Iotunn Drop Single “I Feel The Night”, Announce New Album Kinship

Progressive metal band Iotunn recently announced that their sophomore album Kinship will be released on October 25 via Metal Blade. In conjunction with that announcement, they dropped the album’s first single, “I Feel The Night”.

The newly revealed album is the band’s follow up to 2021’s Access All Worlds. Speaking of the album’s creation, guitarist Jesper Gräs said it was the “most extensive and wild journey” the band had ever partaken until that point.

“Like trekking up the Galdhøpiggen mountain in Norway, we have crossed peak after peak and seen things continuously brighter and wider until we reached the top, the end. Never have we been prouder and more pleased, and we hope our fans – old and new – will take this album into their hearts and let it unfold from there.”

I don’t think very many people outside of Norway will get that reference, but we don’t really need to know it to understand that it’s seen as a monumental task. Speaking of the song itself, Gräs said “I Feel The Night” was crafted to feel like a big, anthemic kind of thing for the band.

“‘I Feel The Night’ is the result of many years searching for a certain kind of song. Big lyrical and musical storylines of songs such as ‘Stairway To Heaven,’ ‘Child In Time,’ and ‘Fade To Black’ – to mention a few – have been at the core of inspiration for Iotunn and we searched to make our song full of dynamics, feelings, and huge storytelling. This is ‘I Feel The Night.’ Lots of atmosphere and lots of heaviness.”

Kinship will be released on October 25, but you can preorder your copy today.

Kinship Track Listing:
01. Kinship Elegiac
02. Mistland
03. Twilight
04. I Feel the Night
05. The Coming End
06. Iridescent Way
07. Earth to Sky
08. The Anguished Ethereal