Band History

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Dzö-nga [zone-ga] is a blackened folk metal band formed in 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. The project draws inspiration from folklore and mythology to create genre-blending epics, imbuing a Cascadian black metal sound with classical music flair. After raising eyebrows with debut release Five Treasures of Snow, songwriter Cryvas brought in vocalist Grushenka Ødegård to record the project's first LP, The Sachem’s Tales. Picked up by renowned label Avantgarde Music, Tales earned Dzö-nga an international following with its fresh take on folk and atmospheric metal.

In 2018, Dzö-nga expanded into a touring lineup with musicians from respected Boston-area projects including Hemlok, Blind Revision, Age of Embers, and Ice Giant. Its follow-up album Thunder in the Mountains was made over the next two years, recorded on an 18th-century farm in the forest of Connecticut. Entrusted to a production team including Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar) and Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Opeth), the album was released in February 2020 and garnered universal acclaim, with several magazines and websites citing it as among the year’s best black/folk metal albums.

Dzö-nga embarked on its first semi-national tour in May 2022, co-headlining with black metal band Laang from Taiwan, and followed with summer festival appearances at Maryland Folk Metal Festival and RPM Fest.