{"id":737783,"date":"2026-08-14T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:20:08","slug":"elden-ring-inspired-a-black-metal-solo-album-from-svalbards-serena-cherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737783\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elden Ring\u2019 inspired a black metal solo album from Svalbard\u2019s Serena Cherry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Svalbard vocalist Serena Cherry has announced her second solo album as Noctule \u2013 and it\u2019s inspired by Elden Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Post-hardcore band Svalbard formed back in 2011 and released four albums, but last year they announced they would be breaking up<\/a>. \u201cWe 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,\u201d vocalist Serena Cherry said in a statement. \u201cThe support we received over the years as a band is something that I will carry in my heart forever. It\u2019s a testament to the open-mindedness of the metal community that our sound and our outspokenness was embraced with open arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Covid-19 lockdown Cherry wrote \u2018Wretched Abyss\u2019, a black metal solo album inspired by Skyrim<\/a> and released it as Noctule. Last month, she announced a follow-up. \u2018Extinguish Thy Flame\u2019 is out September 25 and was written about Elden Ring.<\/p>\n

Lead single \u2018Lord Of Blood\u2019 was \u201can ode to the towering, horned demigod Mogh\u201d and new single \u2018Goddess Of Rot\u2019 is all about Elden Ring boss Malenia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the fight to protect those you love, you can get destroyed beyond recognition. When love morphs into sacrifice that leads to inevitable loss. This is what my new song \u2018Goddess of Rot\u2019 is about \u2013 but specifically, it is about Malenia,\u201d Cherry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalenia is one of the bleakest characters in the harsh game of Elden Ring. So of course, she is my favourite. She is fighting to protect her brother Miquella while slowly losing herself to Scarlet Rot. I deeply connected with her tragic story, so I wrote a song about Malenia to encapsulate the abandonment she suffers but also pay sonic tribute to the devastating power of her Scarlet Rot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the unforgiving world of Elden Ring and the harsh sounds of extreme metal belong together,\u201d she continued. \u201cMetal is intense, relentless and uncompromising \u2013 so is Elden Ring. Writing a metal album about Elden Ring couldn\u2019t be more fitting in my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other news, Matthew McConaughey<\/a>\u00a0has revealed that he was approached about starring<\/a> in HBO\u2019s\u00a0The Last Of Us<\/a> TV adaptation as Joel \u2013 but turned the role down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Svalbard vocalist Serena Cherry has announced her second solo album as Noctule \u2013 and it\u2019s inspired by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,5204,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}