Green Carnation from Kristiansand, Norway, was founded as early as 1990. After founding member Tchort joined legends-to-be Emperor and continued in Satyricon and Einherjer, the band was laid to rest until their debut album ‘A Journey To The End Of The Night’ came out in 2000. Following a period with line-up changes, 2001 marked the release of the bands epic Light of Day, Day of Darkness.  


With their albums A Blessing in Disguise (2003) and The Quiet Offspring (2005), Green Carnation shifted towards a more rock orientated style, before they surprised everyone with the stripped-down record Acoustic Verses in 2006. What followed in the same year is perhaps one of the most spectacular DVD recordings metal history. The band played a show in the mountains, under a 30-meter-high dam. Only a year later, Green Carnation disbanded.  


After playing their first reunion show in 2016 and a few more in the following years, the musicians decided it was time to write new material. At the end of 2019, Green Carnation entered the studio with producer Endre Kirkesola (Abbath, In Vain and Solefald), to record Leaves of Yesteryear.  


The album is partially a retrospect on the band’s career, as the progressive metal act pays homage to their past and to their heroes with the re-recording of the classic song “My Dark Reflections of Life and Death” and the Black Sabbath-cover “Solitude”. With new songs such as “Leaves of Yesteryear”, the fans will get a taste of what is to come.


A Dark Poem is Green Carnation’s long awaited monumental three-album concept album, which musically and lyrically will take the listener to the highest tops and darkest inner rooms in the world of the ever-evolving Norwegian progressive cult act. The first chapter, The Shores of Melancholia comes out September 5 on Season of Mist. “In Your  Paradise” is the album’s first single. Another track on the album features Enslaved’s Grutle Kjellson.


Green Carnation will perform all of The Shores of Melancholia during an exclusive set at this year’s Prog Power USA.