HÉR

Stream Debut Album Monochrome

A full ritual journey now available

on the Season of Mist YouTube channel

HÉR - Monochrome (Official Album Stream)

Formed in Gdańsk, northern Poland, HÉR present Monochrome, their debut full-length album for Season of Mist, now streaming in its entirety on the label’s official YouTube channel.

Listen to Monochrome: https://youtu.be/A8vhZDZQPpc

Rooted in Old Norse wisdom poetry and shaped by a collective sense of ritual, the record invites listeners to step into a space of presence and communion, where music functions as both invocation and reflection.

Monochrome unfolds across seven compositions that balance restraint and intensity. Throat singing, bowed strings, percussion, and subtle electronics intertwine to form a sound that feels both ancient and immediate. Experienced as a continuous listening journey, the album opens with the meditative expanse of “Chant,” before moving through the patience and introspection of “Patience in Observation,” the grounded momentum of “Going Down,” and the fervent, almost hymn-like force of “Praise the Day.”

Recorded at Monochrom Studio with producer Ignacy Gruszecki and mixed and mastered by Marcin Bors at Fonoplastykon, Monochrome prioritizes clarity and physical presence. Guest vocals from Magdalena Kuraś “Freya” add a contrasting timbre, while artwork by Mary Zaleska mirrors the album’s elemental atmosphere. Drawing from both Slavic melodic traditions and Scandinavian sonic landscapes, the album explores enduring dualities of fire and frost, calm and force, individuality and collective experience.

Monochrome is out tomorrow, January 30, 2026 via Season of Mist.

Pre-order & pre-save: https://orcd.co/hermonochrome

Praise for Monochrome:

“Silence and power, light and shadow are wrapped in a highly unusual atmosphere.” — Maxazine

“An album that is extremely sincere,   honest, and deeply necessary in today’s hurried, noisy world.” — Między Uchem A Mózgiem

“A musical work that becomes meditation, rooted in the earth and reaching toward the mysteries of the infinite cosmos.” — Metalhead

“Hér’s music does not seek to resurrect the past, but to erase our temporal reference points entirely.” — VerdamMnis

“Moving freely between free jazz, folk, and Nordic ritual atmospheres, Hér never lose coherence or emotional impact.” — Metal Epidemic

Tracklist:
1. Chant (10:47)
2. Needles and Bark (4:57)
3. Going Down (4:19)
4. Patience in Observation (3:02)
5. Slipknot (6:24)
6. Praise the Day (6:08)
7. Farewell (6:32)
Full runtime: 42:11

Country: Poland (PL)
Genre: Nordic Fusion/Jazz/Contemporary
FFO: Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Bohren & der Club of Gore

Photo by © Daria Szczygieł

“Hér” in Icelandic means „here”. It is a very clear calling from the band to the audience: be here, experience, be inspired, it is happening now, and it is the essence of participating in our artistic expression. The bad was formed in Gdańsk, northern Poland. Five independent, strong musical personalities met “here”—in a specific place and time—to create communitas that are both unique and harmonious.

The music they propose carries the listener to 11th-century Old Norse wisdom poetry. The first inspiration for this artistic meeting were the poems of the Poetic Edda. Hér reveals wild, root-like, undiscovered musical spaces, the clash of worlds, and a glimpse of the otherworld. It uses raw means of expression and sounds, as raw as the North itself: trembling throat singing, increasing trance-like rhythm, gliding over the violin strings like over an ice surface. We start here: Iceland, the beginning of Europe. It is a musical meditation on a place, growing out of specific soil, reaching to the roots of Norse mythology but not stopping there. It is not only the wisdom of the Vikings, Odin’s recommendations for those who stand at the gates of Valhalla. The threshold of the otherworld leads further to universal, human, fundamental experiences.

By exploring the human nature described in Norse mythology, the musicians make a deep insight into the emotions embedded in its verses. They bring out the dark beauty of the North and its extremes: fire and ice, violence and tenderness, bravery and care, the brutality of war and the solace that peace brings, struggle and feast, the milky sweetness of honey and the salty tang of blood, love and hatred, birth and death, beginning and end, terror and awe…

Sestu hérna, sit here… sit here and listen, sit here and grow, sit here and drift away.

Tracklist:
1. Chant (10:47)
2. Needles and Bark (4:57)
3. Going Down (4:19)
4. Patience in Observation (3:02)
5. Slipknot (6:24)
6. Praise the Day (6:08)
7. Farewell (6:32)
Full runtime: 42:11

Line-up:
Maciej Świniarski — Vocal, Percussion
Tomasz Chyła — Vocal, Violin, Synth Percussion
Piotr Chęcki — Saxophone, Percussion
Tomasz Sadecki — Bass Guitar, Synth, Percussion
Sławek Koryzno — Drums, Percussion

Production Credits:
Recorded at Monochrom Studio, Gniewoszów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
Produced & Engineered by Ignacy Gruszecki.
Mixed & Mastered by Marcin Bors at Fonoplastykon, Wrocław, Poland.

Guest Musicians:
Magdalena Kuraś „Freya”

Cover Art:
Mary Zaleska

Photography:
Daria Szczygieł (https://dariaszczygiel.com/)

Pre-save & Pre-order: https://orcd.co/hermonochrome



Follow HÉR:

Bandcamp: https://hersom.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herbandofficialprofile/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/her.bandofficial/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4yHViIb0eCl4eVMFcVnzm5
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/h%C3%A9r/1751778615


Available Formats:
Digital Download
CD Digipak
12” Vinyl Gatefold — Black
12" Coloured Vinyl Gatefold — Transparent Orange