‘Elden Ring’ inspired a black metal solo album from Svalbard’s Serena Cherry

Former Svalbard vocalist Serena Cherry has announced her second solo album as Noctule – and it’s inspired by Elden Ring. READ MORE: Ice Nine Kills on their “intense” ‘Dead By Daylight’ collab and why horror will never die Post-hardcore band Svalbard formed back in 2011 and released four albums, but last year they announced they would be breaking up. “We never wanted to create music that was easy to pigeonhole, and I feel proud that we always stayed true to ourselves musically and never restricted our creativity within the genre rule book,” vocalist Serena Cherry said in a statement. “The support we received over the years as a band is something that I will carry in my heart forever. It’s a testament to the open-mindedness of the metal community that our sound and our outspokenness was embraced with open arms.” During the Covid-19 lockdown Cherry wrote ‘Wretched Abyss’, a black metal solo album inspired by Skyrim and released it as Noctule. Last month, she announced a follow-up. ‘Extinguish Thy Flame’ is out September 25 and was written about Elden Ring. Lead single ‘Lord Of Blood’ was “an ode to the towering, horned demigod Mogh” and new single ‘Goddess Of Rot’ is all about Elden R...