög.
Adrian

So lots of exhiting stuff to look out for from these guys in the future.

Anyways, the album is out on all streaming-services and also available in our store.

Nidhög presenting ‘Fjord’-cover and release-date:

September 1, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

Nidhög is presenting the cover for their debut-ep ‘Fjord’. The artcover is taken from the National museum, and is a picture of the Norwegian Geiranger Fjord, taken in 1888 By William Dobson Valentine.

Cover and back for the ep ‘Fjord’.
(Free license use Creative Commons – Attribution CC-BY)

The release-date for ‘Fjord is set to 17th of September, and the ep will be available on all streaming-services. Presales of the ep will be announced in a short while.

Presales have started on both bandcamp and our own webshop. Limited merch will also be up and running soon.

We’ve also put together a promo-video for you to check out.

The date is now set for the release of ‘Fjord’, the debut-ep from Nidhög. The Norwegian black-metalband Nidhög signed with Whispering Voice Records not too long ago, and is now ready for their release to hit the shelves. ‘Fjord’ will be released on September 17th on all streaming-services.

‘Fjord’ is produced, mixed and mastered by none other than Tom Kvålsvoll at Kvalsonic Lab.

Nidhög online

Office closed

July 15, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

We’re closing the office for 10 from 16th of july, and will be back 26th.

Perhaps not a big news to post about, but we WILL be back with bigger news when we’re back from this years summer vacation.

We have several releases coming up in the coming fall, and also a big festival that we’re sponsoring.
So we’ll take some time to recharge and hope you all have a great summer. Stay hydrated, use sunscreen and have a good time.

Have a great summer.

A new band joins our rooster

June 17, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

It’s always exciting to sign a new artist or band to our label. Kind of like a christmas eve, for a headbanger. And once again we are excited to announce that we have signed a new band, this time from the westcoast of Norway

Nidhög is a quartet consisting 4 young guys from Ålesund, a small town not particularly known for black or extreme metal. But that’s something these guys plans on changing. Despite their young age, these guys are very talented at what they do.

The band will release their debut-ep ‘Fjord’ early this fall. The ep is recorded and is now the hands of Tom at Kvalsonic Lab, and we can’t wait to release it.

*From left to right: Jens, Lukas, Henrik and Adrian*

The quartet signed with the label for the release of their debut-ep ‘Fjord’, but are allready working on material for their next release. What format that will be is yet to be determined.

What lies ahead for these guys, future will tell. We in Whispering Voice Records are excited to be the one to kickstart their career. The road to Ålesund is painted with black intentions.

The band draws inspiration from bands like Bathory, Burzum, Darkthtone, Death, Entombed and early Mayhem, but also from some underground-bands like Crypt Crawler and Taetre. So what this band has in store for their debut-album is really something to look forward too.

We will announce the release-date of ‘Fjord’ as soon as we have it. Until then we welcome Nidhög in to the Whispering Voice Records-family.

Take-downs, a never ending story…

May 30, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

Every day, every week, every month, music is taken down from people that has shared it illegally. Music that does not belong to them. Shared with just a push of some keyboard-buttons.

YouTube is a really great tool to reach listeners, and our label also publishes all our releases to YouTube. Either on our own channel or uploaded by our aggregator. Last one is known by having the band name with ‘topic’ behind it.
This gives the listeners the option to listen to our music for free. Sometimes one must endure a bit for commersials before or during the video, but this is how the artists and the labels make some of their money. It’s sometimes one of their major source of income.

How would you feel?

How would you feel if you made something and sold 1000 pcs of it, then went over to someone else just to see they’ve sold 5000 pcs of that product? How would you feel knowing they made more money out of your product, without spending a single dime making it? A product you spent a lot of time, money and effort to produce, and now someone else is cashing in on it, without having spent on dime on it. Without asking you if it’s ok. Without giving you any of the profit. Would you be ok with that?

This is called infingement of copyrights. It is selling something that you do not have the rights to sell. It is theft of someone elses property.

This is all too comon, done in broad daylight, and it’s done in large quantities. And least, but not last: it is done under the assumption that they are promoting the artist and the music, by leaving a link to the artist in the field or comments, recommending you to check them out. Or something like that. But in reality, they are not. They are making money of the artists hard worked product. They are making money of the labels promotion. Promotion labels like us use a lot of money to do.

How are they making money, you ask?

Well, we’ll have to go into YouTubes and google search’s algorithms to find that out. When we promote one of our albums, wether it’s released or upcoming, the receiver of that promotion often starts to google the band or album. And YouTube will pop up early on the search, based on subscibers and views. And with a large quantity of illegally uploaded albums in their channel, comes a large quantity of views and often subscribers.

A label like ours won’t stand a chance against a YouTube-channel that ‘promotes’ 50-500 albums. We are not yet that big, so we would be way down on that list of google search-results, ‘thus promoting our music, but on someone elses YouTube-channel, giving them the results, views and finally… the reward.

But why does YouTube allow this?

The system, time and money it would take to check all this work before it’s uploaded, with thousands of videos being uploaded to YouTube every day, YouTube wouldn’t have been what they are if they did this. It wouldn’t have been a great way for listeners to listen to the music for free, or for the artists and labels to reach out to listeners without listeners having to pay for a subscription each month. Not everyone can afford that. But YouTube have a good way of trying to fix this when the rightfull owner discovers the deed of someone illegally sharing their property.
And it’s really not that hard to discover. Not hard at all.

Monitoring

There are monitoring-systems that can be used to catch everything that is published on the internet. Some are free, like google alerts, and some costs a little. They all have the same effect; sending you a warning or message that someone’s mentioned you on the world wide web. And also provides you with a link to where you are mentioned, based on the words you would like it to monitor for you. Like YouTube for example. so, easy-peasy.

