Týr release new single, “Mare Of My Night”

Týr - heading your way soon
Týr – heading your way soon

Valkyrja, the seventh full-length album from the Faroe Islands natives, Týr, will be released on September 16th in the UK. After having unveiled the opening track on the album, the band has launched the second track, “Mare of My Night“. Stream the song here: http://www.metalinsider.net/new-music/exclusive-song-premiere-tyr-mare-of-my-night

Vocalist/guitarist Heri Joenson comments: “‘Mare Of My Night’ was by far the most difficult song on the album to write, music wise. What I usually do is work on a basic idea, a melody with a chord progression. I make variations over the basic idea and then I pick out the best variations for the respective parts of the song, verse, chorus etc. For this one I had more variations than ever before and I made more versions of this song that I’ve ever done before, so it was very difficult to choose. I’m still not sure I made the best possible song, which is not a satisfying feeling at all. But there you have it.

As for the text, once I went to work on it, it was written in a day or two, in the evenings during studio time. I had the title and the story line long in advance. It’s based on the mare from folklore, the human-like creature that lies on top of you, riding you, causing bad dreams. As in nightmare, riding like a mare, etc. Our anonymous Viking, the protagonist of the story, finds in this song that his earthly woman has gone from being a goddess to being nightmare. It is also the most sexually explicit piece of lyric I have written so far.”

Týr will be on tour September – October with Finntroll in Europe. UK dates are below:

09/30 Norwich, UK Waterfront
10/01 Glasgow, UK Classic Grand
10/02 Manchester, UK NQ Live
10/03 Dublin, IE The Pint
10/04 Bilston, UK Robin 2
10/05 London, UK The Garage

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