Morten Veland (Sirenia, Mortemia and founder of Tristania) has released the eighth Mortemia song from The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions. The track features Erica Ohlsson (Metalite) on guest vocals, and is due for release today, on all digital platforms. The track is entitled “Lost Horizon”.

Morten Veland comments:

“I am proud and honoured to introduce Erica Ohlsson from Metalite as my special guest for The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions. The eighth song is entitled ‘Lost Horizon’, and is now available on all digital platforms.

“When I first started working on this project I was spending quite a lot of time looking for bands in the genre that was new to me. I was curious what was going on in the scene, and I finally had the time to update myself. One of the bands that I discovered early on was Metalite, I really liked their modern and catchy style of metal, and I was instantly blown away by Erica's amazing voice. I feel truly privileged and thankful to have Erica on board this project, and I am really looking forward to sharing this song with you all. This song is more of an uptempo song, I find it very powerful, atmospheric and catchy.”

Erica Ohlsson comments:

“I got the question to record the clean vocals for Morten Velands (Sirenia) studio project Mortemia. The song sounded very modern, melodic with a lot of energy, I liked it a lot so of course I wanted to join. With help from my Metalite colleague Edwin we recorded it and we are really happy about the result! It sounds awesome! Hope you like it as much as I do.”  

After 11 years of silence Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Morten Veland is once more active with his solo project Mortemia, this time with a brand new concept. ‘The Pandemic Pandemonium Sessions’ is a series of singles  released on a monthly basis, each song featuring a well-known and highly profiled guest singer from the metal scene, so far the following singers has contributed: 

Madeleine Liljestam (Eleine)
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Ayreon, MaYaN, Dark Horse White Horse) 
Alessia Scolletti (Temperance, ERA)  
Liv Kristine (Liv Kristine, ex-Theatre of Tragedy, ex-Leaves Eyes)  
Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum, The Dark Side of the Moon)
Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers)
Maja Shining (Forever Still)
Erica Ohlsson (Metalite)

(Morten pic – Angst Im Wald / Erica pic – Mats Vassfjord)