The theatrical metal experience
MIGHTY MUSIC PRESENTS: ETHEREAL KINGDOMS + WAYWARD DAWN + CHRONICLE
Venue: Byhaven, Pumpehuset
Date:
Price: FREE
Due to COVID-19 guidelines from the Danish Governement, this will be a seated concert. 250 seats available.
Slay Home – Slay Safe
2-day streaming festival
June 19th and June 20th 2020
With HateSphere, MØL, Artillery, Solbrud, Cabal, Lamentari, Orm
Live from Forbrændingen, Albertslund
Join us for a free streaming event during the Copenhell weekend
Arranged by the editors of Metalized and Heavymetal.dk, a hard-hitting lineup of danish only bands is brought straight to your living room.
Tune in via Twitch TV:
https://www.twitch.tv/slayhomeslaysafe
Slay Home Slay Safe is not our first livestream event. We created a show with Gixter.dk straight from our rehearsal room on may 1st.
We will also return to Forbrændingen with Xaon, Sunless Dawn and Lamentari in October 2020 for our postponed concert.
Our last show before the lockdown was our concert at Udlejre Kirke. A sold-out special musical experience with organ, choir and flute soloists, created in collaboration with Lukas Rostgaard Hartvig of The Danish National School of Performing Arts.
We won’t bring a church organ to this show (even though we would if we could!). Instead, our unbridled intensity and pent-up energy from the covid-19 lockdown will be unleashed straight into your living rooms with this festival!
The culture pages of the mainstream print media has picked up on this news as well. POLITIKEN featured SHSS in their culture section iByen as a “Copenhell replacement” event.
Renowned GAFFA has also mentioned this arrangement, sharing the arrangers’ wish to give something back to the metal community in the wake of numerous cancellations due to Covid-19.
DEN TUNGE RADIO spoke with SOFIA right after the show at Forbrændingen in the backstage lounge.
Journalist KASPER BEHRENDT talked with our lead vocal about how it feels to play a livestream show, the visual aspects of our performance and how to manage life as an artist in general during a pandemic.
Gixter Online Festival
19.00-19.30
Livestream from our rehearsal room
Event
You are invited to join us in our rehearsal room for our very first live streamed performance, brought to you by Gixter
Enjoy a raw, personal and up-close experience of our theatrical metal universe, May 1st at 19:00 GMT+1
A personal and different version of our symphonic metal universe.
The show is free, and signed copies of our Hollow Mirror debut album on Vinyl and CD will be available, as well as a small raffle in the comments section.
Tune in on our facebook livestream
Friday May 1st 2020 at 19:00 GMT+1
Ethereal Kingdoms live at Udlejre church
February 21st 2002
Udlejre Kirke
Ørnebjergvej 7, 3560 Ølstykke, Copenhagen
Doors 19.00
Concert: 20.00
Reception with wine after the show
Free admissionLimited seats, please reserve your ticket here
SOLD OUT
Ethereal Kingdoms presents a musical total experience in Udlejre Church
The critically acclaimed band experiments in the intersection between classical, metal and theatre concert in an intense, contrasting and emotional show, featuring the church’s beautiful organ.
The stories are brought to live exclusively by The Kingdom Choir, the church’s organ and special guest soloists in concord and contrast with roaring drums, elegant guitar lines and Sofia Schmidt’s characteristic soprano notes and low growls
The concert program consists of works from the critically acclaimed debut album Hollow Mirror (Mighty Music 2019) and two new pieces of music composed specifically for this concert experience.
Surrender. Let yourself be surprised, overwhelmed and full of wonder when Ethereal Kingdoms opens the doors to their beautiful and strange universe.
ACT I
01. Hollow light
New composition for organ and vocal ensemble
with organist Karsten Kristensen and The Kingdom Choir
02. Distance
ACT II
03. Ashes within
With flute soloist Lærke Krarup, Karsten Kristensen and The Kingdom Choir
04. Silent dance
with flute soloist Lærke Krarup and The Kingdom Choir
ACT III
05. My Kantele – Amorphis cover
With flute soloist Lærke Krarup, Karsten Kristensen and The Kingdom Choir
06. Lumisade
New composition for bouzouki, frame drum, electric bass and vocals for this concert
07. Heartchamber – semi-acoustic version
with flute soloist Lærke Krarup, Christian Haystack Rasmussen on Bouzuki and Jon Elmquist on frame drum.
08. Quando Corpus Morietur & Amen
12th movement from G. B. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Soprano: Sofia Schmidt
Contratenor: Darnell Boddie
Organist: Karsten & Simone Kristensen
as well as the Ethereal Kingdoms metal ensemble for the “Amen” passage
09. Hollow light – reprise
with organist Karsten Kristensen
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Tornvang open air 2020
Ethereal Kingdoms live at TORNVANG OPEN AIR
August 21st/22nd 2020
Tornvang Open Air festival
Lunkærvej 1, 8500 Gjerrild, Århus, Denmark
With Shadowspawn, Anoxia, Demolixer, Archangel, Herezy and more TBA
Doors: TBA
Concert: TBA
TICKETS
250,- DKKR|Billetten.dk
https://www.facebook.com/events/421814431807659/
We unleash our universe at our very first open air performance.
