Gösta Berlings Saga – Forever Now (Pelagic Records, 2025)
Swedish progressive rock innovators Gösta Berlings Saga have released their seventh studio album, Forever Now. Known for their fearless experimentation and genre-defying approach, the Stockholm-based quintet marks 25 years with an ambitious, self-produced, self-recorded, and self-mixed project.
The band recently shared the first single, “Through the Arches,” accompanied by a visually immersive video directed by Martin Gustafsson. Described by the group as “pure and amplified,” the track condenses GBS’s signature elements: melodic intensity, transfixing cosmic sounds, and rhythmic turbulence, into a concise and forceful statement of intent.
In a surprise move, Gösta Berlings Saga also released a trippy, trancy 19-minute live performance video for “Fragment I,” a non-album track that serves as a thematic and musical prelude to “Fragment II,” which appears on the new record.
Founded in 2000 by keyboardist David Lundberg and drummer Alexander Skepp, the band expanded with the additions of guitarist Mathias Danielsson and bassist Gabriel Tapper ahead of their 2006 debut, Tid Är Ljud. Drawing from psychedelia, jazz fusion, progressive rock, electronica, and the avant-garde, they have consistently defied classification.