SEIGMEN – celebrates the 30 year anniversary of their platinum album success “Metropolis” with the release of “Dissonans”!
- Posted on 25-10-2025
Photo: Tom Lund
The release date for Seigmen’s new album Dissonans on October 23 is no coincidence. The record marks a new chapter in a story where everything connects. Most notably, Dissonans is the second installment in a planned trilogy, following last year’s critically acclaimed and Norwegian Grammy-nominated Resonans.
The release also coincides exactly with the 30th anniversary of Seigmen’s breakthrough album Metropolis, which hit record stores on the same date in 1995. More subtly, several tracks on Dissonans draw inspiration from the band’s earliest years, when their music was sharper and more abrasive. Another circle completes itself.
Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/dissonans
Dissonans is Seigmen’s second album in just over a year, which is remarkable in itself considering that before Resonans, the band had released only one studio album in 26 years, and that was nine years earlier. But again, this timing is no accident. Nor is it coincidental that a third and final album in the trilogy is planned to follow. The idea is that, in the end, the three albums can be experienced as a whole, created in parallel and tied together by a shared origin and a larger narrative.
Today on October 23, 2025, Seigmen present chapter two of that story.
The first thing that stands out about Dissonans is its artwork. Where previous Seigmen albums have favored symmetry and minimalism, Dissonans offers something rawer, almost a stripped-down punk aesthetic. True to its title, not everything is as expected. Seigmen’s loyal followers will still recognize the band’s signature atmosphere, but they will also hear an unfamiliar playfulness, a willingness to break conventions and to let the songs evolve naturally, wherever that leads. And not least, the tempo has been turned up a notch or two.
The album opens with “Dyret (23 bud),” which also served as the first single. The track begins majestically with Espen Winther (Eldrim / Folket Bortafor Nordavinden) performing on his self-made string instrument, Gnaal. The song delivers, by Seigmen standards, a crystal-clear message: to recognize one’s own unique worth and to resist being shaped by others’ expectations. It can be read as a message to their younger selves back in the rehearsal room 35 years ago, but it has also resonated strongly with many listeners today.
The second single, “Disiplin,” raises the energy level considerably, driven by a drum riff that had been waiting in the drawer since 1990. Direct and uncompromising, it culminates in a cathartic chorus built around the line “for det som betyr noe for meg” (“what matters to me”), a phrase that lingers long after the song ends.
“Rosemalt” carries a darker emotional weight. Photographer par excellence Bjørn Opsahl had a long and personal relationship with Seigmen, both as the band’s “court photographer” and as a close friend. When Opsahl passed away earlier this year (2025), Rosemalt became, in a way, a tribute to him. He had often contributed ideas for Seigmen’s visuals and once suggested using traditional Norwegian rosemaling (decorative painting) as artwork for an upcoming release. The idea was tested but never used, and instead a song bearing that title appeared, its lyrics personal and haunting, written before anyone knew what was to come.
The final single before the album release is “Så Nært,” a song that ventures into new and unexpected territory. Airy and full of life, it features Alex Møklebust in a more intimate and expressive vocal performance than usual. The monotony of the verses gives way to a soaring refrain, a release, a breath, and yes, a true ballad.
Together with six other songs, these tracks make up Dissonans, an album from a band that has somehow rediscovered a fresh spark of energy, creativity, and joy in playing, decades after being one of Norway’s leading rock acts.
Fittingly, the release of Dissonans also marks the 30th anniversary of Seigmen’s platinum-selling breakthrough Metropolis.
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