KING OF ASGARD took form in
2008 by founder Karl Beckman. Teaming up with long time fellow worker, Karsten
Larsson, once together in the
well known viking horde Mithotyn. Now re-entering their roots, the foundation of
KING OF ASGARD was a fact. Both musically as well as in the Norse
heritage used as lyrical approach.
In January 2009 the first recording was done. Resulting in the demo "Prince of
Märings", a seven track disc recorded in Lotang studio. In November the same
year, Jonas Albrektsson (ex-Thy Primordial) joined KING OF ASGARD. The three
piece now took serious form, meanwhile the demo recording was well received and
caught the interest of Metal Blade Records. In December of 2009 KING OF ASGARD
inked a deal with
METAL BLADE
RECORDS!
Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden were booked and in March 2010 the debut
album was recorded together with engineer Andy LaRocque. KING OF ASGARD nailed
down thirteen songs of folk based blackened death metal reminding of times of
old. During the summer a video was
shot for the album opener "Einhärjar", produced by Rickard Moneus from the
production company 1897 (www.1897.se).
KING OF ASGARD´s debut album "Fi'mbulvintr" was released in August of 2010 and
made an astonishing impact on the scene. Still, the band was in need of a second
guitarist for future live events and after all Lars Tängmark was hired for the
job in August of 2010. KING OF ASGARD finally started being active as a live
performing act and played a bunch of successful festivals and club shows during
2010 and 2011.
In early 2012 KING OF ASGARD finished the songwriting for their second album and
returned to Sonic Train
Studios in April, again with Andy LaRocque at the helm, to record ”...To
North”. Another video will be shot in May, yet again with producer Rickard
Moneus.