Once we get a notice like this, we of course checks it out. If it is a review, or something like that, we love to share it. But when it is our property being illagelly shared or sold by others, we react. We send a take-down request, along with legal documents that states that this is our property that someone else is selling, and that they do not have the rights to do so.

This also goes for YouTube. They have a form we fill out, to take it down. Once the form is filled out, there’s a box we can check, that asks YouTube to keep an open eye for similar uploads in the future. To monitor if someone else is trying to upload it. How well this works, we don’t know, but we do think it works rather ok, because we see less and less take-downs of music that we’ve allready taken down.

“So why has someone else uploaded your music, and why can’t I do it?”

Well, that question requires us to look at three things;
1. Has the music been published by another label or are we the first to publish it?
2. Is that channel owned by the band or one of it’s artists? Or even previous label?
3. Did they perhaps ask and get permission from us?

We do not only publish new music, but sometimes re-publish music that has been released before. And if a YouTube-‘promotuer’ has published the music before the artists signed with us, we must assume they have ask and gotten the rights to do so. Either from the previous label, or the artists themselves. Then we do not go thru the hassle of trying to take it down. Not even sure YouTube would allow us to do it, because the music was published before the agreement between our label and the artist was signed.

There DO exists some honest people, that sends us a request if it is ok for them to upload our music, before they do it. And those people are much appriciated. We try do meet them as best as we can. But when it comes to people that just uploads our music, without asking… They do not get the same treatment.

We usually give them the standard time to take the illegally shared property down. 7 days on YouTube, 21 days elsewhere. But there has been times that some channels have learned the hard way that uploading illegally gets your channel shut down immediatly. We do not of course wish to do this, so we always use 7 days on YouTube.

Don’t be a thief!

It is, like we said, very easy to find, download and share other artists music on YouTube. But it is not legal, unless you have gotten permission from the one holding the rights. That is usually the artist or the label. Sharing music you don’t have the rights for, IS stealing. No mather if you’re making money of it or not. Sharing, but not profiting also means that the artists are not profiting from their own work.

So think about that the next time you wish to “promote” others music. Or do it the right way: Create a playlist based on the allready uploaded music from the artists or labels own channel. You might still get the subscribes, but at least the owners of the music will get what is rightfully theirs.

Subscribing to our newsletter

May 13, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

There’s nothing more we would love than for news about our artists and their music to reach you. That is what we are here for, to promote our artists music.

And this year we are putting more music out there then ever before, increasing our rooster and releases. .

Two new bands are signed and will be officially publiced in the near future
Three new albums are on the release-list for now.
Several singles and also musicvideos are in the making, and will be released this year.

In other words, there’s a lot of exciting stuff going on in our label these days, and we will of course update you on all our stuff as they happen, on all our social media.

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up to some great news in your inbox too? We promise not to spam you mail. In fact, we’re going to start sending our newsletter on fridays only, to kick off your weekend with great news. And as usual, news are always first in our newsletter, then second on our social media.

So if interested, then all you have to do is to subscribe below. You can always unsubscribe if you don’t like it. Unsubscribe-link is always included in the newsletter.

Tales of the end

April 29, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

Out now

Tales of the End is the newly released debutalbum of the newly arisen black-metal band Snøstorm, which hails from the depts of Bulgaria and the mountaintops of the Norwegian landscape. The band has put together a 7-track mini-album that just hit all streamingservices and stores.

The band signed with Whispering Voice Records earlier this year.

The band is looking of course looing for interviews, press and airplay, but most of all looking for someone to review their album and give them some feedback.
If interested in interviewing the band, please get in touch and we’ll set everything up for you.

All music on the album is composed and recorded by Nikolay Velev and the vocals are written and recorded by Atle Attila Nygård. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered between 21.02 and 02.03 in Cometosin studio, Bulgaria.
Vocals recorded in Vatneli Studios, Norway

Photography cover by Hristo Peshey

Design and layout by Veliza Gordeev (Vile)

Check out the album

Snøstorm sign an agreement with WVR.

April 4, 2022 by Whispering Voice Records

We are proud to announce that the Bulgarian/Norwegian black-metal duo Snøstorm has sign with Whispering Voice Records.

The duo is planning on releasing their debut-album ‘Tales of the End’ in the 29^th of April, and has signed an agreement for this release.

The album is a cross between war-torn black metal and good old Norwegian black metal. Some of the track’s deal with the naturistic violence, like a chain reaction, and humans spreading chaos, whilst other track’s deals with the thoughts and struggling within ourselves.

The album will be released on the 29^th of April, and be available on all streaming-services. Presales will start on the 15^th of April thru the labels own store.

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Fjord – Out now

Nidhög presenting ‘Fjord’-cover and release-date:

Office closed

A new band joins our rooster

Take-downs, a never ending story…

How would you feel?

How are they making money, you ask?

But why does YouTube allow this?

Monitoring

“So why has someone else uploaded your music, and why can’t I do it?”

Don’t be a thief!

Subscribing to our newsletter

Tales of the end

Out now

Snøstorm sign an agreement with WVR.

Newsletter

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Fjord – Out now

Nidhög presenting ‘Fjord’-cover and release-date:

Office closed

A new band joins our rooster

Take-downs, a never ending story…

How would you feel?

How are they making money, you ask?

But why does YouTube allow this?

Monitoring

“So why has someone else uploaded your music, and why can’t I do it?”

Don’t be a thief!

Subscribing to our newsletter

Subscribe

Tales of the end

Out now

Snøstorm sign an agreement with WVR.

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