Green Carnation have finished A Dark Poem, and Kjetil Nordhus says it may be the last anyone hears from the band.
“Right now, we don't have any plans with the band except for playing live,” he told Blabbermouth. “And we don't have a record deal anymore, because this was our last album with Season Of Mist. We need an idea, and then we can start talking about whether we want to do this again. But right now, there is nothing.”
The trilogy ran across three records: The Shores of Melancholia last year, then Sanguis and The Messiah Complex this one. All the writing was finished between 2018 and 2024, which is six years of work arriving inside eighteen months, and Nordhus says what he is proudest of is that nothing was released at ninety five percent.
Asked whether the band are creatively empty, he agreed they are, and then immediately left the door open: two of them going back to the cabin in the mountains for a couple of days would probably produce an idea. They have started talking about it and have not talked about it enough.
That is not a breakup and the band have not called it one. It is a band with no label, no plans and no appetite to force a record out of nothing, which after a trilogy this size is the more honest position.