Bissesvinet^DK

Bissesvinet is a musical collision between Bisse and the experimental trio SVIN – a project neither could have created on their own. Born from a desire to let go of control and open up to something more intuitive, more extreme, more unholy, they came together to make the album Blodager and perform as a cult-like unit clad in brightly coloured vestments – middle-aged men pledging allegiance to the crooked and the spiritual in equal measure.

The music moves elastically between jazz, noise and heavy metal – shaped by SVIN’s freeform compositions and Bisse’s forceful lyrical visions. The songs draw on religious imagery, biblical quotations and apocalyptic visions. Both Politiken and Gaffa gave the project four-star reviews, calling it “a musical tornado” and “an invasive pest in the orderly garden of genre”. Yes, that is praise.

Bisse and SVIN have both played the festival in earlier incarnations, but with Bissesvinet they’ve created a space where their differences dissolve, opening up a new way of making music – a kind of avant-garde sermon with room for both noise and spirit.

Live, it all unfolds as a performance closer to a ritual than a concert. There are no standard verses or choruses here – just musical interventions that bleed in and out of each other. It’s theatrical, intense and unpredictable – and it leaves a mark.