Nightmare Omen have put out Moonlight Funeral, the fourth and last of the singles they planned for this year.
It is also the oldest thing they have. Johan Lindstrand says the song dates to early 2025, when he picked up a guitar for the first time in fifteen years and started writing away from The Crown, where he has sung since the early nineties. Four songs went out in sequence instead of an album, which he describes as introducing the band step by step rather than arriving with a record nobody asked for.
The plan for 2027 is the full length. Nothing is recorded yet and no label has been named, which for a band this new is honest rather than coy.
The other three came out across this year: The Serpent's Kiss, Final Breath and Killstrike. What they play is the death and thrash Lindstrand has always played, slower in places than The Crown and heavier on the melody, with Christer Bergqvist and Peter Söderberg on guitars, Robert Axelsson on bass and Jonas Blom behind the kit.
Metal Archives has them in Uddevalla, outside Gothenburg, formed in 2025 and still unsigned.