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 | Livestream festival
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
SLAY HOME SLAY SAFE
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!

“A Copenhell replacement”
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.
Interview radio feature
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 | Livestream concert
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
CANCELLED – Xaon | Sunless Dawn | Ethereal Kingdoms | Lamentari
ETHEREAL KINGDOMS LIVE AT FORBRÆNDINGEN
9th of October 2020
By HEAVYMETAL.DK and FORBRÆNDINGEN
Vognporten 11
2620 Albertslund
Lineup
XAON (CH)
SUNLESS DAWN (DK)
ETHEREAL KINGDOMS (DK)
LAMENTARI (DK)
Doors: 18.00
Swiss progressive death metal mastodons XAON return to Denmark for a night of wonder, magic and complexity at FORBRÆNDINGEN in Albertslund, Copenhagen.
In the company of WACKEN METAL BATTLE DENMARK 2015 winners SUNLESS DAWN, we bring our finest songs to this show.
We will also have a special collaboration between Sunless Dawn and Ethereal Kingdoms at this performance.
New symphonic black metal band LAMENTARI joins this show, unleashing their critically acclaimed debut EP f live this night.

XAON’s 2019 album SOLIPSIS made it onto our “Sounds of the Kingdoms” Spotify playlist, a handpicked selection of songs that inspire, delight and fascinate us. Vocalist Sofia especially is a big fan of this band.
CANCELLED – Næstved Metalfest
Ethereal Kingdoms live at NÆSTVED METALFEST
September 4th & 5th
Næstved Metalfest – KONGEBRYG
Kasernevej 21, 4700 Næstved , Denmark
With BAEST, WAYWARD DAWN, PECTORA, DAWN OF DEMISE, HATESPHERE, WITHERING SURFACE, BLACK SWAMP WATER, PITCHBLACK, LAMENTARI, ALTERFACT, CHRONICLE, ROT AWAY, MURDER AMONG KINGS
Doors: 14:00
Concert: 15:30


For our first show ever in NÆSTVED, we enter NÆSTVED METALFEST. Arranged by MIGHTY MUSIC, we are in the grand company of legendary BAEST, HATESPHERE, WITHERING SURFACE, DAWN OF DEMISE, WAYWARD DAWN and more!
The venue KONGEBRYG will set a raw and intense frame around our stories, which we will unleash in an unbridled and furious format at an open air experience.
Our vocalist SOFIA SCHMIDT spend her teenage years creating music and culture in the city of NÆSTVED, and have spent many after-school hours at co-sponsor NÆSTVED UNGDOMSSKOLE, so it will be an evening with a nostalgic return.
She and drummer JON ELMQUIST played their first ever open-air festival show at the ROCK PÅ MUNKEN 2 event and SKULL SMASH FESTIVAL back in the early 2010’s with their now-defunct melodeath project BLAZE OF BARBAROID.
NÆSTVED METALFEST
Press statement in Danish 🇩🇰
I 2019 slog Næstved Metalfest for første gang dørene op til den største og tungeste metalfestival syd for København. Allerede 14 dage før selve festivalen, kunne vi melde alt udsolgt!
Til august gør vi det igen, bare endnu større!
I stedet for én dag, tager vi to dage i brug og dermed lukker vi også op for dobbelt så mange gæster som sidste år. D. 28 & 29 august 2020 går det løs, denne gang med endnu flere bands.
JIMMY NIELSEN medarrangør, udtaler:
“Jeg kan simpelthen ikke vente med at præsentere den endelige plakat for Næstved Metalfest 2020. Jeg synes selv vi har samlet nogle enormt fede bands til denne festival som favner bredt, rent musikalsk og at vi allerede i år kigger ud over landegrænsen. Både Michael (H. Andersen) og jeg er helt på røven over den enorme opbakning og modtagelse der har været af vores lille hjertebarn. Den havde vi ikke helt set komme, men det viser bare at metaltrætheden har trænge kår, når det kommer til musikgenren og at dansk metalmusik er i voldsom vækst. Nu håber vi bare at det smitter af på scenen i Næstved, så næste generation af bangers kan steppe op og vise kronen & nøglerne”.
Næstved Metalfest 2020 finder sted D. 28 & 29 august 2020 på Kongebryg. Der er lagt i ovnen til en stor oplevelse i det Sydsjællandske med de rustikke faciliteter hos det populære lokale bryggeri og spillested. Der vil således både være brygget specielt øl til lejligheden og være et stort udbud af boder med mad, drikke og merchandise.
Der arrangeres bustur fra København til Næstved Metalfest i samarbejde med Club Dark. Den oplagte mulighed for få en på opleveren uden for Hovedstaden. Bustur t/r fra Zeppelin Rock Bar på Vesterbro Torv til et af Danmarks bedste bryggerier med metalkoncerter oveni hatten, alt sammen i de smukke omgivelserne omkring den gamle Gardehusar kaserne.
SOLD OUT – Ethereal Kingdoms live at Udlejre Church
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

