Progressive rockers Sigur Ros have announced they will release a new album this year. Called Kveikur (and pronounced ‘kwayker’) it’s due out in June on 4AD and the trio promoted it over the weekend by playing their first television performance in over a decade.

The Icelandic band’s new album Kveikur is reportedly more aggressive and darker than their previous offerings, and while the follow-up to last year’s Valtari won’t arrive until June 18 in the United States, we now have an epic eight-minute video on our hands to sample what’s in store.

“ Sigur Rós have been a somewhat common namedrop for metal bands looking to show their softer side, and it’s not that much of a stretch. Though their earliest work constitutes some of the most beautiful and ethereal music of the past two decades, Ágætis Byrjun and ( ), are heavy records with doom-friendly song lengths and tempos. “Brennisteinn”, then, is a big payoff in that regard. There’s an initial shock from hearing Sigur Rós, now a trio, reciprocating with the incorporation of fractious time signatures, clanking percussion and detuned, tremor-inducing guitars that more typically serve as a backdrop for scorched black-metal howls rather than Jonsi’s typically glistening, ascendant vocals.”

Via Pitchfork 

Directed by Andrew Huang , who has also worked with Björk, the clip is an abstract, sacrificial study into the relationship between nature and man, and the track itself suggests this album may be a more industrial outing for the band. The video is very intense and the scenes are alternated by different colored frames.

More about Sigur Ros here, here and here.