Tornvang festival writes:
“The band creates grandiose and pompous metal with a taste for the melodic, but at the same time balancing a harder and more direct edge.
The band released the album “HOLLOW MIRROR” via MIGHTY MUSIC. The album received good reviews and Ethereal Kingdoms will without a doubt give the audience or TORNVANG a taste of how the songs work live as well.
If you add their highly original and almost theatrical stage performance, you can definitely expect a memorable experience at the festival, when the band enters the stage!”
Explore our upcoming shows or read about others’ experience in our live review section.
Udgårdsfest 2020 – Denmark’s finest viking/pagan metal festival
21st/22nd of August 2020, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen
Early bird tickets available now:
https://bit.ly/2saPYnw
In the grand company of Unleashed, Varang Nord, Heidra, Einherjer and more to be announced.
Ethereal Kingdoms return to Pumpehuset in 2020
A very special night for us, as this was the venue we played our very first show and the Wacken Metal Battle Denmark 2018 Finals.
In celebration, we bring special surprises for this show!
You will experience the songs from Hollow Mirror with a uniquely scandinavian and nordic twist as we celebrate our roots at Udgårdsfest 2020.
Tickets are on sale now.
Get in the pagan mood with our cover of Amorphis’ My Kantele:
11th of October 2019, Zeppelin Rock Bar, Copenhagen
A unique acoustic show featuring The Kingdom Choir, flute soloist Lærke Krarup and viola soloist Hansi Andersen in a special acoustic Hollow Mirror album release celebration event.
Metal A Day live report
Silent dance
My Kantele – Amorphis cover
Embrace me
Heartchamber
Saturday the 21st of September, 19.45, Teater ZeBu, Denmark
★★★★☆ – “A show of the grandiose kind” – Metal A Day
“Impressive as always” – Devilution
“Deep growls, beautiful singing and screams in the same song” – Metaltone
Ashes within
Distance
Beginnings
Breathe again
My Kantele – Amorphis cover
Heartchamber
Apparition
Endings
Portrait by Anders Groos Mikkelsen of Metal A Day
31st of August 2019, BETA2300, Copenhagen
Supporting Mighty Music label mates Seven Thorns
Special premiere of unreleased track ‘Breathe again’ and Hollow Mirror exclusive presale.
30th of August 2019, Gimle, Roskilde
Wintersun live 15th Anniversary special show (first show ever in Denmark) with Seven Thorns and Faanefjell
Theatrical special show featuring The Kingdom Choir, Sigurbodi Gretarsson and Amalie Skriver, with special effects, lights and custom video backdrops.
Act I
Act II
Act III
6th of June 2019, Studenterhuset, Aalborg
With live sneak peeks of Hollow Mirror, video backdrops and special effects.
11th of May 2019, Amager Bio, Copenhagen
Theatrical special show featuring Amalie Skriver and The Kingdom Choir
★★★★☆☆ – “Ambitions are sky high” – GAFFA
★★★★★★★★☆☆ – “This band has a story to tell” – Powerofmetal.dk
April 6th 2019, Radar, Århus
Special theatrical show featuring dancers, special effects, The Kingdom Choir and video projections.
Backed by DMF, DAF and Metal Royale special grant for creating an extraordinary show for the festival.
★★★★★★★★★☆ – “I witnessed something unique” – Heavymetal.dk
★★★★☆ – “Death, love and ghosts” – Metaltone.dk
★★★★☆ – “Refreshingly ambitious” – Revolution-inc.dk
Metal Royale Interview about show concept and performance before the show
September 21st 2018, Gimle, Roskilde
Finntroll support show with special guest Amalie Skriver
★★★★☆ – “You could risk getting pieces of a violin, which was shattered on stage, in the face, which only underlines the attention to detail in this orchestra ” – Metal A Day
“New pages in the history of the genre” – Heavymetal.it
Portrait by Gaia Micatovich
11th of August 2019, Beta2300, Copenhagen
With Forever Still and We Are The Catalyst
26th of May 2018, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen
With Xenoblight, Genfaerd and Pudsige Herrer
★★★★☆ “ A theatrical kind of metal opera” – Metal A Day
10th of May 2018, TRAIN, Aarhus
SPOT Festival showcase in collaboration with MONO GOES METAL
With MØL, Slægt, Children, Unseen Faith and Konvent
5th of May 2018, Atlas, Århus
Introductory round winners.
With Benath the Silence, Xenoblight and Pudsige Herrer
28th of Maj 2018, Posten, Odense
Supporting Anubis Gate with Dead Witch
26th of April 2018, Badeanstalten, Slagelse
With Genfærd, Deadflesh and Hadron
20. Januar 2018, Atlas, Århus
With HIRAKI, Morild, Wölfblood and Heathe.
6th of January 2019, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen
★★★★★★★☆☆☆ – “Ethereal Kingdoms play through their debut concert with a great attitude that never gets too dramatic for the setup to follow through” – Rockfreaks.net
With HIRAKI, Daze of June, Wölfblood, Heathe and Morild.