Description
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.
SETLIST
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
Links
Facebook event
Egedal lokalavis
Egedal lokalavis 2
Vores Egedal
Tornvang Open Air 2020
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 | CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
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:
Featuring Sigurbodi Gretarson on hurdy gurdy and the sound of Sofia Schmidt’s 10-string Kantele

Hollow Mirror acoustic release event
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
Setlist
Silent dance
My Kantele – Amorphis cover
Embrace me
Heartchamber

Copenhagen Metal Fest 2019
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
Setlist
Ashes within
Distance
Beginnings
Breathe again
My Kantele – Amorphis cover
Heartchamber
Apparition
Endings



Portrait by Anders Groos Mikkelsen of Metal A Day
Seven Thorns support
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.
Wintersun 15th anniversary support
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.
Live Setlist
Act I
- Ashes within
- Beginnings
- With Amalie Skriver (violin/vocals)
- With Amalie Skriver (violin/vocals)
- Silent dance
- With The Kingdom Choir
Act II
- Embrace me
- With Sigurbodi (Vocals/hurdygurdy), Amalie Skriver (violin/vocals) The Kingdom Choir
- With Sigurbodi (Vocals/hurdygurdy), Amalie Skriver (violin/vocals) The Kingdom Choir
- My Kantele
- Amorphis cover with Amalie Skriver (vocals), Sigurbodi (vocals, hurdy-gurdy), The Kingdom Choir
Act III
- Heartchamber
- With Amalie Skriver (vocals)
- With Amalie Skriver (vocals)
- Apparition
- With Sigurbodi (vocals)
- With Sigurbodi (vocals)
- Endings
- With The Kingdom Choir
“With each step I take, you bleed” Sofia Schmidt with a torn our heart at Wintersun 15th Anniversary support. Portrait by Jannie Ravn // blastbeast.dk Ethereal Kingdoms live at Wintersun’s 15th anniversary show Portrait by Skoett Photography “_” Sofia Schmidt and Christian Rasmussen at Ethereal Kingdoms special show supporting Wintersun 15th Anniversary performance in Denmark. Portrait by
Aalborg Rock&Metal festival 2019

6th of June 2019, Studenterhuset, Aalborg
With live sneak peeks of Hollow Mirror, video backdrops and special effects.
Nordic Noise Festival 2019
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



Royal Metal Fest 2019 – Special show
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
Portrait by Jakob Dinesen // Devilution Potrait by Johnny Fravn // Metaltone.dk The Kingdom Choir – Frozen screams and exalted voices. Royal Metal Fest 2019 Portrait by Johnny Fravn of Metaltone.dk Potrait by Johnny Fravn // Metaltone.dk Potrait by Johnny Fravn // Metaltone.dk Sofia Schmidt in the stage light setting created by Martin Rasmussen. Royal Metal Fest 2019 Potrait by Johnny Fravn // Metaltone.dk Portraits by Johnny Fravn // Metaltone, Jakob Dinesen // Devilution Portrait by Jakob Dinesen // Devilution Portrait by Jakob Dinesen // Devilution
Finntroll support
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 Vildmark Studios Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Peter Hesselø Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Gaia Micatovich “Hope is an illusion we feed ourselves” Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Sofia Schmidt on the stage of Gimle at Finntroll support show 2018 Portrait by Gaia Micatovich
Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof “The beginning takes a thousand shapes” Ethereal Kingdoms with special guest Amalie Skriver live at Gimle Portrait by outstanding Mathilde Maria Photography Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Skoett Photography Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof Portrait by Mathilde Maria Rønshof
Dirty Days of Summer festival 2018
11th of August 2019, Beta2300, Copenhagen
With Forever Still and We Are The Catalyst
Wacken Metal Battle Denmark – Finals
26th of May 2018, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen
With Xenoblight, Genfaerd and Pudsige Herrer
★★★★☆ “ A theatrical kind of metal opera” – Metal A Day

Happy faces at Wacken Metal Battle Denmark 2018

SPOT METAL//TRAIN
10th of May 2018, TRAIN, Aarhus
SPOT Festival showcase in collaboration with MONO GOES METAL
With MØL, Slægt, Children, Unseen Faith and Konvent

Wacken Metal Battle Denmark – Århus semifinals
5th of May 2018, Atlas, Århus
Introductory round winners.
With Benath the Silence, Xenoblight and Pudsige Herrer
Anubis Gate support
28th of Maj 2018, Posten, Odense
Supporting Anubis Gate with Dead Witch
Wacken Metal Battle Denmark – Slagelse
26th of April 2018, Badeanstalten, Slagelse
With Genfærd, Deadflesh and Hadron
Blastbeast’s The New Sh*t showcase pt V – Århus
20. Januar 2018, Atlas, Århus
With HIRAKI, Morild, Wölfblood and Heathe.
Blastbeast’s The New Sh*t Showcase pt V. – Copenhagen
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.