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Green Carnation have no record deal and no album in the works. Singer Kjetil Nordhus told Blabbermouth: “Right now, we don’t have any plans with the band except for playing live. And we don’t have a record deal anymore, because this was our last album with Season Of Mist. […] But right now, there is nothing. This might be the last thing people hear from Green Carnation, to be honest with you.”
That last album is “The Messiah Complex”, which completes “A Dark Poem”, the trilogy the Norwegian band released over twelve months: “The Shores of Melancholia” came out on 5 September 2025, “Sanguis” on 3 April this year and the third part on 4 September. The trilogy draws on Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Ophélie” and on bassist Stein Roger Sordal’s own experiences; he and Nordhus wrote it between 2018 and 2024, partly holed up in a mountain cabin, and the last piece they composed was the orchestral suite that closes the third record. On the first album, Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson handles the harsh vocals on “The Slave That You Are”.
Asked whether they’re creatively exhausted, Nordhus says yes: “Maybe especially him [Sordal].” But he leaves a door ajar: “If he and I went up to that cabin in the mountains again for a couple of days just to talk about stuff, I’m not sure, but we could come back with some kind of idea. We’ve started talking a little bit about it.”
In Kristiansand, the band’s hometown, the concert on 12 September drew fans from twenty-one countries.
Text by Roger Estivill