Niflheim by Njord Skadi

This is part II of the story of Keyth Norsson (made up Viking character) who swore to have vengeance over the gods and enter Valhalla

This is a second experimental album using mainly AI tools to create the music.

This is the follow up to the album Hydra. Since this story was envisionned from the start as a 5 parts saga, I decided that I would try to bring it into life using AI tools. My no 1 choice would have been to assemble a "real" band and work on it with them, I would probably have kept the guitar and writting parts only. My growls are not great I sing Iron Maiden and Judas Priest easily but not much in the death/black vocal styles. There is also the fact that this saga would have taken years to create. Maybe that would've been the better part. But for better or worse, here it is, AI generated.

For this one, all Lyrics are written by me or co-written with AI. AI is not good on its own for lyrics. According to my taste anyway. I don't like lyrics written only by those tools, they end up being a little bit childish. I prefer to tell this story the way I intended it, from a narrative first person point of view.

Even though I am working on the other parts, and I don't think I will continue working with those tools a lot after, at least not that much. It only makes me want to grab my guitar and work with scales and chords with an instrument. At least for the guitar and song structure part. A lot of the "fun" is missed by just generating music, reviewing and mastering it. At least there are the lyrics, story and album structure which are still a human creative part.

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I've been playing guitars and singing for 35 years. Also played a bit of bass and drums. I'm still wondering where all those tools sit well in the process of "music creation". This album is the result of experimenting with AI tools.

Many friends and musicians I know told me they liked it and suggested I make it available to others so here it is. And since all music is generated, I don't charge any money for it. It's just here to enjoy!

Even though I only wrote the Lyrics, according to Suno and Midjourney licencing, I own all commercial use rights for all music and visuals.

Black Metal Experimental project